The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-04-02
Dangers ua These Scientific AdtenetS Their Jungle Exploration?
Scientists Are OFF Nicaragua Collect Specimens nsp
Thousand and One Enemies the Explorer These Two Men Have

Tho north star is lost Even the
heavens are changing with the nl'ci.
ations that como over tnr shores.
Slowly the southern cross Hli7 above
the horizon and foaJnory troud'l
palms have taken thr places of our
northern forest giants
Tho tropiC. Tho uIr I9 soft ana
fragrant with tho breath uf IL vono-
tatlon which no FROST has ever
touched and through 10 shoot living
flames iu feathers which Vie with
orchids bon beauty OF ruIuIuE. a.
the shores slip past. glory Hii,r Hioi.
grcrtH the eye Iu u riot uI color ana
n sheen Uf Etu'u.
4 drcamland OF bounty whore ma
turc. Ike vampire. uuIiH DO" visitor
with pagUauty of color ana u
promise OF luxury bohud which
turks death. dDnln in tNu slow mist
tina, rises from the dead water. death
in the war cry OF mosquito. death
that ,rawls loo long FbuOuH wind
ings 10 the Wuugin of the stream ana
there wuits with Its uub'iukinR snake
eyes for q victim TO- crush II is "a
land NJ soft beauty aud hard death.
Death in "a spotted coat pIuWls the
nislea OF the forest in the Hlapu of %
iaFuar the most powerful ttH size
considered aud tcrpDious - all the
cat family Tho hushmattor, tho
largest and most deadly ol all west
ern hemisphere scrpoutH. whips
his long coils from tho blk eats path.
lie knows Monsters Of the water,
crorodilcs and alligntora. push lazy
heads through the lily pads ana bc'
meath thom dart fishes only a spun
or so long which will tear lo ribbons
any animal which ventures near.
The uuwary traveller dangling q hand
over the side OF canoe may luHU
finger between the yuruDiOus jaws 81
ono Of these little fish, winch are va
riously known ns pirauha and piraya
(Scrrasn
But the porils of the tropic forest
arc lightly held by Wharton Huber,
assistant curator Of the Academy ~
Natural Sciences of Philadelphia,
aud his friend, j. Fletcher Street, an
architect aud mombcr of the aoad.
emy. They are Off to the Wilds of
Nicaragua TO guthcr specimens.
MIR. Huber went because he finds
nothing rife moro Compt lliugly IN
toresting than natural history, nud
believes that the sending out OF VX-
petitions all over the sovcn seas is
today one Of the greatest functions
of the American academies Of Untu-
raj sciences. His trOphl,s Wlll he
thologist: birds ~ brilliant plumogo
aud infinite variety For tho acad-
cmy needs Nlcaraguan birds to COM
TIcto the collection which to my un-
initiated eye seemed already so com
prchonsivc.
Resides birds. they vii collect
butterflies OF gorgeous Colurlng, Cu-
rious frogs and rare snakes. They
VIII search for land and ircsn water
shells, as well as man large mann
mails. A tapir, an armHdilio. n hum
ming bird, ~ whito-fnccd monkey
wild hog, a parrot, "a ecclot IA capy-
bara or an Hgout-all these and
many more they hope to bring back
60 further the research work Of the
academy. TO keep for loan or muao-
um use.
There VIII bo need n skillful
woodcraft clever trapping ana good
shooting: thcre will be necessity for
fearlessncss ana common sense, Rs
well as for scientific knowledge OF
many sorts. This journey In In real
fly for the cause OF science, yet IL
will hold elements OF pura romance
and adventure which seem scarcely
OF 1922.
stereotyped travel Il abandoned
after one leaves tho boat that goes
from New Orleans TO Bluetields. Me-
aragua. There Mr.. Huber and Mr..
Street step aboard a curious old
schooner which will amble its way
up the ninety miles OF coast to the
Prlncapolka river; there thcy will be
met by Indians, CRribs probably. who
have come down the river IN pitt
pans. something like the GugOuts OF
the early North American Indians.
These they make from the trunks OF
trees and hollow them by turning.
In these pit-pnus the party viii
sleep every night and travel every
day, for the Mosquito coast offers no
sight OF human habitauOn for five
days at least nor does the black,
slimy marsh afford an alluring land
ing place. The banks on both sides
OF the dark waters are a thick and
almost impenotrahlo mass of tropical
forest, not unlike the banks OF tho
Amazon, Here are the tall india
rubber and mahogany trees. with IL
anas hanging In loops like the dis
ordered tackle OF a ship, From al
most every tree hangs long gray
moss. which MIR. Huber will use for
stuffing his bird specimens.
The adventurcrs viii stop TO study
Pearl lagoon. which is a marvellous
realization OF all the dreams OF tho
collector OF water birds, Mr.. Huber
Is elated at the thought OF what
awaits him here. for DR.. e. w. Rich-
mond, curator OF birds In the Ma
tional museum, has told him that Il
sight OF the Pearl lagoon, as he drift
ed In n boat many years ago, has
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