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Show Wu r7 NI N E MAN INVASION c BRAZIL Tuir . - R0;D 6y Onr o"V Afei Who Took Part In an Adven- 'v) JJture That Reads Like Extravagant Fiction Desperate ' Fighting. Perilous Flight and Memorable Capture V : .'. ; Gordon. 2- Hubert GcoT : tf ': ' :Ff Wfe Wilson. 5-Scbastino de Magali. P fe;' . Pt . MtlJ'Ql MJ 6-Samucl Richard Parker. Jr 7-Cecil vWh-V0M W$&&? Lui7 Affonso de Carvalho. I T ' - A croup pounced on Borer and hc had hoM his rifle and wWle he was scuffling a fifth man faS V" " ---'l stabbed him in the side. : il- 'rHV-.V' rfH (....' , ' j Bridge Behind llheos the aiuuiuiiltl'ii " I cinijlit up two belts anil plunged out nmnnsr tbo treos with tin; others. I'fauueborker had lu'cn standing jrunrd wLou suddenly, sud-denly, about fifty rods In front f him, a whistle sounded In the bush and a lovro of five hundred men lenped cut. Ilnnnlns; bnekward and 5rlnt; hN revolver Into thni he actually held them In ehrck long enougrb to sound the alarm. The fuice was eom, osed of pursuers pur-suers fpHii Aguas i'rietoa and reinforcements from ilaeumba. Then began as desperate n tlht ns any man could wish to s;c Selecting individual positions behind trees or hummocks of earth, fern or fallen logs vre. opened tire on them and began marksmen's work. For a while we had things pretty much our ay until a part of the force worked around behind u. coming In from the other direction, and then disaster overtook us. Ilhcos. Brazil. 1 Where E?:pedition Landed. 2 Where Major Davis Fell. 3 Building from Which Government Troops Opened Fire. 4 Where Invaders Left the Town ji EY LIEUT. GEORGE H. VICE CPjrlsbt, 1010. by tbc New ork llcraM Co. All rlfbls rrwrTcd 1 IN all history there are few stories of more desperate endeavors than the one hereafter here-after related. Fragments of it have appeared in the newspapers during the period that has clapped since 1007, when nine reckless adventurers from New York and one Brazilian Portuguese invaded Brazil with a view to overthrowing over-throwing the government, but the full story i3 told here for the first time. Nothing could be more typical of the true spirit of adventure pure aud simple, and the reckless courage of the men is almost surpassing belief. Some of the Men We Fought lutlonists were bound Into the Interior. A gunboat and a Iuik? body of truops with despatched at once. IIitc aaln t hi Iirazlll.ins movcj too rapidly. We had proclaimed no revolution and onr actual status was iiK-rely that of a body of armed and uountel travellers of forelsii birth ami citizenship. The tropical r.iazlllau road is a terrible, terrible tiling When tin1 rains- seas. .n obtains it washes holes In the clav and In the dry season these ridges, ruts and plis bi'i-ome as haid us rock. It was oer such a track that we in nil- fast and furious for the next twenty-four hours. The Flight. We knew there would be pursuit and ther was but one hope to forgo our way as fast as possible into the interior. We were few In number, lightly equipped and therefore much more mobile than any military troop they could send nfter us. We rode till ten o'clock at nl'ht. w hen we struck a b!g town, which we learned was Aguas I'rletos, or the ttlack Falls of the Kio C'achocira. Announcing that we were on our way to an Interior plantation, we obtained rest and "efreshments, but blond stains on us and bullet .scratches on our horses alarmed the hotel keeper, and we left none too soon. To cross the river we were compelled o dismount, unsaddle un-saddle and swim our horses, v bile our a mis and equipment equip-ment wire taken over lu canoes. This proceeding was almost ns danuu'oii as tli;ljtiiiK. It was very fortunate. :ls I have hinted, that we left when wo did, for the commandant nt llheos was cun-uhur cun-uhur If not overcourugeou-s. He sent his cleverest ofllec-r In a well manned canoe up the river to the falls and that worthy landed very shortly after we were on our way Inland once more. Four stages more wo pressed ahead until men and horses. were nearly ready to drop from fatigue. The country was desperately wild In some places aud once wc heard the distant clangor of a drum. Movliic quietly we came upou a settlement of naked natives, who were holding an arrow dance, which we could