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Show r -. -t - , . t . i .LaA....- . ejcevr v w AfiAzon , AS full of thrills aa any story of polar exploration. Is tbe narrative of .1. Hamilton Rice, tbe medical scientific explorer ex-plorer who baa just got back from 17 months' of travel in tbe junglee about tbe headwatera of tbe Amazon. It waa tbe explorer's aeoond trip to South America. The party reached Bogota the latter part of January, Janu-ary, 1912, where preparations for tbe InUid expedition were completed. In telling of bis experiences Doctor Rice said: "la February, 1812. 1 sent $1' males with 1,200 pounds of freight bvef to San Martin, In the Andes, which I made my flrat base. Then, early In May, I followed with IS more inles, using tbe same route that I bad a; Joyed IS my journey of 1907 to tbe ao). At Vlllavicenclo, the first r east from Bogota, on the Uanoa, "r, ! 'alns, 1 made a stop, got good laii-- laii-- "'4IuJ l"5ttude, and laid ot tb tJJtKYj fir $ ttApi ; Tt)tt J 0B-f 0B-f nued o to Sea Martin. "Having spent two weeks taking ob-serrations ob-serrations to finish my work of five years ago, I found that Doctor Jera-mlllo, Jera-mlllo, tbe Commandante, was about to undertake a government expedition south In an attempt to reach tbe Messy Me-ssy a river, and I accompanied him as topographer and surgeon. We bad 26 oiti, consisting of caucberoa, or rubber rub-ber gatherers, and Indiana. Early in September a camp waa made on tbe fUo Illlla, a branch of tbe Uaupee. It waa necessary to cut a path through jungle, swamp and foreet River Full of Fish. "We found tbe Meaaya river teeming with all kinds of fish. I saw a man in one bour catch with a book and line ISO of ten different varieties, ranging from seven Inches to two feet in length. "I bad opportupnlty here to study tbe Hultoto Indiana. Tbey are very docile and never Intermarry. Naturally Natural-ly Intelligent tbey learn very rapidly. The Caiijona Indiana, on the other band, are much more fierce and warlike, war-like, and continually Intermarry. This nation baa been incited from time to time by tbe Peruvians to make war up-n up-n the peaceful Hultotos. "South of tbe Meaaya we discovered i chain of ragged, blgh bills, and spent more than a week In fdralng a passaxt ver them. Three weeka more were consumed In working south from there. Sometimes three miles were aa much is we could cover In a day. Tbe men ere worn down by hardships, tropical ilcers, and fever. Early in November hlngs began to assume aucb a critical tspect that Jaramillo, at my suggee-lon. suggee-lon. reduced bis working force one-alf one-alf and established caches after tbe nanner of polar explorers. With sis ndlans and stx whites we advanced k tew days more, when tbe white men efuaed to go further. "We were In a dense forest, filled kith oaooe, or small streama. and wam pa. We bad to continually fell reee to get them out of the way. The raters were filled with rayaa, which nfllct terrible stings, causing ulcers, rbe food got scarce. Tbe Indians reused re-used to proceed, and two had to be haetlsed. Tbe party waa reduoed to ix. We had left behind everything at our Instruments and hammocks od ,the cutlasses, which were abeo-stely abeo-stely necessary to cut a way through he, jungle. Tbe rain poured down eavily all tbe time. Finally, on No-ember No-ember 12. we reached tbe AJaju liver t Its source. This was our definite oaL We made observations foriatt-' sde and longitude, christened the lace Puerto Mercedes, left records nder trees, and started back. "We were now without food, and de-ended de-ended upon meeting supplies which 'e had ordered to b nt from our ase. Sometimes we found a serawnv ion key, sometimes a bird, which far-tsbed far-tsbed the whole food sapply fnr s ay. Once I found a bur land tartl i a which we fessted for two davs j radually we threw away everything I icept our instruments. We grew ' weaker and weaker. Finally Castro, a giant whe bad been In the habit of carrying 160 pounds on bis back, cams down to motor aphasia. "However, we all got back to our base alive, there to find that all the party we bad left bad fled, except those who hadn't been able to get away because of raya wounds or sickness. sick-ness. AU tbe doge bad been killed by Jagsara. However, there waa plenty of food, and after two days' rest we went back to Illlla and reached Cala-mar Cala-mar In December. From Calamar I went back to my baae at San Jose, sending maps of the region traversed to the Royal Geographical society and to the Colombian government "Shortly after Cbrtstmaa, with two canoes and seven men, I started out from Tollma. Leaving tbe Cano Grands la January,' I descended for five days to the Rio Tnlrtda. rrom (bis point ! wo ascended the latter river, and on February I reached a beautiful water-faU water-faU over 100 r4 high, - whlca Is a . break between blgh precipitous bills running In a northeasterly and southwesterly south-westerly direction. Country Teeming Wrt Jagusrs. "It took two days to portage our big canoe around this fall, and five days more. were spent In tbe hardest kind of work, smashing our way through to tbe source of tbe Ynlrtda, which we reached on Sunday, February Feb-ruary 16. Three days later ws began to descend to tbe river. The country on both sides teems with jaguars, tapirs ta-pirs and anacondas, and the river Is filled with rsyas. Tbe tapirs were so tame that tbey swam around our canoe curious and absolutely fearless. Some stood on the shore whistling at us. I shot a magnificent specimen of Jaguar, and found Inside of it a whole Uplr. "A curious feature of this region was that the Indians for the most part not only lived back from the main streama, but In tbe villages were found a great predominance of worn en, who, from all we could make out. were permanent Inbabltanta of tbelr respective settlements, while tbe males were transients. This brings to one's mind the question whether this may not be tbe district whence come the reports re-ports so well known on tbe Amazon fnr two centuries of the existence of a race of women living alone, except at stated periods. Concerning these legends le-gends both Alfred Russell Wallace and Richard 8pree, the eminent English traveler and scientist of more than three generatlona ago, have written. "By a Oualnia Indian I was taken to a settlement of Indians living back several hours' distance from tbe Papa-naua, Papa-naua, where I found a very Intelligent native wbo spoke tbe TuplGuaranl language, which would make It seem that here waa tbe dividing line between be-tween tbe nation of that name and tbe Cartba. Tbe Papanaua Indians travel from tbelr river to the upper Icsna. and have a well-made path nine miles In length, which crosses elevated land flanked on tbe east and west by enormous enor-mous tmpaswable swamps and lagoona By doing a lot of medical work I got this old Indian's good will, and be entered en-tered my service, "All tbe Indians of tbe Icsna are polyg amlsU. As I bsve said, tbe women wom-en greatly outnumber tbe men. The ' .natives of the Uaupm region are mono- ' gamoos. In certain portions of the ' Iran country are also to be found the ' so-called Indlos bravos.' wbo are some- 1 times hostile and always dangerous." 4 " Theughtfut J Mrs. Bscon -This paper ways that ; geclcglsts bsve fouad near Casper. Wo. a skeleton of a pterodactyl Mr. lUcoo I wonder If It caa be . possible If any of our neighbors lost one of them? j Not Always a Twe-Btep. One should play the music of differ- ( rnt moods tbe serious, the tender, the gsy. the sorrowful, tbe tragic Ma- 1 sle la the srtlstle expression of life, and life la not always a two-step. |