Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-23
BY HERBERT SPENCER DICKEY,
MD, AND HAWTHORNE DANIEL.

IL
-v HE new manager, Meave, went mad
with the lust for cruelty and the
whole CHASTITY regime began again.
Murder, is obvious from the
Easement report, was nothing to the
brutes of the Putumayo and had suggested
that wanted to leave, there is no doubt in
my mind that would have been killed.
It Is possible, Of course, that in that am
wrong, but I certainly was convinced of it at
4. the time, so I did not resign Instead, ar
ranged with old friend Of mine-a Weetoto
named Keysha, who owed me many favors and
in whom had complete confdence-to keep
canoe hidden in . little stream that ran close
to his hut, which lay about an hours walk from
La Chorrera. Every few days strolled down
to Keysha's hut, carrying with me tins OF beef
condensed milk and other odds and ends neces-
Sary for an extended trip.
I decided to wait until the next arrival of
the company's steamer Liberal, before attempt
ing my escape and when the Liberal appeared
she brought an additional reason for my prompt
exit. This surprising arrival was a copy Of the
London Daily Mail, overseas edition, sent to
me by . British friend at Manaos.
ON the front page was an article. made up
of what purported to be excerpts from q
letter written by me to Sir Roger Easement,
which Easement had read before select COM
mittee" Of Parliament The fact was that this
So-caIled letter was taken directly from q manu-
i easement
manuscript that had asked him to hold and
under no consideration to publish. It may be,
OF course, that he had not received my message
concerning it-either that or he had definitely
gone mad.
Everything said in the manuscript was per-
2 3fectly true. but its publication under the cir
cumstances verged on calamity. Among other
things, connected two of the of1cials of the
Peruvian Amazon Co. with several murders
one as an accomplish after the fact, and the
okk1o
of Robuchon, the French explorer, who, in his
explorations of the Putumayo, had found out
too much about conditions there and conse-
quently hal disappeared mysteriously
These two men were still connected with the
company, and were at IquitOS II had had
any doubts regarding the desirability of my
prompt departure from La Chorrera, this sur
prise eliminated them completely. Fortunately
had the only copy of the Daily Mail that
rived at La Chorrera and was sure nobody
there knew yet Of the accusations I had made
There was q means Of communication be-
tween Iquitos and the Putumayo other than
the river. It was a hard trail that made its
way by land and by small streams but it had
been used on important occasionS-such the
necessity of tipping of employees that warrants
were out against them-and I had no doubt
that the officials at Iquitos would consider my
y detection an occasion sufficiently important to
warrant the use Of that tral.s
consequently did not waste any time after
the Liberal had left, carrying with her the
greatest amount Of rubber ever collected in any
three months In the companys history re-
suit that showed that forced labor, foggings
and other brutalities not exactly out Of
style.
The steamer hardly out of sight down
the Igaraparana when sent my houseboy to
my friend Keysha with message. The mes
sage was one word-"Hareekeena"-hu The
boy did not know what 1t meant, but KeySha
did. We had arranged that long before.
waited for three hours for the boy to re-
turn. When he did not appear In that time
knew that something was wrong so set out
to look for him. First / stuffed two hundred
pounds in British fve-pound notes into my
pocket Then took my pump gun from its
rack and set out
Besides the money in my pockets there was
one other important item. AS view the mat
= ter today can see reasons why should not
have had Il, bat there It was-a pint bottle Of