Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-07-19

south, and then finally make their way IN
me Amazon country: That required much
hastened only In their amassing OF honest
wealth. They knew that when the troops
arrived the game OF empire would be fin-
ished.
Catalogue Of Revolutions.
What happened after those troops did
come-after months and more months OF
weary marching and swimming and canoe
ing ana ciimbing-reads dispiritingly and
tediously like a catalogue Some of the
Kings OF Acre lit out" The ex-base han
players departure was sudden. He had
reasons. He had more than s6oo 600 ma nix "a
sateiS IN civilized banks. Many of his COM
RACES doubtless are tramps today as they
began. 1t Is the way of Ruritanians
s some OF the kings elected to stay and
nght Several Of them found n fatal
others went to prison. Still others have
kept 1t up ever since. and they change
from dictators and presidents to fugitIyes
ana back again so often and so s,tddenl,y
mar II would be quite impossible 10 trace
their careers
For instance. one dictator the Italian
Parravicini, fed before the Bolivian troops.
While they were chasing him another hng,,
of Bolivian soidery entered Pner,o A.,
ana established headquarters there wbue
they were In the act of settling down for A
resi- brazilian engineer Gentil Norber;o,
proclaimed new republic right under their
noses He imprisoned the Roliyian orfcars
anu went on to spread the glad news
NHiIe ne was away the two officers SO
worked on the mercurial population with
mahlIestoeS Ga faVorte Latin method Of
Warfare) that Norberto had To return and
release them. Later the Boiivians ahan-
uohed fuerto Acre ''on account of the eli
MAJ, MAJ lhey needed no weather prophet
" zen them that II was going TO be hot
IN me meanwhile, another body of RoIfv-
IAN troops had been advancing from an
Nsd,JI aireGton. Suddenly they met. not
III $3.50 70 out brand new dictator. or.
rather' three, for Hipollto Mareira Ed
nonus Bastus and Col. Alepandriuo cir
mad formed a trlumvirate
Ihen lighting began afresh. Troops he
gan 10 move In again. And while they
were IN the midst of IL Manuel Felici0
cruelty defined as highwayuau ur,
claimed himself dictator
Last year general peace was arrived
a a. lIeh there was comparative quiet
although there never was a time when
some KIND of a revolution was not ON foot
but with the news that the Bolivian gov
erhnlent mad granted rights to the Ameri-
can syndicate all the troubles bid fair 10
begin again. If there Is TO be any rpo,.-,,
nlaue down there Bolivia Peru and Rrazil
al want IT, Brazil threatens all Kinds Of
thlhss now II the American concession
STANDS: 10 an extent Brazil has the upDer
ndn1' because at present the best way 10
market Is over its WATERWAYS through jts
territory to the Atlantic coast
but feru mas a plan to get IN far ahead
al anu builti "A railroad that shall
tap the rich country and carry its nrod,,Cts
10 lhe PACING coast over the mountains
10 ascertain the best route. that nation
IIo oiiIhed French engineer. Albert de
Lautreppe of Paris, to explore the country
ana mo road. He led an expedition and
reported that the plan was feasible
NO" ne has arrived in New York with re-
nlarkaoie news. He found immense rivers
spahned by wonderful bridges made of has
ket work by the natives More IN,
IMAM all, he found tribes of canribaI In
dlans, whose boast was that they never baI
aIio , whl'e men 10 pass through their
country. by diplomacy and generous pres
ents he managed to win. If not their friend
snip, at least sufferance. and he recal,od bis
opJectlNe point after many dangers. biit
without being harmed.
The Cannibal Indians.
his hrst experience Of the savages was
after passing Mount Camanti, after many
days of voyaging along the Marcapata
river. One morning the camp was alarmed
by the cry, "Chunchosr and looking out ~
his tent he saw tall, straight men peerin1
at them from the woods. They had mother
OF pearl disks in their nostrils and CANDY
feathers stuck through holes in the Inns and
cheeks some OF them had Sits in the r
upper lips, through which they uo,,id
thrust their tongues frequently
Ihey were armed with bows and arrows
ana after DE Lautreppe had won their con-
.I ne went hunting with them and saw
them drive their arrows clean tbronpL n
tapir, notwithstanding the animaTs ,bicls
tough hide. The explorer SAYS thar tbev
could fight men in armor. so hard do they
shoot with their simple arms
of humanity. They leave their sick an5
wounded without attempting TO helm them
lhey let their dead lie where they s,nire
Ihey do not even try to help each Gthar
parties. NIB
The Chunchos openly and withou. tho
least apparent thought of its horror 1,
scrlped TO him how they had killed a Ia M
~ 81 Mhite men IN rubber camp and eaten
them In celebration of the victory.
From the land of the Chuncbos .bs ~
peoiuon passed into the country OF a still
worse tribe the Huachaparis. OF whom
eseh Ihe thunchos were afraid. For davs
the explorers were conscious that rbey
were surrounded by hundreds. If MOI thon.
SANDS. OF the savages, but they could see
none, and only the footprints and the r1Ist-
ing IN the underground gave them warn
ing or the presence of their invisible ~ stcb
ers But at last De Lautreppe MANAGED "a
get INTO communication with them ana COW
vince them that he had come with no in
lmical purpose. "
He describes them as heinp -,o-o h.,f,,,
and ferocious in appearance and bahtt Inn
one can possibly imagine. They were great
men. few being less than six feet bloo
me. ihey were painted with bright red colGrs.
4
They, too, had their features pierced "a,
feather ornamentations
De l-autreppe says that he cannot ;eIl
why they permitted his party to cross their
territory alive. The Chunchos," he saws.
tod us that they had massacred three
white men in Carabaya just before we ar-
rived Just why we escaped trouble / can-
not explain, as they were entirely fearless.
and our firearms caused them neither s1r.
prise nor alarm. Somehow, we had the
luck to effect peace which neither Of me-
broke. 1t may be that they Were convinced
that We were not after their women which
seems TO be great cause of tribal wars
there. Most tribes are short of women
and, therefore, they raid each other fire.
quently."
All the tribes that he found exist SOLELY
by huntinug and rove over great extents OF
territory. De Lautreppe saws that The
country throughout shows evidences Of
great wealth in gold, and that Peru can
open 1t by building less than four hundred
miles OF railroad, part of which, indeed, is
already under construction.