The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-02-05
LIFE IN W|LDS OF
 PARAGUAY UNIQUE, WR|TESF. B. MORRIS
Cullman Man Tells of Sec ton of World Where White Man Has Never Before
 Penetrated

| Frank B. Morris of Cullman has writ ten very interesting letter from Camp Miguel, Paraguay South America. It is sent to The Age-Rerald by Mrs F. B. | Morris and is especially interesting this
 morning, as MT. Morris says the ther-
 mometer was 1O4 in the shade on the day his letter was written. It reads as | follows:
 Camp Miguel, Paraguay, S. A. Well at last am deeper into the in- terior than any white man has ever been. The country is unknown and has a great future. How far that future is we can only wait and see, but it is sure Everywhere we find Indians Our camp l is infested with them When we move 10 to 30 string out behind and follow to 1 the next stop. Today there are 27 in camp members of four different tribes, each tribe speaking a different language. They are really most interesting, es- pecially my guide, who talks about five 1 of the languages and is very bright. His sense of direction is absolutely unerring and after I gave him a shirt, pair of trousers and hose, he hit the trails to
 
 | friendly sign and telling them how inn portant we are. Some of the girls are quite pretty, but wear no clothes except a small breech cloth. The men mostly wear only a string of beads made into a band around the head Greek fashion, and sometimes an aigrette stuck into band. They will work week for piece of cloth a yard square and we have several bolts brought for the purpose Also cheap cigars, get 1 ting $10 worth of work for 10 cents worth ! of junk. & Some are wonderful shots with bow and arrow, so we get them to show us their skill, much to their delight. Every new camp 1 give an exhibition of shoot 1 ing with rifle and revolver, then get them | to show us archery. My high power gov ernment rifle shoots through big trees, i iimpressing the natives greatly, which all helps our cause, though they are not at l all dangerous so long as they have noth- | ing to drink. They make a deadly booze of wild honey and the juice from a palm l tree, but fortunately can get the honey l only in January ana February "An English Missionary society has come in down southeast of here and l they have taught the natives to raise | and spin cotton, raise sugar, keep cows and to live in one place for years, while the uncivilized ones live in one | place till the game is exhausted. then | move to other parts. Why eat only game and part of a palm tree though as we feed from IS to 20 every day it shows they like other food.
 Tt is wonderful game country; we killed six deer, two wolves, three l foxes one ostrich and more ducks than l 1 can count.
 | The mosquitoes are terrible; both day and night, but none of the stego- myia. They bite while we ride during l the day. but at night we go to bed at | 6 or T. at dark, and the mosquito bars are of thin bed shooting because of a I tiny gnat called the polverino. so small | it could get inside any other kind of covering. They say in the rainy season this pest work daytime, too, so that pleasure is added too, the whole coun- try being flooded.
 "The other night we went to an h. dian dance. Only the men dance, in paint and feathers-singing or rather grunting, around the fire grunting a song and moving heads and bodies in time and all nude.
 T took a flashlight with gunpowder and when the smoke cleared away, round that all the Indians had hit for the woods and were armed. After per- suasion they came back and finished the dance.
 There are lots of airgettes in this country, but against the Paraguayan
 law to take out and the United States
 law to bring in.
 For the past 10 days. the thermome-
 ter has registered 104 in the shade, but
 in spite of all the drawbacks, this is
 wonderful country and a country
 with big future"