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Getting Specimens For 1European MuseumsCollector In Brazil Tells Of CapturingAnacondas Siiri'ing stories of struggles villi monster Anacondas 111 the Amazon are told by Antonio Bergolt, who captured the ’MO-footer’’ recently installed at the London Zoo.Acting as coll eel or in Brazil for G. Bruce Chapman, F.X.S.. it is the business of Mr. Bergelt to secure specimens of such creatures as are likelyto interest visitors to European menageries.t! In the Amazon his canoe was twice1 /I upset, and the parly had io swim for the shore surrounded by the huge snakes, which spend most of theirI1t111 . .unie m the river.1i“1 had as companions on the expedition an Englishman named Morris andhalf a dozen Indians.” said Air. Bor- 1* •gelt, “and whilst, passing Maroyo is-j t land 011 the Amazon, we noticed the! head of a large Anaconda protruding j from the water.“The Indians have a great dread of j 'these snakes, and, becoming panic-stricken, they upset; the can00, pitching us all in 10 the river..“On reaching the bank-we watched the movements of the Anacondas and found that they congregated in the water under a tree trunk, spanning acreek like a bridge.“Here they were quite si ill with their heads above the surface, so we fashioned a pole with a noose at the end and, clambering along the fallen tree, caught one round the neck and ;1hauled it to shore, where we tied ifto a tree until we had constructed a box to put it in.Mr. Bergelt explained that Anacon-cdas rarely atalek man unless interfered with, but lie recorded an ex-• *ception.“A mounted messenger conveying a large amount of money from one town to another had been missing forsome days,” lie said. “A search party• # «found his horse grazing in a clearingof the forest. Nearby a huge Ana-%conda was basking in the sun. The parly killed the snake and upon opening it they found the body of 1he unfortunate M messenger,. :vv:with-A-- boots;:-w’* ; - ■ . . . • --i-t---- ‘.. '. . ..cl011 iing; and cquipmcntyintacL^ The• - **.; *. • -.-*-••• ^ 'S'- 'ctr r»11 11 V ’ ViV nriv/'lvi ’•_* '■J ‘.A-— - ■ ■ — - . ■■ ■ - • *«.. .-v •- - •*/ Ay--../.-.am
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Fernie Ledge
Fernie, British Columbia, CA
Thu, Aug 21, 1924
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