South America

              1923
RAY - Railroads begin Cleveland, end Chicago
$100.00 per week
Mar. 4 to end of season.
SOUTH AMERICA

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Dr. Ray in Gaucho Costume


By
Dr. G. Whitfield Ray
F. R. G. S.




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Dr. G. Whitefield Ray. F.R.G.S.-Through Five Republics on Horseback




Dr. G. Whitfield Ray, F. R. G. S.
Explorer, Author, Lecturer

Fifteen Years In South America
DR. RAY is known to scientific men as the Livingstone of South America.  To the literary world he is known by his book, Through Five Republics on Horseback.  This book is now in its twelfth edition, having had a remarkable sale.

Dr. Ray is English by birth, a cosmopolitan by instinct.  He was educated in London, Montreal, and Chicago.  Taught Spanish in the college of Argentine.  Served as special correspondent for the Buenos Ayres Herald.  For a number of years was official explorer for the Bolivian government.  On a private expedition of exploration into the interior of Paraguay he discovered the Caingwa Indians, who had never before been visited by a white man.  He spent some months with them, living on serpents, parrots, monkeys and other Indian delicacies.



Adopted Into Indian Tribe
HE was adopted by this strange tribe of savages and named Wanganpangapthlingithma.  By this method he became thoroughly conversant with their government, customs, strange religious rites and ceremonies.  He found that the old men and women of this tribe were usually buried alive.  No family was permitted more than two children, the witch doctor killing the others shortly after birth, the insignia of his office being, The Club of Death, with which he executed the unfortunate children.

Not only in Paraguay, but in the dark forests of Brazil, Argentine, Uruguay and Bolivia, Dr. Ray spent years of exploration among the savage Indians.  Adventures that have been the experience of few, if any, men in modern times became common occurrences with him.  Neither the wealth of educational matter he gathered nor the stories of personal adventure that befell him can be found in geographies, encyclopedias or text books.



His lecture, like his book, is called:
Through Five Republics on Horseback





Dr. G. Whitfield Ray, F. R. G. S.
His Lectures Are Great Successes
AFTER FIFTEEN years spent in explorations in South America, he returned to his own country.  Immediately he submitted the data of his travels to the Royal Geographical Society of England — was made a member of that noted group of scientists — and at once delivered a series of lectures before them and other noted people of England.  The largest halls of London were taxed to capacity to hear his simple but thrilling story of his fifteen years in darkest South America.  By geographers and men interested in scientific travel he is recognized as an authority on interior South America.

Later Dr. Ray lectured in Scotland, Ireland, Wales, Honolulu, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Alaska, Mexico and the United States.  In these lecture tours he carried with him Indian curios and relics that cost a king's ransom to collect.  The official club of death, the only one in civilization, and many other strange and weird tokens of savagery bedeck the stage from which he speaks.  On another page is shown a picture of how the platform looks when Dr. Ray is before an audience.

Dr. Ray dons the feathers, wields the club of the witch doctor and in the native tongue imitates the weird chants of the savages of Central South America.  He also speaks of the marriage customs, domestic life, peculiar dress, burial rites of these strange people and many other strange customs of these savages.  He believes these tribes are the direct descendants of the ancient Incas, and supports his theory with excellent reasons.

South America is the country of contrasts.  In Ecuador and Peru the mountains rise abruptly to a height of 15,000 feet.  Behind these are the snowcapped peaks, 20,000 feet high; and, behind all, the jungle, mysterious, unmapped, dark and gloomy, with secrets and witchcraftry and savage rites unthinkable to modern civilized man, practiced by many tribes of savages.

Mount Ray, one of the peaks in the mountains in the Republic of Brazil, was named after him by that government in recognition of his valued services for them, and the Bolivian government gave him a grant of land and made him a citizen.


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