Show A trip T crip full 0 of peril an attempt by a party of british at exploring the te mouth of the am j azon river SAVAGES BLOWN INTO PARADISE PA lea D I 1 S E throw throwing ang a fuse shell aiato a bed 0 sleeping C cyca cc odiles A jaguar kills a seaman I 1 was second mate of the tile british Brit ieli learner steamer forward during her two can of in 14 the tile mouth mouths of the amazon sit correspondent of if MID mip yew york Jork sun and no other held geld could 00 id hime bai boon boen elected selected to furni furn fth lith more mote lully dally we bad hail with ue us a botanist a photographer A i naturalist an artist and two outside civil engineer engineers who bo wanted the a ex peri ence anti our mission was to make a thorough exploration this WM was meant to enter every chanall where a steamer could float to take funding soundings to observe the tide tides currents biond ff als etc to r icord i cord the wast ing sawa of the bank banks changes of channel channels and a hundred other thi thinya algia the tiow ledge of which might bo be useful to the world at hie the timo time the forward set out there was strong talk of the british government gobbling up a big lice slice of the brazilian coast in paa payment ment of an tin old data claim for indemnity and I 1 ou suppose tho the first object in ale 1 v was to ace whether the white mail matt could stand the climate and do to bat business siness there and iid get an to idea ides of what he lie would I 1 ave to contend with the forward wae was a propeller tar car ried two six donad cannon as her armament and when loaded drew only five feet of water we had bail A crew ot 0 fourteen men were outfitted with everything ever thing which could be possibly used and were com convened ca ed from georgetown in british guiana by a it manof man of war end land a brig the latter larter loaded with supplies for us and under orders to anchor where our captain directed ud and remain as its a store etore ship and a daniev for us in CASE 1 or DISASTER I 1 do not suppose there is a geoge eo graphy phy or marine chart in existence which give the actual number of mouths of the amazon any attempt to lumc name them would be guess work in the flood good season the great river empties its muddy water waters over a coast seventy miles long and through twice as many channels and land in the dry one may be unable to find more than five or six channels channell islands are formed one mouth to be washed away the next where there Is a bluff ten feet high today to day here there w will ill be bothin nothing in sight arc br water tomorrow morrow w ve world could not raise enough cash wd laborec to straighten the stream and confine its iti outlet to wo one channel proa from what I 1 have read of equatorial tutorial africa I 1 should call it gardise para par dleo dise compared to what used to ibe be termed the spot of desolation I 1 tt we a line t f the equator crosses the tile mouth of tha amazon and as for lt L t no to white man could long endure it JL I 1 BW the thermometer murk mark from 11 12 to degrees for forace daj s at a time and blat wae was on the water with more muro of ae Stir stirring ir p the variety of insect insects which annoyed i IN at algat by biting blung wa was something oyer over wore acore at it times when we lay jay at anchor off a tangle jungle a puff of wind would bring euch such a duil cl of yoe that their bodice bodies would cover f t A white man ex exposed med to teem oa on diore could not bave lived an tin budr there tri tzi jele 11 lindlof Linda kind tor of P mankes along the asuan the largest crocodiles crooms in the world five give or elx SIX species of bealka which ahl a will attack maa man und sad kawg bow how many kind kinds et of uge bimo and id I 1 ant ants and worm worms which mako make life miserable the things we bad hail mod most to dread however wen were the jaguar the erpen native natives anil and the crow crocodile dile they seemed leagued against in us flow itow the tory start we hl bli a team steam 1 hunch and two baws awl for wham the essmer could not go and slid there were SIX iz of ul ill out in ili tho the one da 16 making ranking Mun Hoge ih a greet great lit atud d when a bouster inu crocodile rose to the surface close us u lunged forward and anti bad had ha hed head and ono one 19 over the can gunwale before an one saw him jm the engineer had a hatchet within mach slid with this he gare gave the reptile such A blow as made hi ili m draw off and stalk out of eight alie launch had scarcely righted hor him self nf however when a full dozen more of the ns rose to the attack wo we should have been cap cup sized and e eich er taw wan dourad sin nine a had we been in one of the 3 awls As it was waa we gedroc dro a ahead at tit full peed speed aud and outran