The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-07-06

Gran Chaco, the most mysterious spot
IN the American continent, and posi-
blv in the world, has claimed another
hond of victims; again the Pilcomayo
liver has proved itself deserving of
tho title given to it by the natives of
paraguay, Argentina and Boliva--River
of Death.
The last victims of the unknown
Mace are the famous Italian explorer,
Guido Boggiano, and his party. From
As1ncion in Paraguay the news has
reached American geographers that the
marty has been officially pronounced
dead.
With the Staying of Boggiano, Gran
Chaco triumphantly keeping its secret,
has successfully defied five nations
France, Spain, Germany, Italy and
Paraguay Each of them sent it's best
explorers and to none did their men re-
turn alive.
CreVeauX of France. Ibarreta Of
Spain, Lista of Paraguay, Sirvent of
Germany and Boggiano of Italy all
started from the borders, dived into
the primeval forests of Ell Gran Chaco,
reached the Pilcomayo river and dis
appeared forever.
No man has gone in and emerged
alive What turks in it's twilight for
ests that Stays so surely!
Look on the map of South America.
Between the TroDic of Capricorn and
latitude 90 south, and between longi-
N tude IS and 65 west, is a patch that is
left almost entirely blank. That patch
contains more than seventy-five thou
sand square miles about which man
III knows nothing.
1t is the terra incognita of the Ameri-
q can continent.
Guido BoGginno.
Five months ago Guido Boggiano
started from ASuncion with an expedi-
ton of six Indians and a peon to fol-
low the path that so many others had
taken before him and that had led them
Il TO death. Friends had urged him in
vain to desist. Local officials had add
n cd their warnings without effect. Men
q heard from him only once after he had
q eft civilization, as he passed through
Puerto CaSado. Then came a week of
Il silence, broken by the arrival of two of
the expedition. Even in that one week
hardshiDs and terrors had become too
4 much for them and they had fed to-
ward settled country. They reported
q that the line of march had been
Il through constant dangers and through
q constant mystery. Unseen enemies
Il had attacked them by day and by
u night. Unseen animals had prowled on
their trail Unseen things had terrified
the Indian helpers. so that even then
81 Bosgiano was finding it almost impos-
81 Sible to force them on.
That is the last that has been heard
by man of Guido Boggiano and his
party month ago an expedition I'M
der local officials started out from
Puerto Cascade to search for news of
the lost men. 1t penetrated only a few
miles into the unknown land-not far
enough to find even a trail, but far
y enough to learn that there was no
81 doubt that the entire expedition had
& been destroyed, presumably by the
fierce, practically unknown TOBIAS In
dians.
This makes the second expedition to
vanish within a year.
How CreVenux Died.
First to meet fate in Gran Chaco was
DR. Creveaux. He started into the in
terror in 1886 with a large and well
armed party, fired with wonderful
stories of strange. tall, savage men,
strange wild beasts of huge size and a
profusion of new orchids and other
fantastic plants and creatures that
were said to be in abundance there. He
forced his way for several months
through the wilderness along the Pill
comayo until he penetrated into the
TOBIAS country, near the Bolivian
boundary, where the expedition, worn
and thinned out by constant fighting
and hardships, fell into the hands of
the Indians, who suddenly appeared
from all quarters and massacred all.
The fate of the CreVeaux Expedition