The evening world. Newspaper, October 3, 1913, Page 20

| t ? COL. ROOSEVELT SAILS TO-MORROW FORTHE AMAZON He Will Deliver Three tures in South America. Lees FACES FE Likely to Encounter the Fierce POISONS. Mangeromas, Cannibal In- dians, in His Expedition. Theodore Hoonevelt Is to depart to- Morrow wooard the steamship Vandyck for South America on what wil be his Hiret venture into the Amazon jungle. October is the beginning of the rainy feason In the Jungle and Mi. Velt hax arranged deliver three scheduled addremses in Rio de Janeiro, Bac Paulo and Buenos Ayres, Then the piunale ‘The real dangera of the jungle which Mr. Rooseveit will face are the fevers which come from the awampn, from the Dites of mosquitos and ania and other innect peste. So far as the Amazon te concerned one needa a large supply of Quinine for javary and malarial fevera, In addition to these there are tho yel- Jow fever in certain places of the Ama- fon and the dreaded bert-beri, ‘There are any number of potsonous ‘water anakes, and eo dangerous to hu- man life ta the water itvelf that pra. Ueally no one ever takes @ bath in the Amason or the hundred rivers which flow into it. What the natives do—and Indians who are civilized are cleanly Wereons, by the way—ia to buthe in a ‘Dath houre situated Just above the water. ‘The water ts drawn up in a can or other receptacle and thrown over the body. In thie way one can be sure of dodging little fish that often penetrate the body and require @ surgical opera- tlon to take them out In bathing tn this way the danger of water anakes, | athway in the jungle unless they come|with Trautwein, Because of long ex- erocodiles, alligators and even boa con- trictors in thug escaped. GTING OF DREADED FIRE ANT PAIN! ‘(OR HOURS. There are many epecies of ants in the Amazon, one species, the so-called offre ant, stings, and the pain !s felt for hours afterward, Another ant of the Jungle gives a transient fever, still an- other ant, when it Dites, gives no fever, Dut the effect is of long duration. One ant, called the black an‘, which 19 an inch and a half long, when it bites a human being makes a Painfnl tm cision that is dangerous. (n the other hand, there is one specien of ant that when fried In lard is said to be very qPaiatable, ‘The great danger to the hunter or the traveller in the Amazon alley, whether he goes in the senson when 1, reine every afternoon, say from October to February, or in the dry weason, once fever strikes the victim Some men, through the trop- and come out with- out impair come Back @ wreck and have been com- pelled to 0 to @ hospital and to follow @ dally diet of qui Another danger o! cannibal Indians that are found far in- land, And if Mr. Roorevelt foll hha contemplated plans to Peru will Goubtieas come across these cannibals. These cannibal Indians, in order to etrike back at their enemi that ts, those who are encroaching upon their Preserves, frequently will poison the ‘water 20 that those who drink of it ther die of poison or be incapa- Journey in the Amason jun years ago. Only 4 fortnight ago the (printed a despatch to friends of the Page-Cromer exploring party that Chicago some time ago to the effect that ‘the Peruvian Government reported that jm @earching expedition that went into Jungle for the exploring party re ported that they had found up of Indians in possession of ¢ »»asgage of the party. ‘These men set out to lay a tral! be- tween the old Inca cities of Chiquita and Pajalen. Arms and baggage are the last things that explorers would give up, and doubtless unly a superior force could such weapons away Roos! LT'S NAME KNOWN IN THE JUNGLE. Beyend question, Mr. Meet with hospitable treatment oy the Matives of Brasil, because undoubtedly the name of Roosevelt has reached the Qragtcal jungle ef the Amazon jum ae ft 416 the African jungies before he an there. spapers wived Fellowing the preliminary plans the Coleme! will Mkely go into the jungle towarde the end of the rainy season. ‘The Amaston is the rainest region in the world, the trade winds as they aweep across the Atlantic Anally depositing its waters in the great Brazilian plain. Byverybody lives in houses built on @tsita, and sometimes on the outposts of the “cities” the butcher in the rainy @eagon paddies in his bout into the dining room and leaves bie food in the bitehen. There are no roads in the Amason | except the flowing roads of the rivers, There are no trails even except trom wubber tree to rubber tree, that end y everywhere and anywhere, and the only way in which one Bo through the ungies ie to carry aiong an axe oro Machette and cut one's way through, | Roones Roosevelt will | high cost of living reaches its top- | | condensed mtik @ cents, Potat the tle of ginger als A oe | pound | where, plain wine ful hunt pean be | The ¢ high coat is that in the agriculture te practically va The prineip most woughy for by howling ey » Ww the natives biow-gun, using poleuned arrows themselves merely 2 do not kill, it is that does that work, The jelly takes but @ few minutes | and the monkey drops off the tree. Strange us it may appear the poison | does not effect the flesh of the monkey, | as far as can be learnel, no has ever been affected after ¢: ing nkey shot with a pulson arre When the Indians shoot a ey they make no pretense of catching It [am it fails, but there is little danger of | any clawing, for the monkey appears to lie asinep whan It falia and within a dozen minutes ita heart stops heating. wards roaated for killed In thin way Another animal that consumption, tapir, ‘This in the largest animal of the Jungle, and the flesh is muld to resemble roast beet hor mainmal that is ix the manatee, really @ ‘The flesh of this mammal tastes som what like pork. A delicacy of the Jun ie the turtle which Is fried in Ite o fat INDIANS SHY AT HUNTING THE JAGUAR. animal or Next to | weurujsua, bow, the ar ig the most dreaded animal of jungle. The big nome- timen grows to @ length of aix and seven waits for its prey upon low lying upon tho breaking its spine and tearing ite throat, regardless of whether the animal is a wild beast Iike the tapir or the cattle of the Meld. ‘The Indians do not #eek out the because combat th animal, particularly when it | ‘The jaguar will attack a hy only when hungary driven t ‘The tapir, on the other hand, will give the human being a wide berth, and even the puma, which ouurded as @ beast of very little cour will not stand be- fore man, Even wild boars will dodge man's upon them unawares, ‘Tha manatee sometimes grown to a length of fifteen feet and it is one of the most unusoal sights of the jungle to pee the river cow standing upright upon ite tall. ‘The anaconda, which has jaws that open vertically and horizontally, often lies colled on @ bunk waiting to em- brace and drown any living thing that comes its way. Even emall Brasilian deer are not immune because of their else. Alligators and crocodiles are to be found in the Jungle at all seasons. In addition to’ vai fnakea and Mr. Roonevel 1] ave strange joking bate, foxes, wolves, vamplrex and, last but not least. the most benu- tiful butterfiles in all the world. ———. SON BORN TO E. R. THOMAS. Infant ef Banker and Sport eperted Deotag Well. Cable despatches from Paris report the birth of a eon to Mr. and Mrs, BE. R. Thomas. Mother and son are said to be doing well. BE. R. Thomas, once & well-known banker and sportsman in New York, married Elisabeth KR. Finley, daughter of Henry T. Finley of West Fifty-sev- enth eet, in Newport, Nov, 6, 1912. They searched for a week before find- ing a clergyman who would perform the ceremony and finaliy alighted on paraon, turned carpenter. occurred at the home of Livingston Beeckman, sister Mis, R. of Mr. Thomas, He had been by his first wife, Lee of Kentucky, boys," was shot in the head eafly y by a negro with Whom he had an altercation in front of No. 43 Wost |Forty-tirst street. The the building at that addr not be found by Policeman Stone, who @earched the premises, Stone says he knows who the negro is, O'Keefe, the © ran into but could dition. He refused to tell anything it the shooting. The police later tout general alarm for “Kid West.” a negro prizefghter, ‘ANOLD RECIPE Gray, Faded Hair Dark and Glossy. and Sulphur, | brings back th | to the hair when fade properly compounded. You will get a t 60 cents, Everybody you » naturally can b@ purchased for In ven well by the pound at} HI Mi and for @ ike mum may comte as much as @ Fved butter, and 3 cents of unrefined are aed every Most of the monkeys, which are after. | are) in roasted In the | divorced wounded youth, was taken to New York ‘Hospital by Dr. Irving in @ serious con- TO DARKEN HAIR | Sage Tea and Sulphur Turns} ‘one knows that Sage ‘Tea sural color and lustre reaked or gray: th's Sage and Sulphur large | uses this old, famous recipe, because no | darkened THE EVENING REQUEST $236, T0 BUY SAFE AND TYPEWRITER Economical Queens Adminis- trator Really Needs 'Em or He Wouldn’t Ask. On issues of economy and efficiency and, seemingly, downright public mod- sty, the Public Administrator of ; Queens County, Randolph Whi | bears to be an ex | office holder, « ) an Interest- jing human doc © sent to the Hudget Committes to-day Despite the fact that the city for which he works, sponds $192,000,000 » year, Adminiatrator White has handled for ye of tntestates with on chair for his off In Din letter tlon of $215 for propria typewriter and typewriter w was Auties have been dovbied, wo that he neets new office equip The letter with the Budget Committee the amusement of the de- ie and how nim read partinent te OK on Mr | uly modest request for | 14, and it is likely that the Adm. latrator wil! only one of Fathe Knicker! of departinent In an article regarding the activities of Edwin Elliott Trautwein in promoting | }of Brooklyn, print name of Capt lated with Kvening Work ‘Trautwein, iniormants in several | instances state in apparently good faith | that their claims were in the hands of Rankin and Trautwein, Capt. 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