them though some of them pursued us foi half a nille ulle ind wo we were dearly nearly swamped with the water iceo to the boat boal A few day lays later oud oua afternoon as the steamer came to anchor in a channel the anchor roust must have dropped among a bed bell of buering crocodiles tairi all about ue us hissing and splashing and unit the excitement brought up ot other herit until sixt six eror enormous big fel fellow lovis u were to bu be counted at one lime time they attacked the steamer with the utmost fura fur and sad while their efforts were bam ln less their struggles rocked her AS if alie was at train orain in a gale A fuso shell was prepared pi in a keg together with three poun dounda dept pt loose powder and the keg was thrown it had bad drifted feet astern bebe o they saw it and anti made a rush they had it about file me feet under water when the explosion came and a full dozen of the eaurl ans must bat haie e been killed kille db b it it wa nearly a it month after that before another one came about the steamer and anti it looked to us its as f couriers had been sent up and an al down with the new nowa that we were an enemy to be avoided on another occasion one of these monsters did lid us a good turn tum I 1 bad had charge of ono one yawl which was sounding a channel the meo men at the oars were pulling slowly against the current ren while the one handling the lead was casting and calling out when eipl came adart a dart from froma a blow gan gnat passing fust just over our heads we knew what it was from the sound it made but we could not tell from whence it came either shore was too far off of for a dart to reach us over oyer our ow starboard bow as we pulled ahead was a long thin tongue reaching cut fro from in the right hand shore and ending la in a pile of driftwood thie this tongue had been treated created by drifting trees grounding on the bottom ald the slit alit collecting to make a bar I 1 stood up la in the boalt and took a iola look but could ace nothing I 1 onelia to have been beep able to detect iven even a ball abbit an y where on that tongue or antt As there was no bushes but nothing whaler er was in eight sight I 1 was in 10 the act of titling sitting down almost satisfied that we bad had all been im deceived deceiT cd when u second arrow whisked so clewe to my cheek that I 1 thought s z bird had hul darted for my eye A CLOSE CALL air sir and it was a poisoned dart at chiti 31 said id one of the men ws I 1 dropped back into my ray beair tho infernal internal wretch must IA in that driftwood though I 1 cant am him biml I 1 added the man with thu the 0 lue we held the boat a stationary sad and prepared to signal to the steamer which was a lalle mile below when all of a sudden a fifteen foot crocodile landed on tho the tongue of ot land and began crawling toward the driftwood ile I 1 bad had just reached tho the pile when a dative who bad had been skillfully concealed rose up with a cry of despair lie had a reed or blowgun IH lit ill lili ham hand anil and lie made frankio motomi to U a to tj ave save him wo we wore were what to ilo the crocodile made a bulb ilsoo him out of the pile anil slut followed after to catch him in the water As wo we sw iw nothing pt of the man after that wo we felt positive of lid ills Ilar horrible fate though wo we bil had no sympathy to anlo perhaps nol no ianace ia ace of the deatrus dea truo tivo power of A it six lz can bo be recorded I 1 match the ono one I 1 am sin about to relate we about forty miles above the sea and hail como to auar about pistol hot shot from tho sarc which WM was hero here en entirely tirel dear clear of hushes bu glie chiti we were greekie by a flight of arrow arrows ami and ilaria from a grove over oyer our port quarter we knew know from froin tile num erous missiles that there them must bo at least fifty 11 there they 14 1 not waited to eco sea win who wo were or what we wanceil wan teil but had hail bent seat out it challenge to battle before our anchor waa wa fairl fairly buried in to the land is e our mission was wa one of peace we sheltered shel terud und and made no reply for sometime this simply uie the fellow fellows who doubtless some war party part pawing passing up or down and mey shot so u many arrow arrows and darta into the steamer et eainer that her port side literally bristled with them it wa was at length de titled to teach them a lesson and the captain ordered the ox 1 on that side cast ct louse and land loaded with abell shell this wa was done under cover of a screen provided ded for or tho purpose and when all was ready the gun was aimed at the center of the groveland grove and fired one loud load long wall followed the ex ard then we heard oo 00 more of the natice an hour later when we landed to secure pome wild fruit we