Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1901-01-25
RITTEN BY A NEvILL0
ONE OF THE TeaRoRs OF IRE ""
-ue ,s1nMus OF TeHuANTePeo'

. ,,..ra From whose Deadly '" "
o,,v One Man IL Know" 10
u...v.r.d-The Treatment "
saved Him From DEATH
az oucss l am the only living inan
.,,t hos been bitten by the neV''io'
'nnomous lizard Of the isthmus VI
hmantenec" said william W. Ciooh'
New Yorker with Central Anlc' I.;,n
experiences. This lizard Is OF ',ie , um
monster family and is horrld iook'ns
rant,le Of a notified liver cola "n'
10 from six to ten inches long us pi,o
10 deadly. aud. as l said, am the oni!
nerson known who has lived ai.ef ~.
Ing bitten. 1t was case OF mp "A
tuck though, and didn't get over i"
for two months or more ,,.o
"The brute bit me out of pure nlailee,
For 7 wasn't doing thing to IT. ma"
coffee plantation down on the ]stn'
INNS several years ago and just De-
fore the hot season began, yhlch was
in March | had as my guest Dr. FER
Gus Macdonald Of the Smithsonian
institution, who was In that country ~
the interest of science WINE ne was
with me we received an invitation u
VISIT the great plantation of Dr. fedro
Arpuilles. one of the most prominent
men of that country, and we Went 10
his hacienda near Minititlan' Inc
ladies' of the family had all gone 10
Mexico City, and as the weather was
hot we men loafed around IN our py-
jamas, the upper garment OF when Is
n big sleeved affair called camisa.
zone day DR.. Macdonald and had
adjourned to the patio or court OF the
building, and while lay in the grass
talking to him he was busy greaslng
and putting into shape his guns ana
reyolvers. He was six or eight feet
away from me, and was lying with
my head propped up on my arm, from
which the sleeve had slipped, leaving 1t
exposed to the elbow, which rested on
the grass. OF course neither of us was
thinking about reptiles or other dan
gers right there in the court OF the
building. Suddenly, as ! talked, the
doctor threw his hand up in warning,
and knew that whatever 1t was he
saw there was danger in my moving,
and l must keep still. So kept as
steady as could, and then felt some
thing go up my arm toward my head
and stop near my wrist.
II couldn't see what it was, but |
knew something about tropical reptiles
and l kept perfectly quiet while the
doctor caught up one Of his revolvers
and threw a couple Of cartridges into
it. He aimed across my body and fired,
and as jumped to my feet a neville
at least seven inches long fell writing
to the ground, shot through the head.
The bullet had gone on into my arm
and came out at the elbow and ! was
bleeding. Bel veen the bullet marks.
though. were the fang marks where the
neville had stuck its teeth into my arm.
and l told the doctor thought it had
got me. AS soon as he saw 1t he gave
me some kind Of hypodermic injec-
ton in the left leg. the right arm hav-
ing been bitten. and at once took his
knife and slashed me across the fang
marks. Into the wounds of my arm
he poured bottle of concentrated
ammonia. Almost instantly after
had been bitten began to grow dizzy
clouds of light smoke. and when the
ammonia struck me keeled over in
dead faint.
Five days later awoke in mud
bath by the riverside, my body twice
its normal size and my tongue sticking
out of my mouth. They had carried
me there as soon as tainted, and
night and day my guide and his daugh-
ter had been Watching by me, with
fires at night to keep off the animals
from the jungle. Every IL hours my
arm was lifted from the mud and
cleansed. and on these occasions it was
always found to be of green color.
AS soon as returned to consciousness
| was carried to the house and put to
bed, and there for two weeks l re-
manned and then went down to the
coast and up to the we'll known hot
springs, where was treated for two
months until every bit Of the venom
had left my body. During it all | suf-
fered no pain, nor have ever felt the
slightest Inconvenience since. What
effect the bullet wound in the arm had
l don't know Possibly the blood that
came from the bullet wounds saved
me. Anyhow something happened that
never happened to any other person
bitten by neville, or l wouldn't be
here to tell the story"
Mr.. Gloon barred his arm for the ben
eft of the listeners, and if an arm ever
looked as If it had been through hard
that one did. 1t was SCARED
as If burnt with hot irons and covered
from the elbow down with all kinds of
peculiarly shaped notified spots of
about the same color as the lizard
New York Sun.