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Show EXflBK PARTY ems 10 1 S, Giant - Cannibals Attack Explorers Ex-plorers Near Banks of- the Orinoco NEW YORK, May 11. The exploring explor-ing party headed by Dr. Alexander Hamilton Rice, which clashed last February near the banks of the Orinoco Or-inoco with giant cannibals, returned hero from Para on tho steamer Alban. Arriving with Dr. Rico wore Mrs Rice. Chester H. Ober, Georgrapher of the expedition; A. Yv. Swanson, J. E. Mason and Dr. E. E Beyers. While exploring an unnamed tributary tribu-tary of tho Orinoco river, Dr. Rice's party was attacked by wild Indians. They discharked firearms to scare off these savages who were described as large and very fierce. The explorers only escaped, it was said, by firing-into the savages, killing cither two or three. The party on the advice of tho guides then turned back. Woman in Jungle. Mrs. Rice was not with her husband on this particular occasion. Howoyer, she traveled with the party as far as Esmerelda, Brazil, penetrating further into the Amazon wilderness than any other white woman, according to the explorer. During the trip the Rio Negro and other outlets of tho Amazon wero explored ex-plored and charted, as well as the Cas-quiare Cas-quiare canal and the upper Orinoco, Dr. Rice said. A number of specimens speci-mens were brought back by tho explorer ex-plorer for the Peabody Museum at Harvard University. 'Cannibals Attack. "The cannibals who attacked the party wero almost white in color," Professor said. "In all my years in the tropical jungles I havo never seen such ferocious looking savages. Nearly all wero armed with bows and arrows arid carried spears and blow guns. These men were more than 6 feet tall and I recognized them as cannibals of the Guariboe tribe, a mountain legion le-gion considered the most ferocious of all the savages in either Venezuela, Colombia or Brazil." The professor declared ho believed it was the first timo these cannibals wero met by whito men since 1873, when a exploring expedition discovered discov-ered them. |