Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-12-13
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| ChauyanDes Said-within the first
! days march out of the forest. Here
they remained.
"Chauvannes had all the modern
implements that an explorer carries
with him, and he laid down h ex-
act location of this camp with the
most painstaking accuracy. 1t was
| charted in the journal in hall a
| dozen different forms and checked
in every variety of a He seemed
to have spent a lot of time at this.
| He was determined that the exact
spot of this camp should De definite
ly located for all time and beyond
any possibility of error. He did
not fail. The exact location of that
! camp is as certain as any boundary
| monument on our Belgian frontier.
It can be located today within the
error of half q meter. He had plenty
of time for this, because he remain
ed in this camp with Lecture while
| the other men went on to the NY
ANA.
1.-THE rouXe to the lake could not
. laid out to the eye. 1t was d.
! rectly below a marked rocky pro-
montory of the skyline. But the men
with Chauvannes thought it better
to be certain of the way out, and as
IneV udQ IL put IA Wv N@AAS
the boat arrived, it seemed advisa-
BILE to go over the route. The Amer
lean beachcomber Dix and the Finn
set out for the Albert, Leturc re-
naming in the camp with Chau-
vannes
at was here alone with Leturc
that Chauvannes finished the jour
nal, which I finally decided, as one
might say, at the Service de la
Surete in Paris.
"I have said that the only thing
Indicating Chauvannes' condition
before the seventeenth of December
when they came out or the old ele-
phant-track into this heavenly coun-
try below the Albert, was the fact
that he could not sleep and that the
bromides had failed him. But this
was not precisely all. The journal
began to indicate a state of mind in
Chauvannes that he apparently hes
itated a long time to record, the i'm
preston that they were approaching
some sort of creature of which they
had very little, If any, dependable
information.
"At first Chauvannes put this
down as an illusion arising from
the depression of insomnia. But he
began to speak Of it later as a sort
of definite premonition to be reck-
oned with.
"Of course, when the journal FIRST
came into our possession, we took
this, and the incredible things that
followed, to be merely the illusions
of a man whose nervous system had
broken down. This was a profound
error. Every statement following in
the journal was, as it proved, of the
most definite importance. One got
here at this point in the journal a
pretty clear conception of the con
dition of C~hauvannes at the time.
"The three with him, whose care, |
devotion and untiring solicitude are,
as 1 have said, the persistent note
of this latter part of Chauvannes'
journal, were now very much con-
cerned about him. They seemed to
understand the danger, to himself,
of one in such a mental state, for
they secured and destroyed all the
ammunition to the private weapons
which Chauvannes carried; they
ever broke the blades of the knives.
They appeared to realize that a
homicidal seizure might develop
from such a mental condition, and
they seemed to fear that it might
take the course of a suicidal mania.
1ney were WnOlIy without rear Tor
themselves, IS C~hauvannes' journal
repeats over and over again.
1T is here, now, at this point,
that the whole journal of Chau-
vannes' begins to be taken up with
the extraordinary things that he OBJ
served. The impression OF some
strange creatures close on the camp,
in the neighborhood, became an OBJ
session.
cit was on the first night in the
new camp after they had emerged
from the forest that Chauvannes
had a sensation, as he puts it, of
something delicately feeling over his
face. 1t seemed to be a very slight,
moving touch, as of the tip o. a
feather, but it was clearly distin-
guishable. The man put up his
hand and made a swift gesture in
the darkness about him., but there
was absolutely nothing that he could
touch. He says that this thing hap
pened more than once in the night,
and each time, although he put out
his hand instantly, it came in en-
tact with no physical evidences of
any creature about him.
1.-THE thing occurred again the