Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-11-13
IN PANAMA WILD.
Baron Won Teuber Tells of
Hostile Indians.
FEW NEGRO GUIDES SHOT
Search for Gold and Coal in Isthmian
Mountains.
FEVER KILLS ONE OF PARTY
Austrian Adventurer Believes There
Is Great Anthracite Deposit
in the Interior.
FEW NEGRO GUIDES SHOT
EVER KILLS ONE OF PARTY

NEW YORK, November l3.-Baron F.
b. Won Teuber, the young Austrian eX-
plorer who went to the Isthmus of Pan
anna ten months ago to search for an
thracite coal and collect specimens and
chronological da'a for the Smithsonian In
sttutfon In the practically unknown coun-
try of the San Bias Indians, returned
alone yesterday to New York on the Royal
Mail steam packet, Magdalena
When the baron sailed from this port he
was accompanied by three American min
ing engineers, Frederick Smith. Peter
Bartlett. and John Bradley. who went to
seek the source Of the gold washed down
from the range of mountains called the
Cordillera de Chipo to the coast of the
Gulf of San Bias. On arrival at Colon,
Carl Won Teuber. brother of the baron
and a student from Heidelberg, joined the
party.
Bradley died of black water fever in a
sailing boat while on his way to the hos
pi;al at Colon from Cart. small town
at the mouth of a river of the same name.
Smith went to Peru, and Bartlett. and Carl
Won Teuber remained on the isthmus.
Brings Back Relics.
Among the barons effects on the liner
specimens of plants. pieces Of ancient pot
terry, complete skeletons and clothing of
different tribes of San Bias Indians,
quantity carved idols made of Spanish
mahogany, spears. bows and arrows, ali
made by the natives. Some of the pottery
and idols antedated the landing Of Column.
bus.
Most of the specimens will be donated
to the Smithsonian Institu' ion and the
rest to the Royal Museum Of Natural His
tory in Vienna
I'VE left Colon at the end Of January
with provisions and tent outfit in a gas
oline launch" said the baron, land pro-
ceeded northeast along the coast to Playa
de Damas. There we left the launch and
waded knee deep up a narrow, tortuous
waterway to San Christoval. a negro set
Element situated on a small river of the
same name. The blacks were taken there
from Yves. Africa in the early days of the
French canal company. and remained in
preference to going back to Africa.
Natives Afraid Of Indians.
I'VE stopped at the village three days to
get guides to 60 up country. We offered
them SIS day each. but the men were
all too much afraid of the Indians and
refused. On the fourth day we got two
negroes to go a short way and put US on
the right trail to cross the country to the
Mandinga river. down which we could go
to the coast.
''They took us in a native dugout until
nigh fall and then got scared and left us.
After that we waded down stream for
five days until We struck the Mandinga
river.
Bradley was the first man to fall sick
through the hardships of the trip, bad
water and intense heat. He was from
Boston. twenty-seven years old. and l
did not think his sickness was serious at
first. Then Barrie gave out through a
tick getting into his foot and causing
what is known in that country as tick
fever.
''On the same evening that the Man
dinga was reached we were surrounded by
200 hostile Indians of the Gait tribe. who
had followed us on information given
them by Chinese trader. To my sur
prise. none of them spoke Spanish. but
the interpret err talked English fluently,
and the first question he asked was: