Batesville Guard

Ernest Morris, the young Brazilian explorer, who lately made a remarkable expedition to the headwaters of the River Tapajos, has returned to New York from his home in Indianapolis, and intends to set forth again in a few weeks to renew his explorations. After entering the mouth of the Amazon he proposes to ascend its tributary, the Xingu. The Xingu, although one of the largest tributaries of the Amazon, is but imperfectly known to geographers, for no professed explorer has ever ascended it far, and the greatest part of our present information as to its character and the country through which it flows has been obtained from Indians or semi-civilized half-breed traders. Even the Jesuit missionaries, who have penetrated further than any other white men, have been deterred from its ascent by the chain of turbulent and dangerous rapids in its stream and the known ferocity of the dwellers on its banks.