White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1916-06-18

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Il Wa Really the First Direct Corroh-
Grafton, Slight rs II Waa-
a way some ten miles above them.
where we anchored for the night. At
this point I reckoned that We had como
not less than q hundred miles up tn
tributary from the main stream
Il was IN the earty forenoon Of TIE
next day that we made the great d.
parture. Since dawn Professor ChaL
lenser had been scutely uneasy. con
tinualiy scanning each hank Of the riv-
er. Suddenly he gave m excaamatisa
Of s~atfzfactioo and pointed to . single
tree which projected ut . peculiar angie
over the side of the stream.
"what do Jon make Of tAatr' be
asked
1T Is surely an Assai palm" sid
Summeriee.
Exactly. 1t was an AHai palm
which I took for my landmark The
secref Opening Is half a mike onward
upon the other side of the river. There
Ii no break In tn. trees. That Is the
wonder and the mystery of H. There
where you zee light green ruslles in
stead of dark green underground, there
between the great cottonwoods. that Ii
my private gate into the unknown.
Push through and you will under
stand"
II was indeed a wonderful pince.
Having reached the spot marked by a
line of light green PUSHES. we poled
out two canoes through them for some
hundreds OF yards and eventually
emerged into a placid and shallow
stream. running clear and transparent
over a sandy bottom. Ii may have
beer twenty yards across and vas
banked In on each side by NEST iuxu-
RANT vegetation. Ne one who had not
observed that for a short distance
reeds had taken the place of shrubs
could possibly have guessed the exist
ence or such n stream OF dreamed Of
the fairyiand beyond.
For n fairyiand 1t WIS, the most
wonderful that the Imagination Of mnn
NOufu to1tCiff~ 4" III vCRtF6tIV8
met overhead. interiacing into q nat
ural pergoia. and through this TUNE,
Of ver1ure In n golden twilight flowed
the green, pellucid river. beautiful In
itself. but marvellous from the strange
tints thrown by the vivid light from
above. filtered and tempered In its fail
Clear as crystal, motionless as a sheet
OF glass. green as the edge Of an ice-
berg, It stretched In front of US under
its icafy archway. every stroke OF our
paddles sending q thousand ripples
asross fts shining surface. II was q
ftttng Avenue to n land of wOndera
An signs a the Indians huo passed
away, but animal life was more fire.
Quent. and the tameness of the crea-
lures showed that they knew nothing
of the hunter. Fuzzy little black vel
vet monkeys with snow white teeth
and giesming. mockins eyes chartered
ut VI as Ne passed. With q dull.
heavy splash an occasional cayman
plunged In from tho bank Once q
dark. clumsy tapir stared at N from
. gap fn the bushes and then lumber
ed away through the fosest. Oace. too.
the yellow. sinao1s form q q great
puma whiskei amid the ~brushwood.
and its green. haleful eyes Esared Ia
tired at m over Its tawuy shoulder.
Bird life WIS abundant. especially the
wading birds. stork. heron and ibis
gathering In little groups. blue, scar
LAT and xuhtfn pu~n or~Su lpxp xubtnh
jutted from the bank. while beneath
rs the crystal water was alive with
ash Of every shape and color.
For three days we made wi way
up this tunnel of hazy green sunshine.
On the longer stretches one could hard
ly tell as one booked ahead where the
distant green watnr ended and the
distant green archway bcgan. The
deep peace OF this strange waterway
was unbroken by any sign Of man.
No Indian here. Too much afraid.
Curupurt." said Gomez.
-Curupuri il the spirit Of tfc woods
ord John explained ITS n name
for any kind OF devil. The poor beg
gars thinks tirat there is something
fearsome In this direction, and there
fore they avoid it,
On the third dap It became evident
that our Journey IN the o could
not last much longer, for the stream
was rapidly growing more shallow.
Twice in Ms many bours we stuck upon
the bottom. Finally we pulled the
boats up among the brushwood and
spent the night on the hank OF the
river. In the morning Lord John and
| made our way for a couple OF miles
through the forest, keeping parallel
with the nruam, bit ~ II grew ever
shaiiower w rctsmod and reported.
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