Show EXPLORER IR TELLS OF ATTACK BY CANNIBALS I c- c s r II I II I 7 1 S taP ww I a rr r I 1 i I II 4 h 4 1 1 f Y r e 1 f i W r s a. a y y a A I 0 1 0 l 1 i ir r r r t 1 I 1 1 j I 1 1 Dr U Alexander Hamilton ton inn and rile Rice nIce I I New York Details Tork-Details Details of or an attack upon him and his party by a a. tribe of ot mountain savages aGes In tho the wilds of or South America were told by Dr Alexander Alexander Alex Alex- ander Hamilton Rice an explorer on his return to New York recently I Dr Rice who was accompanied b by his wife formerly Mrs Irs George D. D Widener Wid- Wid I ener of or Philadelphia said ho believed j I tho the cannibal savages who charged upon mm and a little party part of or which I his wIre wife was not a a. member were n. n h V I i He lie said this tribe is feared b by all allI I l I other tribes of ot the poisonous wilderness wilder wilder- j II ness and that they were last reported j I by a a. band of ot Spaniards In 1763 Then the they attacked the adventurous Spaniards Span Span- I lards in about the same spot that they charged upon Dr Rico and his com com- Dr Rico Rica said that he had left Mrs I Rice who had been further into darkest dark dark- est eat South America than any other white hite woman at Esmeralda the base base- j I for tho the expedition which was collectIng collect collect- ring Ing Ing specimens for tor or tho the Peabody mu mu- 1 scum eum and finishing fInishing- mapping the the- Rio I Negro tributaries of ot the Amazon the I canal an and the upper Ori Orl- noco fIOCO I In the party were Chester A A. Ober Obert 29 29 photographer of the expedition Lye Lyo Fuentes Puentes 21 U n a Venezuelan seven se natives and Dr Rice 00 Sn n t Suddenly The They were In nill miles s e east cast 1st of ot Esmeralda when on January Januar 21 1 at p. p pm p.m. m. m they thoy pitched camp beside the tho river The They were just sitting down to a a. meal when one of ot the Indians pointed d to a a. naked figure figure fig fig- ure skulking In the tho undergrowth The only weapons In the party were a rifle a shotgun and a a. revolver with revolver wita with wit witha h a limited amount of ammunition Dr Rice fired tired a bullet over O the head bead d of ot the savage Immediately about two hundred savages sprang Into view The They were unusually tall and ver very y strongly built and ranged In complexion com con from dark brown to fair lair They were armed with spears six and andone an d one one half feet teet long ong and with bows an and d arrows Brandishing these weapon weapons thc they raised a great howling Jumping and dancing about and coming comins- continually continually con con- clo closer er to the little band o of f explorers The latter plainly could coul d see ee the they wore tiger claws In their thel y lower lips Dr Rice and others of his party part tried to talk to them In four tour different t dialects of or tho the countr country the country the the Bare th the a MaquI the Tap and the Guanare Gua Gun I nare nare-In nare in an effort to make friends But the wild men kept advancing ad I toward the encamped group still 1 howling and rolling their ej eyes s. s Shot Shots Them Thrice When he hc felt tell there was to do do Dr Dr- Rice gave o the order to fire Several savages fell tell at the tho first vol vol- Ie ley The others disappeared But within a short time they appeared again aln charging toward the explorers Another volley olley was fired tired More savages savages sav sav- ages dropped Again the attackers fell back They made one more advance More shots were fired Into their massed masse L formation And then they dis dis- I appeared The exploring part party hastily broke camp and got sot Into canoes and started toward their base But for four da days 8 and nights as lS the they paddled down the I stream tream arrows fell about th them m from concealed enemies and threatening shouts reached their ears earl The They were ere e glad to get back Dr DI Rice who who- has man many decorations decoration s for his explorations in South America w I. I which have occupied him during nineteen nine teen years ears and havo have taken him o over or r hundreds of or thousands o of square miles of ot hitherto unmapped wilderness said that the tho are a mountain tribe shunned and feared b by all other na na- na tives thea Their nearest neatest neighbors are artl the Maqui miles to the tho west |