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I
should
wish
to
place
upon
record
here
our
gratitude
to
all
our
friends
upon
the
Amazon
for
the
very
great
kindness
and
hospitality
which
was
shown
to
us
upon
our
return
journey
.
Very
particularly
would
I
thank
Senhor
Penalosa
and
other
officials
of
the
Brazilian
Government
for
the
special
arrangements
by
which
we
were
helped
upon
our
way
,
and
Senhor
Pereira
of
Para
,
to
whose
forethought
we
owe
the
complete
outfit
for
a
decent
appearance
in
the
civilized
world
which
we
found
ready
for
us
at
that
town
.
It
seemed
a
poor
return
for
all
the
courtesy
which
we
encountered
that
we
should
deceive
our
hosts
and
benefactors
,
but
under
the
circumstances
we
had
really
no
alternative
,
and
I
hereby
tell
them
that
they
will
only
waste
their
time
and
their
money
if
they
attempt
to
follow
upon
our
traces
.
Even
the
names
have
been
altered
in
our
accounts
,
and
I
am
very
sure
that
no
one
,
from
the
most
careful
study
of
them
,
could
come
within
a
thousand
miles
of
our
unknown
land
.
The
excitement
which
had
been
caused
through
those
parts
of
South
America
which
we
had
to
traverse
was
imagined
by
us
to
be
purely
local
,
and
I
can
assure
our
friends
in
England
that
we
had
no
notion
of
the
uproar
which
the
mere
rumor
of
our
experiences
had
caused
through
Europe
.
It
was
not
until
the
Ivernia
was
within
five
hundred
miles
of
Southampton
that
the
wireless
messages
from
paper
after
paper
and
agency
after
agency
,
offering
huge
prices
for
a
short
return
message
as
to
our
actual
results
,
showed
us
how
strained
was
the
attention
not
only
of
the
scientific
world
but
of
the
general
public
.
It
was
agreed
among
us
,
however
,
that
no
definite
statement
should
be
given
to
the
Press
until
we
had
met
the
members
of
the
Zoological
Institute
,
since
as
delegates
it
was
our
clear
duty
to
give
our
first
report
to
the
body
from
which
we
had
received
our
commission
of
investigation
.
Thus
,
although
we
found
Southampton
full
of
Pressmen
,
we
absolutely
refused
to
give
any
information
,
which
had
the
natural
effect
of
focussing
public
attention
upon
the
meeting
which
was
advertised
for
the
evening
of
November
7th
.
For
this
gathering
,
the
Zoological
Hall
which
had
been
the
scene
of
the
inception
of
our
task
was
found
to
be
far
too
small
,
and
it
was
only
in
the
Queen
's
Hall
in
Regent
Street
that
accommodation
could
be
found
.
It
is
now
common
knowledge
the
promoters
might
have
ventured
upon
the
Albert
Hall
and
still
found
their
space
too
scanty
.
It
was
for
the
second
evening
after
our
arrival
that
the
great
meeting
had
been
fixed
.
For
the
first
,
we
had
each
,
no
doubt
,
our
own
pressing
personal
affairs
to
absorb
us
.
Of
mine
I
can
not
yet
speak
.
It
may
be
that
as
it
stands
further
from
me
I
may
think
of
it
,
and
even
speak
of
it
,
with
less
emotion
.
I
have
shown
the
reader
in
the
beginning
of
this
narrative
where
lay
the
springs
of
my
action
.
It
is
but
right
,
perhaps
,
that
I
should
carry
on
the
tale
and
show
also
the
results
.
And
yet
the
day
may
come
when
I
would
not
have
it
otherwise
.
At
least
I
have
been
driven
forth
to
take
part
in
a
wondrous
adventure
,
and
I
can
not
but
be
thankful
to
the
force
that
drove
me
.
And
now
I
turn
to
the
last
supreme
eventful
moment
of
our
adventure
.
As
I
was
racking
my
brain
as
to
how
I
should
best
describe
it
,
my
eyes
fell
upon
the
issue
of
my
own
Journal
for
the
morning
of
the
8th
of
November
with
the
full
and
excellent
account
of
my
friend
and
fellow-reporter
Macdona
.
What
can
I
do
better
than
transcribe
his
narrative
--
head-lines
and
all
?
I
admit
that
the
paper
was
exuberant
in
the
matter
,
out
of
compliment
to
its
own
enterprise
in
sending
a
correspondent
,
but
the
other
great
dailies
were
hardly
less
full
in
their
account
.
Thus
,
then
,
friend
Mac
in
his
report
:
THE
NEW
WORLD
GREAT
MEETING
AT
THE
QUEEN
'S
HALL
SCENES
OF
UPROAR
