Report On Voyage of the U.S.S. Wilmington Up the Amazon River, Preceded By a Short Account of a Voyage Up the Orinoco River, 1899
Report On Voyage of the U.S.S. Wilmington Up the Amazon River, Preceded By a Short Account of a Voyage Up the Orinoco River, 1899
United States Bureau of Naval Personnel
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N. Commanding Officer U. S. S. Wilmington. U. S. S. Wilmington (Third Rate), Para, Brazil, May 6, 1899. Sir: I beg leave to submit this report on "Photographs and photographing," the special and only duty assigned me in your order of March 19, 1899. As this ship is not provided with photographic apparatus, efforts were made at Para to hire a camera and lenses, and, failing in this, to obtain the services of a photographer for the voyage up. None could be had, and the cost of a suitably sized ca...mera, lenses, and plates was much in excess of the amount of money ($125) allowed for all purposes. On arrival at Manaos, Brazil, unsuccessful efforts were made to hire or buy an outfit, but the services of Mr. F. S. Bassett as a photog- rapher were secured for the voyage from Manaos to Iquitos and from the latter to Para. Photographs of the city of Para, of the city of Manaos, of the uncivilized Indians of the Amazon, together with photographic plates and chemicals, were purchased. There is such a sameness in the scenery on the banks of the Amazon that although many plates were exposed and developed but few of them were considered suffici- ently interesting to print, and even these were subsequently reduced to a few typi- cal views of the rivers and passes, aside from photographs of the towns and .
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