The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1869-04-23
This Gendarme's AdYenture With a

| WIS travelling through Guyana, and
halted at the hut of negro, named Zavala
which has SORT of hunters rendezvous.
There fell in with a gendarme, lit a
cigar, and he did the same with his pipe.
The introduction was complete.
wi hat luck brings you to Guyana p |
asked
"Well captain, am passionately fond of
hunting, SO got exchanged into the colon
lal gcndarnlle, to be able to follow my in
cllnauons. In rance [ could not, and
with my tastes would have been bad gen.
darme for preachers. saas
a good one, rather u said I.
Good or bad as YOU term it so not to
get into trouble, | managed to exchange
as 1t Is notvery often "a fellow asks TO be
sent to Cayenne Here can fire a shot or
two, and there are no questions asked no
complaints made.
You have served in the army? l see
you are wounded in the leg
"Fdrdon / got those scratches hunt-
ing here year go. | came near being
gobled up by snake
Yes am pretty stout specimen, am
| not? | am afraid of no man-that has
been proved over aud over and over. If |
had found Rongou, the convict that has
broke loose, | would have brought him in
as sure as q top off this wine. Well for
all that when | think of my snake adj
venture, cold silver comes over
me. -.. ......
1T was boa, then 2"
Eyes so it seems. They call them coa7e
Tres here. Well, this is the way it
was: w. s. .r -.
On the right of the prairie, where We
have been hunting, Is a pripris (marshy
pond full of ducks, but by oay the deuced
birds kept in the middle, and there's no
way OF getting at them. You will sink
over your head IN the mud. it is only at
twilight that they are on the shore. | was
dying to bag some ofthcm. 50 one morn
ing | came DOM, went into the water
knee deep, and waited hand on trigger for
the, first ray OF light to show me a
bird.
'All at once I felt myself Suddenly sci
zed on the shoulder | turned to behold,
two inches from my face, the head Of an
enormous serpent. A jump aside olsen
gagged me from the enormous brute,
which tore off piece Of my wooden
shirt" ae .a..s a..t ...5I -
You were terribly frightened OF
course 2
II had no. time 10 be frightened I bad
to act The snake, after missing me ,he
first time, made ar me again. This .lme it
| took me an the thigh. Its teeth went deep
into the fle,h, and gave ne Intense pam.
almost lost courage, but with The butt oil
my gun bcat his head until he let go.
Thenit drew off TO encirce me in It's folds
! Fortunately | did not give it ,:mc With
! only one hand-I colId not use the other
i fired both barrels it fell MORALLY
wounded As for me, | made few steps
and got on the bank I did not know
whether my enemy was dead. | Only
thought Of flight /; but my strength betray
ed nae. | fell fainting How long | lay
| do not know when [ came 10, The SUI
was high in the heavens My wound was
intensity painful. | rallied ali my strength
and courage, and how walking aud ther
crawling | to make my way to this hut o
Iavala >. They carried me to the ho>pita
where 1 lay six weeks. had fever, dciir
lnnl and constant shivering. | .narrow
escaped amptatioa, but [ came # with N
life and leg, though with Il sii On
limp" H T.a