text:  A goodly ship of substantial proportions is now preparing in a French port richly freighted for an interesting voyage with the products of French industry with destination for the great sea-river of the Amazons for navigating its thousands of miles of unploughed course and exploring those realms untold of those interminable wastes recorded and those numberless nations as yet unknown if existing which coast the vast expanse of its waters to the utmost limits of Brazil and the very confines of Bolivia Peru and Colombia