The explorer is merely the most adventurous kind of field geographer; and there are two or three points worth keeping in mind in dealing with the South American work of the field geographer and field zoologist.

The explorers and lumberers generally are all hirelings, paid so much a day for their labor, and as such they have no more love for wild nature than wood-sawyers have for forests.

When asked why they did not bring more considerable quantities of gold from that country, the Spaniards answer that miners are required, and that the explorers of the new countries are not men inured to fatigue.

Her explorers were the bravest, her traders the most enterprising and single-minded, her factors and partners the most capable and potent in all the world.

" Most African explorers have been painstaking, conscientious workers, eager in their quest for the truth, desirous to report nothing but the truth, and treating the lowly and ignorant they have met as men, with sensibilities like their own, capable of gratitude for a kindness and keenly sensitive to an outrage.

Her explorers were the bravest, her traders the most enterprising and single-minded, her factors and partners the most capable and potent in all the world.

The first modern explorer of the territory was a Spaniard, followed a few years later by English sailors.