The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1914-07-15

lord loaned me suit of white clothes
to wear and in them could recline
or when standing could walk all right,
but could not sit down. Oh, was a
swell all right.
| am now in Port of Spain and have
been into my trunks and cleaned up
and my shirts are all too large and |
can't wear them, and new suit of
clothes which was too small for me
when left here is entirely too large
for me. ! have lost twenty pounds
through starvation, but am as hard as
iron and have a color of chocolate and
guess never looked filter in my
life.
The reason for my hasty exit from
Venezuela all alone was that on the
25th OF May | separated from my com
paniOns because of personal differ
enccs with Taylor and decided to go
it alone. | asked them to take me in
our boat to Canon Negro, from which
place ! was going to make my way by
burro and boat to Paragua, but on the
way to Canon Negro we met the In
dians who some weeks prior had TAX
en- US up the river, and they told us
that there was fighting at Paragua
and San Pedro and that Canon Negro
was deserted and no way to get past
that place. decided that | would
then go down the Caroni river some
hundred miles by boat to San Pedro
and run the gauntlet and if | met
rcvolutionists first would so with
them and il the others wanted me my
services were gratis to them.
Bidding my former companions a
fond adicu | started with the Indians.
The following day we were running
rapids in the river and at the last one
that day we started into the stream.
when one of the Indians called "POr
Terra meaning for me to take to
land and portage and holding the
boat by a branch of a tree that he had
caught. ! had been riding in the dug
out. which was made from tree
trunk with nothing on but shirt and
pants so as to swim in case had to.
and left the boat in that condition
and walked through the jungle and
stood on a rock to watch them come
through the rapids. While standing
there | Immediately saw that no boat
could live in that water and all at
once my boat came like shot from
a cannon around the turn and went
gracefully over some falls which were
about ten feet high and owing to the
swollen condition of the river fell in
a beautiful sweep, but below the wa
tcrs reared like tidal waves some ten
or fifteen feet high, while underneath
the waters must have run like from
the nozzle of hose. The boat went
over the first wave, cut into the sec.
ond and the third lifted her high in
the air and turned her completely
backward and drowned my bOatman
and lost everything had on the cx-,
pedition.
Well, l sat down and smoked my
last pipe of tobacco and ruminated.
There | was nearly $50 miles from
Bolivar and everything lost except my
money, which had in my hip pocket.
That day had nothing to eat That
night at dusk at O'Clock picked out
some nice soft stones on the bank of
the Caroni and passed the night, sleep
ing in a soaking rain, and never was
so glad to see daylight come in all
my life. The following day | passed
the time on the banks of the Caroni
with nothing to cat, and in the after
noon had the Indians ferry me across
the river and after walking about II
miles | made the Indian camp and de-
scribed to them the mishap and got