Lincoln County advocate. (Canton, Dakota Territory, [S.D.]) 1876-1877, 1876-04-26
A LUCKY HO0SiER.
Romantic Story of an Indiana Boys Adven
lures in the Wilds Of Brazil.

| Romantic Story of an Indiana Boys Adven-
lures in the Wilds of Brazil. .,
An Indianapolis correspondent relates
the following romantic tale: Sanford
Morris, OF this city, has just received
from his son, Ernest Morris, the boy
naturalist, now seeking fame and speci-
mems in Brazil, letter which tells the
! most romantic tale of his good fortune in
quite different field. Nearly two years
ago young Morris, enthusiastic in natu-
raj history and only eighteen years Of
age, left indianapolis, struck the Ohio,
and reached New Orleans by skiff voy-
age, and thence sailed for Para, in Bra
zil, intending to ascend the Amazon nm
collect specimens in the wild and un-
known forests of South America. Re-
ports of his explorations have been re-
ceived and published from time to time,
as he reached points Of communication
along the route. He has assembled the
fountains of the Amazon in Ecuador,
hundreds of miles beyond the point
reached by the naturalist Bates, sent out
some years ago by the British Govern.
ment, and furnished with unlimited
means. Accounts Of his wonderful ad-
ventures and successful career as lover
of science having reached the ears of the
Smithsonian Institute and various scien-
tifc associations in New York and Phila-
delphia, he has been engaged in deliver
ing lectures on his return, and an East
ern publishing house will launch his
journal in book form. He writes to his
family here relating the grandest Of all
adventures yet. The story is as follows,
and reads like chapter from the cara
bian Nights: :" While enoamped one
evening on the banks of the Amazon,
near Santarm, below Villa Franco, o
furious storm arose. While preparing
shelter with palms he saw young In
dian maiden on the stream in light
canoe, and trying to make the shore be-
fore the storm came on. She was not equal
to the task, and Morris, noticing she was
being drawn slowly toward the powerful
current, swan boldly out to her rescue,
at great peril to himself, and pushed the
canoe safely to the shore. Her graft
tude took the shape of an invitation to
conduct her home. The young hero ac-
cepted, and after weary tramp, and
some sharpshootingat wild beasts on the
way, reached her home, only to find, to
his surprise that her father was native
chief of powerful Brazilian tribe, and
owned title deeds to the vast region y-
ing between the Amazon river and the
Sierra Acary range of mountains, and
that the girl was his only child. The
old chief overwhelmed him with kind
ness and gifts, has taken him into the
family, and now offers him the hand of
Miss Princess, who is extremely beauti-
fnl and wears a diamond-studded girdIe
that would ransom king. He promises
Morris countless treasures from his dia-
mond beds and gold fields, and the help
Of his whole tribe in collecting speei-
mems; but his pride is pitched in a royal
key, and before marriage can take place
he insists that the son of science shall
take the Indian beauty to his American
home as sister and obtain the consent
of his parents to the match. The father
runs lOxl2 lamp store here, and though
he cautioned Ernst not to get mixed up
with any of those girls down there, he
shows disposition to favor this diamond
fuf1,re for hia aon