WCP3504

[1]

Old Orchard,

Broadstone,

Wimborne.

August 28th. 1908

Messrs Macmillan & Co.¹

Dear Sirs

I now return the Map of the "Red Bark Region" with the additional places mentioned by Spruce,² and with all his routes in Red. This will ^partly make up for the deficiencies of the other Maps. I want a revise of this with the routes &c.

I also return the "General Map" with two corrections of names — (1 correction 1 new[?]) "Idapa" puzzled me for a long time, but it is clearly "Siapa" of the old Map & which Spruce confirms. "Pacimoni" must be inserted — then it can be printed off.

[2] Then there is the new Rio Negro Map — (the old Society Map corrected.) In this the River Cunueunúma[?] is written but the river itself not inserted — the red line being put on a tiny stream above the mouth of Cassiquiare.

I return my old Map (sent before) showing that I had marked the position clearly, and I should have thought none but an idiot could have put it wrong.

It seems as if it were impossible for them to go right.

The river Pacimoni is drawn ^{shown in the Soc.[iety] Map} as nearly a straight line — In the other map (rejected by you) it was much better shown, as being exceptionally winding. I sent you at first, [3] Spruce's large scale Mss. — Maps of the "Cuneunúma" and the "Pacimoni" Rivers, which no one but Spruce has, to this day, ascended, much less mapped.

I intended them to be used for this Cassiquiare route map, at least so far as to make the river look something like what they are. But I really do not like this work of Spruce's to be entirely thrown aside.

If the sheets of the Pacimoni Map were laid together on a large table ^{(as I did before sending off)} they could be easily reduced to the size of a page either by using squared [4] paper, by a pentagraph, or by photography.

They would then show what he had done and be of use to future explorers. These Maps have been mentioned with approval by the President of the Linnaean Society — by Sir C. Markham³ & others, & it will be expected that they shall appear in some form in the book.

Yours very truly | Alfred R. Wallace [signature]