The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1914-01-15
PROF. ADOLPH HELDENBERGER
RETURNS TO BROOKLYN
Scientist Returns With Story of Wonderful New
Adventures-Lost Four Months.
Women Decoy Men.

mems ValuaOle 10 SSAeuSe Ill hoAo'
fessils and Inca relics, the fruits OF
months of hardships and prlvatlon
on the snowclad peaks of the Andes
and in the sweltering jungle of the
Peruvian borderland, Prof. Adolpn
Heldenberger, naturalist, entomolo-
sist and archeologist, as we'll as ex-
plorer, recently arrived in Brooklyn
ON the steamer Tennyson, of the
Lamport & Holt line, says the Brook
lyn Eagle. The professor is en- route
to his home in Germany, where ne
will arrive shortly after the new
year to spend belated Christmas
with his family from whom he has
been separated from more than
year. Prof. Heldenberger is grad
uate of the University of Bonn, and
as he stood on the deck of the Ten
nyson as she steamed slowly up the
bay, face tanned the color of mahog-
any, he looked anything but one OF
the race with which one has learn
ed to associate stolidity.
''In September, 1872 said the
professor, Il left Germany accom-
panied by young student, Freia-
rich Mailer, upon an expedition OF
scientific research that was to take
US over the Andes, and if possible,
we intended to pentrate farther in
to the Peruvian jungle to Peru than
any white man had done before us.
Arriving at Lima we struck inland,
taking with US a Portuguese rubber
man who professed to be familiar
with the territory through which
we were to travel before striking
the unknown.
with a party of ten natives we
began our ascent of the Andes. AL
though we were beset by the many
difficulties that accompany jour
ney of that kind and came upon
many ruins of ancient cities, we
discovered nothing of great impor-
tance and met with but one mishap
when one of our carriers fell into a
crevice carrying with him llama
laden with portion of our camp
Kit. Both were instantly killed.
Rising above the timber line we
entered the snow belt. Here We
were reduced to the utmost suffer
ing, for the air, besides being great
ly rarifed, thus making it difficult
to breathe, was bitterly cold. Pro-
longed effort would result in condi-
ton bordering on suffocation, but re-
aardless of this fact, knowing that
we were approaching the summit
and would soon begin our descent,
we pushed rapidly forward.
Lost Four Months.
IA few days later our descent be-
gan. Reaching the timber belt on
: the eastern side of the Andes We
bore to the northern in the general
direction of Calleria, a small town
op the Peruvian border, containing
few white men engaged in the rub
Der trade, but composed mostly of
native population. Arriving at Cal
leria, after weeks in the jungle, we
recruited a new force and plunged
into the unknown, and from thence
forth we were lost to civilization for
four months.
For three days the going was
comparatively easy, for we followed
the native paths that formed a net
work through the almost impene-
trable forest. Everywhere about us
were giant trees covered with vines
ti:aped in great festoons that formed
forest which had to be cleared with
great native knives welded by our
carriers, and it took US days to nego-
tiate a few miles.
Crossing the Javari river We en-
tered the Province of Uraycus, in
Brazil. On every side We were be-
set by danger. Wild beast and rep
tiles abounded Many of these be-:
longed to a species which l had
never before seen. The very grass
l;arbored enemies. Tiny insects, In
visible to the naked eye, would pene7
trate the clothing and imbed them
selves in the skin causing no end of
irritation. Some of these we're real!
ly poisonous.
Our little party dwindled rapid
~. Snake bites and fever killed
FIVE of our native carriers. From
time to time We came upon what ap-
peared at one time to have been ma
tive villages. We met a few stray
savages in the jungle, but they, for
the most part, appeared friendly and
unafraid.
Women Decoy Men. :,
1t was from one of these that We