tce through a gap lu the tropical growth. I'fannebeeker took a picture at lone range of the scene, which shows the character of the country perfectly. per-fectly. Through the little gap hi the jungle oue can see the natives In their ceremony, unobserved, as they believed. Makiug a detour we went on our way, coming com-ing again to a more civilized region, passing through n number of small tow us and reaching Macumba at last, where we were so tired that it was decided to rest. Our choke of camp was exceedingly poor. It was uu the level beyond the town In a Cocoa grove and was not at all a lighting position. The townspeople were very friendly and did not seem to notice Lhe 6lgns of the battle nt llheos We Inrned in at once for a good sound sleep. I'fannebeeker insisted on standing guard, though no one but him Imagined that there was any possible danger dan-ger from pursuit then We did not know that Magalli had left u declaration of the revolution In the city behind be-hind us, to be published after we hud crossed the river. This put us lu the field as revolutionists to all Intents and purposes and under the law laid us open to any loyal Brazilian's attack. There were two approaches to our camp, one from the east and one from the west, as the river was on the south and there was an impenetrable forest on the j north. j Awakened by Shots. , I was awakened by hearing shots and leaped to my r rltle. hejiritr,' Mapalll cry, 'Cvl Into the wood with 1 A group pounced on Hover and after he had shot two ot them two others got bold of his rltle and while he was scuflllng a lifth man stabbed him in the sjde and another one struck him a swinging blow with tho butt of n gun that mashed his face out of all recognizable recogniz-able shape. Parker and the Klnealds fought like demons until they were overwhelmed, one of the Kincalds breaking two men's nrins simply with blows. I was doing the best 1 could, but began to receive one wound after another, an-other, then a full charge from a slug loaded gun struck me and I fell with a total of forty-two wounds. Strange to say, though I was stabbed and shot In the abdomeii, was shot through both thighs, both arms were helpless and the bones of one wrist half shot away, I did not lose consciousness and remember cursing Pfaiine-livckcr Pfaiine-livckcr because the worst that had happened to him was a large number of bullet holes through his clotJied and a sprained wrist from knocking down lirazlleros. Jubilant Captors. When we were all under guard and disarmed the victors began a mad demonstration of Joy. Their braggadiM lo was laughable to see and they headed us straight back for Aguas Prietos. Not satisfied with the way In which they bad done us up, they tried to make me walk, but I could not. and then they forced my comrades to carry me, but that was an awful 1 ordeal for them and I chose to try to ride a horse without with-out a saddle. i Wounded as I was I stuck for twenty miles over the ! "ough roads and was then placed in a canoe, taken down the river to llheos arid eventually to the hospital of Santa Maria at liabia. I did not leave there till taken iu a stretcher to llheos for trial, which resulted In practical acquittal, though Itaron 'lo Hranco, Hra-zlllan Hra-zlllan Minister of War, appealed on hebalf of tho government, gov-ernment, lie succeeded lu getting a second trial, to , which 1 was not taken, so thrt I was not liberated until the spring of the present year, reaching New York uu May 8. It was a sorry crowd that was dumped Into the prison In the basement of the city hall at Ilbeos. ' Their different experiences would require much more space than I am allowed P. very one of them had ! been cruelly beateti and maltreated by the captors, who, once they had them disarmed, had mobbed them and tried to kill them. Magalli was buoly wounded lu both legs aud in the head. Two of the soldiers guarding the prisoners wcro shot by bullets aimed at the prlsouers. At Aguas Prietos the populace had received the "in-surrectos" "in-surrectos" with open arms. The fact was apparent I hut If the revolution had been declared before we left the story might have been u very different one. The ; fight we had put up made us friends on every hand aud during the two years and two days that they were f In Jail they were showered with gifts and attentions and lu tho second trial there was no difficulty whatsoever whatso-ever about their acquittal Parker became an engineer engi-neer on the new railroad bull. ling In the State of P.ahla. I'fannebeeker will return to the country to assume as-sume an excellent position. The Klncnids are olT adventuring ad-venturing elsewhere. Magalli is Insane and there is un end of the story. One interesting thing i.s the hero that the people ; made of Magalli. Things were numed for him as Ihey were named for Trilby lu the ..rllby craze in merica. One of the new stores that was christened, is South Americans christen their places of business, ins "licpubllcn Magalli- u big letters on the wall of t. lie. poor fellow. Is Jn 110 condition to enjoy bls elebrlty and It will be a long time before I tnysetfj an move without wrem-hing a w.miwled patl. A P ONI! of us knew in the beginning, and those of 9 j us left alive have no know ledge now, of just j what the rca-ons were for our Invasion of P. rnzil The one man who might be able to tell bomelhlng, Scbastio If. L. de Magalli. Is ending end-ing his days In a madman's cell lu I'stado de P.ahla. If ne represented some ambitious olltlclans In Urazil we lever kucw who they were, and It may have been that 1e was insane when we first met him. The whole ex-edltion, ex-edltion, review big its Incidents now, was merely the .'utile dashing of a handful of human pebbles against :be stoDe wall of a great aud resourceful nation. We nade things lively for a time, however. 1 Iu September, 10"7, there apH?ared lu various New oil: papers advertisements for men of adventurous Uire and military experience who would like to join 0 expedition. I answered one of the advertisements nd received lu reply u long typewritten prospectus. In rhlch the sender said he was commissioned to raise a igluient of coloulsts who might be called upon for miliary mil-iary service. I was ready for uuythlng, aud enlisted I'ter a conference with Mr. Magalli, who had sent me he prospectus. We were to equip ourselves, each with a iCeniiDgtou jrbine, four hundred rounds of ammunition and the tandard cavalry accoutrements for tropical service, fie whole cost to each individual being L'o. After sum little time Magalli ald be had biou Instructed to ick out thlrty-Uve men to send In advauce to p.razil, bis group to go to the Interior as commissioned others oth-ers lo take charge of bodies of men. 1 wout aboard the steamship P.vion, of the Lamport J Holt lioe. In New York November 4 to sail with the blrty-live, and found that wo numbered but nlue. The tlicrs could not raise the money. Then wus the mo-ent mo-ent of decision. We could have backed out just as fell aa not, but wo were unanimous in our division to 0 ahead aud see what we could do. The nine men, f; icludlng Magalli, were as follows: Oell l'.orer, an English actor and former lieutenant 0 t he P.oer War. Major Jiavies, a Welshman, retired troin the Hrltish rmy. Hubert Wilson and ;oorge Klncaid, Irish boys, late of the Canadian Mounted Rifles and I he Northwestern Northwest-ern Mnimicd Police. -crime l IT I'lri-ev. n ('i(-,i mui' .-iv Vnfi-er. ;mi electrical engineer. Herbert Pl.innebeekcr. of Brooklyn. N. Y., a tall, t-lendcr jonth w ith a genius as a marksman. Ceorse tlordon, a Scotchrnau. Ceorgc II Vice, ll.1ckens.1clc. N. T. We were still blind as lo our real object and destination destina-tion when we arrhed at P.ahla November !'., save that Magalli said he had decided that we should go to llheos from P.ahla by water If we could get away without being be-ing Interfered with, traverse the state of Palila peacefully peace-fully and get into the Stale of Minas (Jeraes, w here we would Issue a declaration of revolutlou and begiu to take possession of the country and the mines, lie said he believed we could raise a snlticletit following after two or three victories to get a revolution properly under way We would have to capture a few garrisoned gar-risoned towns licfure we could oxrwet to be taken seriously. seri-ously. First we bought good mounts for all of us ami then Magalli made an arrangement with the captain of a little bark, the I'nlone. to take us to llheos. To try to get aboard surreptitiously might mean failure at the