18 MARCH 1922, Page 24

The Hakluyt Society has issued to its members the long-lost

Journal of the Travels and Labours of Father Samuel Fritz, translated and edited by Dr. George Edmundson from a manu- script which he found at Evora in 1902 while searching for evidence bearing on the boundary dispute between British Guiana and Brazil. Fritz was a Jesuit missionary who between 1686 and 1723 worked among the remote tribes of the Upper

Amazon. below the eastern slopes of the Andes. He was troubled less by savage natives and an exhausting climate than by the bitter hostility of the Portuguese, who were always raiding the mission-stations and enslaving the converts. The journal is a record of self-denying labour, and it is. of no small importance for the history of exploration in a region which is still but imperfectly known.