found fourteen dead and da dying ing natives all tho the work of that one til i liell lell which bad exploded in fn the midst of the crowd in this case too the newa news seemed to bo be spread wah great rapidity for we were not annoyed again for mouths THE JAGUAR of the amazon la Is also called a cougar a puma and i a panther pan and be he seems to be one and the same beast no to matter what tho the ho ile is to lithe fierce and vigilant and an tin enem enemy to be dreaded by even the best armed man we often saw pumas on oil the shores or crouched in trees and now and then floating past us on drift drifting hig log 15 and their far reaching cries were always to be beard heard at night alt if it we lit lay within a mile of a jungle the only man we had killed ed iu in the two years met his fate at the hands of f a jaguar and under singular cir curn stances wo we bid imil wooded on the rigl alt l hand shore aid sad then paid out mr rope cable by which ire we were fast to a tree to be safe sare from a cave in during the nigh night the anchor watch for the night insisted of only one man relle relieved vod at intervals of four houie bouts the man who ent on at midnight bad been beer called on onty half an hour when a carein care cave in took pl phu A strip of the bank which was four f ft act t above water when we turned oto the river and land with it the tree to whick we were fast fasl the tree trea fell directly over the bows a of f the boat boa bat but only ita its top coming Abo aboard aral and that without doing much damage wo we heard the mane mans shouts of alzem but before any one had bad turned tamed out it was all over with witti him A jaguar bad had been hidden in the treetop tree top and as the tree fell be he came aboard with it and at 61 once cpr i upon the watch watchman nim lie ife bad had the man by the th throat roal and was backing his blood as we turned out and finished him we dr arrad thos th snakes more than all the rest as they were to be met ot with on the water as well as on the alton bj gi where jou tou would you could pot run amiss miss of them and every species seemed more inclined to fight than ran on one occasion occa ion we came to a beautiful fol ol 01 shore aud and the naturalist and botanist botan lct were from lay iny boat wal wo A j for them at ills bank under the shade fit ofa it great ims tree and no eoon awn a the ills boat wat wa was secure he 10 men tret did out oi tile thwart thwarts to simp I 1 hail brought alona aa floh line ad a R double barrel barret 0 bothun bothun not caring to a ilio tile gentle iasi in n their bialk acore th rc I 1 prom tiled to cat cast la in ui in hook look and oil wait awalt ten had cassed mul stiff we were nil till cry quiet when I 1 felt a auen followed tj iq A YELL ANU AND A on a limb ten feet oi er our heads a boa constrictor land been 1 ing he lie 1 the man 1 bing ing on oil the lio forward forwar I thwart for his victim and made a dart tor for him film that nit bid laid noor sten aahl bout 1 fora und and hu be mide it i mj cra natural mistake nils tako in ircink ing to i ewing swing a e coil cull around the sailor ho lie included ibo the 01 tort in hit gall it ava a moment of excite ment I 1 ou ean didgo of hie the lift lim 11 when I 1 all aou that bo he most lifted built nil 01 doar clear of tui ta waitr land the tb onla acison lio lie t pull u up till to the lie limb vas beca tise the thwart gu gate WB under the strain and hew gow up ae as it I 1 K it t from a springboard the idlor tilting t get aught but he be foil felt tile fold folds of the serpent beard heard a filee in bis his car nud nuil rolled overboard into the water the others leaped akhom and I 1 WM was left alone in tile stern of ut the boat with tile snake almost abut when the serpent that b he bada piece 0 of boina bo ird in n bid his coil lik instead steAd ot of a live ilya sailor be he let it drop imp and allegan looking about for another victim the sailors called to uio we to burry ashore but I 1 knew that ho lie would dropati drop ou me if it I 1 made A movement to do so 0 o I 1 cocked ma in gun and held belt it reada to ore fire while the men anthore who could see him better than I 1 could kept mo il n formed of the serpents enVa cuta he ile crawl ed from frota branch to branch seemingly coref confused used bat but at length ho he camo came back to the former spot and mado made for a dart at me we I 1 got sight of bis his bead beat as I 1 a waved it to and anti fro and ry ty a lucka luck shot blew it to pieces with the heavy charge moat most of ats h is bod wd at once fell to the earth 1 I 1 ut bis his tail tall lad tail such a grip on the limb that four of us could not pull it loose he ile measure three feet long and eviden evidently tl had the muscular power to crush the largest ox at |