outset, so we marched down to lhe custom house, carrying car-rying our arms, went straight through after passing regular Inspection and got aboard without one word of a suspicious nature being said to us or one linger lifted against us. We were so few In number that to have regarded us as a revolutionary expi dlliou would have been absurd. Some of the officials paid dearly for their carelessness later, however. Mistaken for Circus Men. When we debarked at llheos we camped on the beach, and as the town had been expecting the arrival it the yearly circus we were taken at llrst for an advance ad-vance section of the same. The town of llheos Is built In a sort of send circle on an Island. The new city hall, a two story affair, is built on a ridge In the centre of the town, which runs to a sharp rise of bills at the back and out into a jut of land, shaped like a gigantic loaf of bread, in front of the city. This jut of land makes the shelter for the harbor. A canal cut.s off tho Island, and it Is spanned by a bridge over which runs the road to the interior. To leave the city we must move from our camp on the beach directly through the heart of the town, ascend and cross the ridge and descend to the bridge on the other side. It was a nasty trap and a bad move at Irest. ho we debated the matter twenty-four hours endeavoring en-deavoring to allay native curiosity concerning us. II appears, however, that we Micreeded In arousing their suspicions all the more. At last Major Davlcs, who wus a l.ratc, gallant and capanle man, Insisted "'it t i-;i:i ., ..-,. ,vr, pii-ant rnr cert tin e-io- ture, and If we were going lo Invade l'.razil we mlsht as well start out and ao It right. First we cut all the wires ruuning out on onr side of town. P.razil has toll-graph lines where it will not have railroads for another fifty years. Political information Is very necessary. nec-essary. We broke camp and rode slowly and guardedly iuto the city, seeing, to our surprise, that a part of the company com-pany of infantry garrisoning the place was making haste to occupy the city hall. We were compelled to move dlnvtly toward it, however, and to move up hill In the open. The Battle. When within easy range and apparently moving along peacefully they be-j-in to tire n us, which was unwarranted, as we had made no offensive move. In ten seconds the battle was on. however, Gordon had his horse killed under him before he could dismount. All we could see were Brazilian rifles protruding from tho windows, and getting pro.T cover wo began a most interesting duel in marksmanship In which we bested them nicely. We learned afterward that we killed one soldier and wounded a large number of others, but we decreased the lire to svu h (in extent that we were able to work around where we could make a dash for the bridge. (Jordon, being unmounted, ran with us, hoping to be able to pick up a horse, as horses were usually plentiful, but w hen he did not find one he called 10 us to go ahead and wo went. He walked up to the home of a ltra-zlllun ltra-zlllun colonel of militia In the residential section, pursued pur-sued at a respectful distance by some of the colonel's men, and when he tendered the colonel the surrender of his revolver the gnllunt commander of the district turned a bad; somersault to get out of the window, his feelings not permitting hi in to stay and receive It. A perfect torrent of bullets began o jvuir Into the windows of the room In which Jordon was left standing, stand-ing, and dropping to the floor he emptied his revolver lulo the mahs of his assailants and then writhed in fire-tended fire-tended death agony, at last lying still, - hey then ventured ven-tured Into the room and he got up and surrendered. He died not a great while thereafter, however. Our tight wiw u bitter one, but we had siicceeed In our manoeuvre, suffering one terrible loss. Major DavU was .shot In the eye and died before we eould get hi m back on his horse, so we went on to the bridge, leaving his body behind us. When out of range we cut the remaining wires. At least we thought we did. but there was one (hat ran off In another direction through a chain af villages, and very shortly a message was gotten throiish to l'bihiu I'rU rcvolnli..!) ind broken out afl'heos and I he revn- |