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Newspaper
Wichita Eagle
Location
Wichita, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jul 26, 1889
Page
7
A jagged OCR fragment presents a period style poem with phrases about wind, fear, power, and longing. It reads as a boundary text with inconsistent capitalization and garbled lines, offering little coherent narrative or named entities beyond generic imagery. The excerpt lacks clear events or identifiable subjects to anchor a fuller summary.
A small steam launch carries a party including a leader with a rifle as they drift up a Brazilian river network near the Amazon. They anchor near a hut after entering a side stream and join a diverse crew, amid tense talk of natives and treacherous terrain as they prepare to moor for the night.
Tourists trapped in a jungle hut come under savage attack as natives fire arrows and air guns. Engineer Bill and a bold plan with rifles and a noise-making boiler device spur a nighttime breakout, enabling captives to escape to a launch.
The text recounts humorous and awkward misunderstandings caused by severe near sightedness. Henry Gilbert mistakes strangers for acquaintances, including Mrs Miles, then faces comic corrective rejections, and ends by pleading with his sister to curb future gaffes. Tolstoy is described in a stark study of a bare, utilitarian workspace filled with papers and books.
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