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Show SURGEON-EXPLORER TELLS WEIRD TALE Iyonrlon, Nov 3 D, Hamilton Rke. the American surgeon and traveler, has just arrived in lxindoii, after twenty-one months' exploration In southeast f'olombia and northwest Brazil, whore he traversed about 100,000 square miles of almost unknown un-known territory. During his travels Dr. Rice was attacked with poisonous ulcers anJ compelled to operate by candlelight. Injecting cocaine and cutting his leg to the bone The operation took two hours, and although tills occurred nine months ago. the wounds are still unhealed "All of us." continued the explorer were practically starving, and we were reduced to one meal of monkey per day. Continuous thunderstorms thun-derstorms made our retreat a perfect per-fect nightmare Presently the rain stopped and myriads of ants, bees and mosquitoes came out and further tortured us " In one region Dr Rice found a race of very' light-colored Indians, "by no means white, but much paler than the ordinary Amazon tribes." These are known as Andoques. Their villages are shunned by their neighbors |