Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-08-13

venomous serpent TO attack them from
the ~overhanging bows or at their feet,
fearing the springing of the tiger from
behind or at the side, each eye has
been so strained and forced into an
unnatural focus that it looks out to the
right or left. But if looking a man
square in the face were the test OF
honesty every man of them would have
TO so to Jail, for they could not look
straight ahead of them if their lives
depended upon it. In spite of his de-
feet, they can see more in a minute
than a white man can see in a week.
and their hearing is acute. The tribd
of the slant-eyed men numbers abox
10000.
In shutting the dangerous Made
Falls a knowledge of the current(
the stream is Indispensable.
sands OF the river bed shift and chi
There are times when it is impos
to make the shute with any other
suit than the death Of every soul
board.
A slave was lent by his master to
guide Mr.. OLSON through a we'll nigh
impenetrable forest. The OILY road
is a single file pathway that is kept
open by the natives in heiriwander-
ings across the country. Oh either
side there are mighty tpees. Theyl
are of finest mahogany on valuable
hard wood. but are worth nothing in
those forests; so there they stand
century after century until they get
heart disease dry rot that creeps
out and out toward the bark. When4
at last the support that has for so
many years sustained the weighty top
is weakened sufficiently, with the first
fierce storm down the tree goes. III it
fall across one OF these ~footpaths the
traveller must get around II In some
way. 1t will no doubt be hours before (
he finds his road again. and when he
emerges MS face will be torn and
bleeding by the thory underbrush.
Into such a forest as this Mr.. OLSON
went with his Indian guide. One of
the mules played out, and the other
one was little better off. They we're
lost. The Indian wanted to lie down
and die, but Mr.. OLSON thought other
wise. He tied a rope around the In
dian and dragged him along. Eho
night was pitch dark. With the II
and the mule Iitcned To 4 rope \
with a stick ii hand TO beat from side |.
to side, thus to find whatever smalf
opening there might be in the UNDER,
brush, the missionary tramped along,
They had been lost two days without
food or water. AT last 1t seemed that
neither the mule nor the Indian could
go a step farther, and the missionary
and his servant threw their tired bodies
upon the ground to rest.
NICE INSECTS.
There are enormous black ants in
those forests-ants nearly an inch
long. Their mounds contain millions
of inhabitants inc they can sting a
man TO death. and with the many busy
workers that they can put upon the
job they can pick his bones bare in less
time than it would take a pair of hum
CRY lions to do the work. There are
also little insects that bore under the
fingernails and toenails, Others that
gimlet their way into the soles of the
feet, and a mite whose proboscis Is q
hypodermic syringe shooting a poisous
fluid into the victim OF their wrath,
which simply drives the man mad with
pain. After the first fierce innam-
nation subsidies the skin sloughs OF in
mattery sores. These poisonous bugs
the natives call "guara patros."
The Indian had been ON the ground
only a few moments when. with fierce
yells, he jumped up. AT the moment
Mr.. OLSON thought his unfortunate
guide must be mad for wan Of water.
He spoke to him. but got no answer.
The thought occurred that they must
meet their death in that wild forest,
and that no man would ever know what
became OF them. Scarcely was this
| thought formulated than Mr.. OLSON
also bounded to his feet with the sauna
terrible cry.
The tired travellers had laid them-
| selves down TO rest on a spot OF land
pre-empted by the "guara patros," Who
had promptly declared var. charged
the camp and routed the enemy. Tho
Indian was nearly naked, 50 the insects
had made themselves felt first on him
Nov they must go on. whether they
would or no. Daylight brought them
10 a river. where they drank and rest
| ed. Never did water taste 80 good But
the Indian begged the missionary 70
| spare his life. saying that he could not
swim the stream. a. be was too weak
| After an hour or two Of rest they wan
the river. and that night they reached
a settlement. Both. however. were weIl
/ covered with the wounds az the. s*xuar1