Show colony of whites found in jungle ex explorer lorca describes trip into ecuador and peru I 1 new york indian wohlen women who their cli clicc ecks Ls noses nod hecth in a checkerboard rt ettin tin und indian kilell who believe tile dreams that cont to thina them while they hey tire arc winder under the in of a n certain drug portray their success or failure in battle liae ile the subjects of investigation inet by carl lestor lester liddle twenty six probably ano ono of the youngest joun gest in south america ile ho recently arrived in now new york and is litre here to catalogue ills in investigations vest iga t ions for nearly throe three months mr air liddle his has traversed tile jungles of tile the upper amazon amayon in quest of information for the government of ecuador and for tile the university of quito lie hid had no white companions chini inloes on ills his trip although tin an indian man mail provided lieux with a native escort vint numbered 50 60 it was into tho the vast aren known its as the oriente of founder ecuador and peru hat mr air liddles travels took him sometimes lie by canoe or dugout afoot often lie had to cross plains of mud and tit at other dilles lila ills course wound precariously over in 0 at nit an elevation of feet there tharo were beio dangers seen and unseen vampire hats bats attempted to suck euck ills blood lit at night insects beset lafin by b day and always there was aa the jungle tangle langlei find whites far in interior twelve days dais journey from the outposts of civilization lives a c corn om munley of 1000 persons tie retain tho the pure spanish type with blond hair arid blue eyes mr air liddle says sas their lacunga ly Is that of tile tho indians lied and their habits ore arc similar for they live in leaf thatched huts lauts of split chanth paint they never have intermarried Inter married with tile the Ind indians folls lie ho says mr air liddle had a narrow espe escape from death when a native natho boy lie had photographed suddenly ly was seized with epilepsy rind and fill fell down own had tile lie explorer not administered liumes immediate 1 at relief the indiana w would havo ki killed 1 iel it him lie he said gradually lie he mode made ills way to the headwaters of the orinoco and into tho the country of 0 tho the bead hunters these delight in intertribal wars mr air liddle says sais it the war Is successful beal reducing fleitas follow the boned bonea iro ato extracted and the alio features are r reduced to file he size of an orange drug visions sway them but before they go into battle the explorer added they retire to the dream lint hut where they eat na n a powerful narcotic eliat produces weird dreams the dreinis become tho the prophecy of success or failure to them they will not steal they believe that any property cont contains a portion of tile tho owners spirit and that if they the this portion it will attack and kill hill them nt at night the maidens use the lie checkerboard pattern on oil licar their teeth which Is by flint on their cheeks abd noses but once they are married tin aal 11 in lins has four or ivo five wives tile wife pierces n liole in her und and inserts a 0 small bamboo stick mr liddle brought brou glit to new york for anil analysts lysIs and classification various kinds of poisons used by tile indians Ind lans these anro nil of vegetable substance lie says but lio lie believes some bonie of then tire itro unknown to amerlean american chemists air liddic expects to return to south Ain america erlea in two weeks und and will inako a new trip into peru ieru to study ol iother tribe ot of indians and later will ill visit tile alie kunas in panama Ian arua lie ile Is a graduate of the culver naval academy and a native 0 of ohio lie ile served lit in tile navy on various line ships during the war and received ills his commission as ensign on oil ills his twenty first birthday |