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Edgar Garrison, Son of T. J. Garrison, of Denison, Has An Experience Seldom Equalied. FOR TWO DAYS WITHOUT FOOD Meets With Tribe of Indians and Eats Fish—Scales, Fins, Head and All—Loses Baggage. Mention was made in the J oint Weeks go that Edgar son of Mr and Mra. J. Garrison, did Jett for Port of Spain, ‘Trinidad, Where he expected to take part i the revolution now are on there, Last work hy parents feel motth toretting Jetter from hin mud trough those Kind nows we are ble to purchate the fetter in full, whilely WH be of In teralta Review’ readiny, ‘The letter follows: Port of Spain, Trinidad, tun Wi, TA, Dear Papa and Mam On Sunday, the TA, the dirtiest man that had come into Chulad, Holivar, for many jx moon came Lelumphantly Into that town. [say triumphantly, Inasmuch as he was allowed to enter. It was LT find on an old pair of shoes, a dirty pair of khaki trousers, 8 ragged old blue shirt with no but tons on ft and red together with string and held around the neck with it old bite handkerchie, one sock ! And a alt and a dilapidated tt and ho personal baggie of any kind. It made for the hotel which 1 ha sty led at a couple of months prior and After Informing them that 1 would clean up aml uke my mies in any room fr a few days until I could get some clothes made, 1 was allowed to remain. I had not shaved for two month and had w dew Mitty. Wous ache and chia whiskers from the corners of my mouth dowached with two full twiste, a la rope style at the pottons. Stall boys chased ye on the street and called out Kamit ala Heutgeh sprechen,” to which I re sponded, “Ich kan nicht deuigeh sprechen. TL lead to completely, toe my identity and forget who I was, went Into a barber shop to get shaved art T told the barber to shave the Aides of my Taco and eave my mous tache and my “inperial.” ‘The barber hesitated and asked me to wante the chin whiskers cut off and 1 told Hine no; he awked me te second time and | said “No; he asked me the third s times and sonid If they are ax bad no Tin it them off. which he did, Just prior to ectiluss Into the barber's ghalt, whit sittins next to fe xmall boy'ta the shop, the bay nald | Pugh! and epidly got away from me ani T have been wondering aineo! whether or not IC was a fact that someone had thrown i deat cat huto fatteet, but perhaps not, for I had not had my clothes off for over two weeks. Te made for the bath in the hotel and upon wadreasing found that I hind a running sore on my right aokle Ural Wax putrid and after clean ing up I made for a drug store and purchased some bichloride of mer cury and some listerine anit process ed to treat that anks, and at prose it has completely heated. The hand- Jord joined mne a sult of white lotion to wear and in hom I could recline fox When a finding wood walk all eight, but cout not sit down. Oh, I was swell all right, I am pol by Port of Spain and have been into my trunks and cleaned up fanty wets aire all too hiege mind can't wear them, aul a new surt of elites Whlele Wax too small for me when I left here is entirely too large for me. I love loxt twenty pounds Hieowgh starvation, but aun ams hard a Iron and have a color of dovatute and JE MoM T ware Hooked Hee In my fe ‘The reason for wy jaaly exit from Venesieht as a lone wax that on the 2501 of May T separated fom. my com panions becanke of personal differ encces with Taylor and decided to Bo ipale. TC asked them to take me In our boat to Canon Negro, from which winner L Was goltns a qake any Way by burro and boat to Paragua, but on the way to Canon Negro We met the Ti dians who some weeks prior had tak en us uh the fiver. Hid they told us Hat there was fghtnig at Paragua nn San Pedro and that Canon Negro War desveted and no way to Kot pat Unit place. PF decided that I would then go down the Curent river some hundred miles by boat to San Pedro and run the gauntlet aid IEE met revolutionise trst P would go with them one if the others wanted ie my surviews Were eatin to Chet. Hidding my former companion a Fondaction Estaurtend wit thay Tia ‘The following day we were cunning inside in the fiver and at the last one that day We started into the #trean When our of the Indians called “Por Worras” meaning for me to take to haut and porte and holding the Inuit by a branch of a teoe that had catmeht. I had been riding in the du out, Which Was made from a tree trunk with wating on that sliet and pinnty boon to win I ever had to, and I left the boat in that condition and walked thpomer the Jamal and ktool on 2 cock to Water them come through the rapide. While standin there I immediately saw that no boat could tive In that water and all at once my boat came tike ashort from and the turn and went kree home fille which were about ten feet ten and owing to the jewellen condition of the thvee toll ite F a beautiful sweep. Wit below the wa ters reared the tidal Waves some ten or fifteen feet high, while underneath the waters must have ran like from the tone nt howe, the boat went over the first wave, cut into the neck ond and the third Wfted for high hi the ale and turned her completely backward and drowned my boatman , and Inet everything I had on the ex pedition. Well, I snt down and smoked my Hawt pile of tobacco and ruminated ‘There | Was nearly 260 milex from Holmy and everything lost except money, which I had In my hip pocket. That day died nothing to eat, that night at dusk at 7 o'clock I picked out ome nice wall stones on the bank of ie Caront and passed the night, weep ing at soaking rain, and T never want w ghil to see daylight come in all my life. ‘The following day I passed the time on the banks of the Careni with nothing (9 vat, and in the after noon had the Indians ferry me across the river and after walking about 12 mije T made the Indian camp and de scribed to chem the mishap and got
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Denison Review
Denison, Iowa, US
Wed, Jul 15, 1914
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