Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1914-01-06
LOST IN THE ANDES
Scientist Returns With Story Of Won.
derful New Adventures.

oerIuI NeW AoSentuTeos
Bringing with him many specimens
valuable to science in flora, fossils and
Inca relics. the fruits Of months Of
hardships and privation on the snow
clad peaks Of the Andes and in the
sweltering jungle Of the Peruvian bor-
derland, Prof. Adolph Heldenberger,
naturalist, entomoligist and archeolo-
gist, as we'll as explorer, recently In
Brooklyn on the steamer Tennyson,
Of the Lamport & Holt line, says the
Brooklyn Eagle. The professor is en-
route to his home in Germany, where
he will arrive shortly after the new
year to spend a belated Christmas
with his family from whom he has
been separated for more than a year.
Prof. Heldenberger Is a graduate OF
the University Of Bonn, and as he
stood on the deck Of the Tennyson as
she steamed slowly up the bay, face
tanned the color Of mahogany. he
looked anything but one Of the race
with (which. one has learned to asso-
ciate stolidity.
I'm September, 1872" said the pro-
fessor, Il left Germany accompanied
by a young student, Friedrich NAH
ler upon an expedition Of scientific
research that was to take US over the
Andes, and II possible, We intended to
penetrate farther into 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 be-
fore striking the unknown.
with a party Of ten natives we be-
gan our ascent Of the Andes. Although
we were beset by the many difficulties
that accompany a journey of that kind
and came upon many ruins Of ancient
cities, we discovered nothing Of great
importance and met with but one mis-
hap when one Of our carriers fell into
a crevice carrying with him a llama
laden with a portion Of our camp kit.
Both were instantly killed.
Rising above the timber line we
entered the snow belt. Here we were re-
duced to the utmost suffering, for the
air, besides being greatly rarified, thus
making 1t difficult to breathe, was bit
terly cold. Prolonged effort would re-
suit in condition bordering on suffo-
cation, but regardless Of this fact,
knowing that we were approaching
the summit and would soon begin our
descent, we pushed rapidly forward.
Lost Four Months.
"a 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 on the Peruvi-
an border, containing few white men
engaged in the rubber trade, but COM
posed mostly Of a native population.
Arriving at Calleria, after weeks In
the jungle. we recruited a new force
and plunged into the unknown, and
from thenceforth we were lost to CIV
ilization for four months.
For three days the going was COM
paratively easy, for we followed the
native paths that formed a network
through the almost impenetrable for
est. Everywhere about us were giant
trees covered with vines draped in
great festoons that formed a forest
which had to be cleared with great
native knives welded by our carriers,
and it took us days to negotiate few
miles.
Crossing the Javari river we enter
ed the Province Of Uraycus, in Brazil.
On every side we were beset by dan
ger. Wild beast and reptiles abound
ed. Many Of these belonged to spe-
cies which I had never before seen.
The very grass harbored enemies. Tiny
IL cts, invisible to the naked eye,
would penetrate the clothing and i'm
bed themselves in the skin causing no
end of irritation. Some Of these were
really poisonous.
Our little party dwindled rapidly.
Snake bites and fever killed five of
our native carriers. From time 20
time we came upon what appeared at
one time to have been native villages.
We met a few stray savages In the
jungle, but they, for the most part,
appeared friendly and unafraid.
Women Deeoy Men.
1t was from one Of these that we
learned Of villages to the northward
inhabited solely by women, who de-
coyed men to them by the means Of a
wonderful tree, which exuded an odor
which no man could resist. The Won
derful properties Of this tree was the
peculiar quality Of its essence to at
tract the men, who, overcome BY the
fumes, fell in the forest unconscious,
where they were afterward found by
the women and taken to their village.
From this village, we were told, men