Show 1XSECTS AS QUAlmS PRICELESS NUOOETS OUAIIDED UY MOSQUITOES fAe tnert tetra ttbrkrn huIInl Iho teprnayIildden ialltee thi In eland the llorrllle I 1003111 Vl Torture Oll IN IlHNTV < 1 fff V > may be found In TorlurG lie sands of the i > If G Voiiior rivera r irlUt < stream of moderate CJ volume lust comes i tumbling I from the I uow line of the I l Sierra de I SI Martha I In I South America but It l though the lowland region and the river bed 1 where the prerlou metal abounds In fabulous quantities are really accessible the mowiulloM are so thick and terrlblo there that all attempts to rifle the ssnds of their gold have to for failed Elites Ueclin tho celebrated trench geographer was the first to explore Ihe plain about the Volodora mouth H I seemed like an earthly paradise nt ant and Ibo stinging Insects were no moN numerous than one might have expected fiat as the rainy mason came on and tho air grow hot and humid 100 motqultoo appeared < In Incredible In-credible swarms M Keclus had thought of establishing an aRrlcullurnl colony In the fertile lowlands but found Iho plague of meets so unbearable unbear-able that he was forced lo beat a retreat re-treat I and abandon tho project Ill was the discoverer of this wonderful won-derful stream whoio waters sweep over sands that are literally golden He told the news lo the French Vice Consul at Itlo dacha and this official obtained the concession of this Ktdo ratio The dangers ho was lo encounter he knew perfectly welt Ho look with him when ho set out nn Ingeniously constructed gauze tent of largo dimensions di-mensions Ior two days he tried lo lire under Us shelter and watch the operalon of his workmen who tolled In the mining heat clothed In thick garments and protected by heavy been gloves and veils At the end < of Ibe second day however both employer employ-er and < employee with one accord gavo np the clrurclo antI retreated Tin next lo Iry lo wring fortune from hero nurlferoiu siniU wns nn Italian who obtained permission from the VlroConsul referred lo above Tho Italian laughed at the Idea of mosquitoes mosqui-toes driving anyone away from n place where gold could bo picked up utmost by the handful He started out with parly of six who shared with him his belief nml ao they look along no tpe rlsl protection against Ibo meets They endured for less than halt an hour the awful torturo and then fled They found their way back lu IUD Itnchn with difficulty for Ihe CM ot ftvo were ao badly swollen that they wi > ro blind Tho sixth was n sight to beh liI1111 he had to pick out the pathway with tho aid of one eye which Iho moaqulloes had not entirely closed Yet there nro liuinim bulnga who can vcnturo with Impunity Into this hell tthooo xunnllin demons aro mosquitoes mosqui-toes nod these are some of the savage mauves of Iho mountain from whose rocky sleepi Ibo river comes tumbling down These savages who arc mosquito mosqui-to proof aro rendered so by their bodies bclnit covered with Ibo scales of hot awful dlieil leprosy StranRo lo say tho mosquitoes will not touch them llut neither Raid nor the Raudi of clvlllzallon will tempt thorn to labor and there Is I no human power apparently appar-ently which will draft them from their rude cures on thou mountain sldo and make them labor lor thn white menU men-U Is nn old and true saying that ono mliht as well Iry to net along without turn In the arctic regions at without jiiosqullo nnU In the tropics Mosquito nets seem to have been of little avail however In the Instanced related Tho Inoccts arc said lo have been both unusually un-usually largo and nnuiually vcnomout nod they came In such myriad that they had the nppenranco ot a mist hanging over the waters of the river Tho liitcnira pain and action of the poison on Ibo e > ilcm speedily drive the stropRest mad Ono of tho favorite tortures nmcnc the natives of the region about tho volley vol-ley of Iho Volador Is I to strip their victim vic-tim null bind him naked to u stake In a moment his body will bo literally covered with moiqultoes nnd In n half hours time It will bo rnormouily swelled The torture Is I Indescribable |