Arizona republican., 1892-09-07
Lawrence.

Abont the middle of summer these streams begin to rise, those from the southwest first, those from the northwest and north few weeks later, and fort night after the arrival of the second SUD- plement the valley of the Maranon, the "wild hog river" as the early colonists called the Amazon, becomes a paradise of swamp loving brutes. The tapis, the peccari, the fish otter celebrate the pie nic season of their summer life, and herds of wild deer begin their westward exodus. Near Monte Beira, in the province (now state) of Matto Crosse, the woods in midsummer get full of game, as hundred years ago the foot hills of the southern Alleghanies swarm ed with wild pigeons when the forests of the north were buried in snow.
 A more than usually sudden rise of the flood cuts off many of these fugi- tives, who are thus reduced to the al- ternative of making for the highest &C., cessible ground, farther east, till every knoll becomes hill of refuge, crowded with timid brutes, whose survival de- bends on their escape from the giant cats and boas who may approach their stronghold by swimming, if the water should have submerged too large DOT ton of the continuous forest.
 About two months after the begin- ming of the rainy season the deluge of the lowlands reaches its maximum. Thousands of square miles are sub merged so effectually that canoes can be padded through forests apparently free from underbrush, since only the taller trees, with their network of climbing vines, rise like islands above the surg ing waters. The swollen rivers have found new currents, and broad, gur- gling streams twist and eddy through the leafy wilderness, tearing off whole groups of trees, with all their roots, but making amends by depositing hillocks of driftwood, which soon get covered with tufts of new vegetation.
 The pressure of the surging flood against these mounds of alluvium soon becomes enormous, but the deep rooted stems of the adansonia and the canoho tree may resist till new deposits of drift wood consolidate number of mounds, thus forming good sized islands with a down stream base of perhaps half mile, but narrow head defiecting the cur rent left and right, like the wedge shaped front of a stout bridge pier. At the time of their incipiency these new islands may be tenanted only by river lizards, but necessity is the mother of successful exploration as well as of in vention, and week after it's birth the driftwood hill swarns with animal refugees, hogs, deer and capybaris, jos ting each other in their struggle for q base of operations, thus often getting noisy enough to attract the prowling carnivora.
 The climbing talent of the great cats saves them the trouble of emigration. The jaguar and the ocelot become en- tirely arboreal, travelling like monkeys from branch to branch, and making themselves at home in the tree tops-so much so indeed that some of them go to housekeeping and raise a litter of cubs in the cavity of hollow tree.
 Their larder is replenished by all sorts of pheasants and woodhens, who make their headquarters in the underbrush, but who are now obliged to take up lodgings on the lower branches of the un- submerged treess By climbing around the stem and rising suddenly ill view an ocelot can scare a roost of gallinaceous fowl out of their wits and strike down two or three of the clumsy youngsters before the whole flock contrives to take wing.
 A swimming deer in these submerged tangle woods has no chance at all against the pursuit of an enemy that can leap from branch to branch or climb along the viaductlilse cables of the great liana vines, and a jaguar would not begin to regret a phenomenal deluge till the waters had closed over the tops of the tallest palms.-San Francisco Chron- | icle.