Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-11-23

As the party chung to the overturned
dugOut sharks thrGshed the tUater inn0
a Unite foam, and 1t tUGs not until the
guide sOas missed that the others real.
lied his terrible fGte.
have saved q gun, but the camera was bor-
rowed. When I came up. hung ON 70 piece
Of baggage that was floating by. The oEhess
were hanging TO the boat on their stomacha
I swan over 10 It and rested my free hand ON
Dr. Brinton's leg and passed the camera to him.
We managed to tie It with rope from the bow.
which was floating on the water. In the same
way We saved the As pistol, letting it trail -
the water. At this point Emilio, the guide.
transferred himself from the boat to rubber
bag-part Of the baggage-which floated by. Ha
foated on this for some time, until shortly after
the sharks appeared" With much less excite.
ment in his voice than one tells Of a grand-slaM
hand at bridge, the major proceeded:
"At the time q strong current pulling M
toward the ocean. The sharks circled, but kepe
at distance Of so or 20 feet. You see, we had
no dead fish nor were we injured in any wac
to have brought the blood, which excites then
appetites. and It was our good luck that the1
weren't apparently very hungry at the time,
Suddenly one after the other of us missed
Cache. and there was never another sign a
him. So much baggage was af1oat that wo
couldn't ten which had been his raft. He may
have been cut which attracted the sharks, bue
the fact remains that he was gone, and only
the silence to tell the tale. We couldn't Yigtt
the boat. There was only one chance, and tha9
was to remove the outboard engine, which W
had so carefully attached with screws and rcpa.
Walstead went 10 the stern ar worked under
water with his hands. He was the engine man
and so felt responsible for the engine. We he2A
him mp q he worked. and after an eternity no
finally got one screw and then the others lOOsa
luckily had my hunting knife in my belt. -
the rope was easily cut, and with much regreb
we had to turn loose q perfectly good enginA
1t wasn't very hard now to pull the boat oven
But our paddles were gone with the rest Of tn0
paraphernalia discovered two pieces Of ham,
boo on the bottom Of the boat, placed there
4 feet long. SWAshed around with these
while DR.. BrintOn used my campaign hat 70
bail out the boat.
"Nestor, who could scarcely swim, hung On
the sides with pipe upside down between In
teeth. We watched that pipe all the time, aA-
vising him to hang On 70 It. It was the barOmAs
eter of his grit
Finally We got enough water out for two a
US to climb In, hauling In the others. We thez6
used the two pieces Of bamboo as our paddles
and headed for shore, having saved the camerA
and the As. We tied the camera in the boaA
to the crosspiece. She didn't upset, and wo
landed through the breakers high on the beach.
where we walked until we found native hut
Honduran woman I'm charge took us in and
PIT us up Tor the night. We hunted up and
down the coast the next day for the guide.
I'VE reported the loss Of Emilia to the Local
but no trace Of him was ever
found We made our way from there back On
. barge loaded with bananas towed up by O
gasoline boat 10 the end Of the rails and from
there We went 10 sico our headquarters"
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