The Washington times., 1914-02-18
.CANN|BALS DEvOUR
JUNGLE EXPLORERS
GnaWed Bones Found by BesIey
Party in Fever-Ridden South
America.
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Minister Henry Clay Howard at Lima
received a telegram from Secretary
Of State Bryan asking him to inquire
about the fate Of the Cromer-Seljan
expedition which went into the inter-
ior in 1911 to locate a grant Of land
awarded to the Peruvian American
CORPORATION by the Peruvian govern
ment.
"We knew that w. II. Cromer,
West Point graduate. was one OF the
heads: that w. Fl. Page was another
member and that Slejan. whose first
name we never got. was a third.
"Holbrook, Coates. Dunno and my
self started soon afterward and after
leaving Cerro de Pasco plunged INTO
a country which white men had
never entered and left before. Noun
tains gave way to jungles. and Jun
giles to mountains which reached lar
above the snow line. II was a couh-
try of hostile Indians who were
cannibals, according to the Indians
we had with us.
I'VE struck out for the Hullaga
river. down which we were TO rnIt;
and some time before this We had
our first fight with bandits. They
came into our camp as friends ana
departed with protestations OF friend
ship. They had told us to take a
certain &C urse. Scenting trick Hol-
brook, Coates, and l trated them.
we found they had prepared an am
bush for US. We flred upon them ana
the survivors ran away.
Fired Upon BY Indians.
I'VE reached the river ara ratte'i
down for seven days. We werc fired
upon By Indians with poisoned arrows,
bIowguns and old fashioned muSEots.
We ate monkeys, parrots. turtles AM
some fish. We were pretty tired when
we reached Galiche, an Indian village
| at the junction of the Juaniui ctrer:
! There We got trace OF iel1"n ana
| Patrick O'Higgins, an American miner
; who had been with him. We never GOT
! = trace of Cron er or Page.
! AN Indian girl brought us a letter
written by Selian to her. It was in
Spanish and she could not read. IT was
a love letter, but 1t told us that he and
! three weeks journey distant. He had
| then six Indians as guides. We found
! in that village one or two Ind ans who
had been in tho party of six and they
said they had left Seljan because he
had not fed them. They said that an
| the men.
| 1T was not SO long thereafter thai
| we came upon Juliano. She said she
| had gone with the Iaen until one even
| NlS Sne was tTeeu ny u Dt.t-, lSh! camp
| While she was in the tree she nearC
some shots. She never stopped to in
| quire, but when the bear Hed she STRUCK
of through the jungle fo- home. We
followed the trail she Indicated sever
days and at last little distant from
the trail we found the ho2es # two
men, thigh bones. arm bones. and snai
bones, with evidences OF d nre.
! About that same time some Indians
appeared near Tquitos with tbs guns ant
clothing of the two men. They said
| they had bought them frorr the mer
! themselves. 1t is hard to imagine how
there can be any further inquiry. Th'
natives speak freely Of eating white
men and they cannot he punished.
u I'VE discovered these relics. buried
them, and then retraced our stops unu
| we struck the upper Amazon again
Thereafter until we reached navigabl'
, waters we had no further trouble"
! Captain BesIey will remain in New
: York for a few days and then will e
to California, where he has 4 home. II,
will return to England later in th'
spIing.