Some Account of the Geology of the Lake Albert Rift Valley

Abstract

it was not true that the only good Indian was a bad Indian ! Dr. Rice found that there was something to be done with our Indians, and that they were very good factors in the development of our natural resources, and that the Indians in the forests of Brazil have been the pioneers of our civilization in that northern and inhospitable land of the valley of the Amazon. Dr. Rice took his wife with him on his exploration of the Rio Negro. Brazil has been explored by foreigners, and we owe gratitude to them for realizing that we were a land of the future. Mrs. Hamilton Rice brought to the Amazon, in order to show that there was something to be done with our Indians, the elements of tuition and furniture for a school. That is known in Brazil, and the names of Dr. and Mrs. Rice are remembered there as philanthropists who did not send simply, but went them? selves to see what could be done for those poor little souls who only needed teaching in order to be ready for the tasks of civilization. This is the most I can say to express to Dr. Hamilton Rice my gratitude, as representative of Brazil, for what he has done for the knowledge of Brazil in America and in Europe. The President : You will like me to congratulate Dr. Rice upon the resource and enterprise he has shown in fitting out this expedition, and especially on the tact he showed in getting his men together and contented, and the remarkable way in which he looked after them in preserving them from every kind of fever. He has also shown that very important and desirable trait in a good traveller, of establishing good feeling with the people of the country through which he passed. On all these accounts we desire to con? gratulate Dr. Hamilton Rice, as well as on a very excellent map he has brought back, which will be published in our Journal; and we also congratulate Mrs. Rice on the splendid way in which she backed trp her husband.