Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-07-04
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~ law Of AN eye for an eye" multiplied TOR
an eye. was revealed recently when naked,
ieVer-Wrackcd, blinded but still living men mis@,
Io seven years We're brought into the Paraguayan oa
tier post Of Forth General Toledo in the Chaco
The tale Of the Incredible torures through
which these had passed was told by Arnaido Fss-s
Harra Chilean oil and chinchona prospector who
led party Of 20 adventurers Jungle Of Tho Gran
chaco IN the carly Winter Of 1888
Told quick bursts words followed by lorg pcoaa
OF silence as EscheNarra gathered his thoughts nto
hercnt order the Of the strange expedition rs 90,
of the grmmest ever 10 out Of the hidden land,
The party had penetrated deep into the jungle hc-
cause EsehevaTria wanted get into untraye.c3 -I
unreported country where he believed there wa ,,tr
chance Of finding wells and chinchona grove.
They had not expected any difficulty Indiana
who normally would not interfere with large, ard
"eI-armed party and It was this over-confdcac' ha.
led To the tragedy
When they reached urcxplored country a guar wa7
maintained a. night but many Of the men guImbrI at
this duty one night the slept the Adventures
were seized IN their hammocks by brawny painted war
rors Almost before they had awakened they bound
tightly with tough Llama vines, Their captors
had-loolung lot, from tribe with which neither
Eschevarra nor his companions familiar
The prisoners prodded to their with gtort7
wood spears and driven along Jungle trail AZ AXE
neck pace. When a stumbled or fell a lab V.th q
spear or blows from club brought him to his feet
Esohcvarra and his veteran companions were puzzled
by the actions OF their capors Usually hostile Indians
falling upon white camp for loot killed al once
and without conjunction. But these strange warriors
had other plans which the harred explorers to
When the 20 men reached the Indians communal -,.
aee they marched judgment before one Of tho
most terrible figures they had seen.
The chiefs name Chitiamba and he smoke f7,rt,
utc't cbe Spanish He over six and one-r7'r s,
height his face mdeously painted with red asf..
ofe' dye and his eye cleaned at them baefuIv Sow
cral deep dIsEurcd his face
white men" he said know that C71tian,ba elrof
Of the lqupos have been waiting long tmo far vpf~
coming am gong to let you 80. But first I am eor;
20 tell You story.
MANY years apo ,.as cont b, my, father -L..r
learn from the white But found they had con-
tempt and scorn for the Indo one day on narrow
road met a white man on horse out Of my wav
dog Of an 1ndio he shouted He raised his whip hal
little balls Of lead the tip-and me In The
face When he had passed but half man on
Of those lead balls had crushed my eye Since then I
have been waiting for white men"
With this he made sign the Indians threw The e0
Adventures TO the ground Others brought lengths
of wet rawhde with two heavy in each thor,
These were bound around the heads Of the prisoners
such fashion that the mems eyes The
oaptves left lying the hot sun
Eschcvarria and his companions realized what wound
happen 90 them. Chitiamba gong 10 claim 50 ct,
for the which the white mans whip had deprived
him. Wet raWhde shrnks powerfully that Il 10 ,ara
bile Of breaking stout sticks when bound around them
Little by little the rawhde thongs shrarli. Tho
knots driven deeper and deeper the mems eye
balls EsShevar1a found himself unable describe tho
scene of agony which cnsued in that Jungle clearing
Ch'iamhT and his warriors watched impassvelv
When all 20 had been blinded their eyehals rod
they led into tho Jungle their Llama bonds the
binding thongs removed There the Indians left them
What followed vas a horror slow starvation ~ at
tacks helpless blinded by jaguars and pln.s
thirst, the naddcnng attacks OF insects after
another they died The rest lived fruits which
poisoned them. roots, leaves Finally only
manned alive. Eschevarria, Johann Heiss, Austrian
Fcrdnandho Souza Brazilian, and Pablo Montcyar an
other Chilean These four dashed themselves together
vines and led by the unglewse Eschevsrria. cIn
ttuucd 10 tumble through the dense underbrlsh.
When found by the patrol the barely alive
They had all Of and had almost fo-l often
how TO speak mtellsiby.