Evening star. [volume], April 05, 1937, Page A-7, Image 7

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EXPLORER ELS
Chattering, Creeping Life in
Silent Forests of
Venezuela.
The experience and discoveries of
M expedition into the Perija
mountain region of Venezuela,
where savage Indians resist all en
croachments of civilization, are told
here in a series of four articles, of
which this is the second. The
writer, an experienced explorer, is
professor of genetics at Syracuse
University.
BY DR. ERNEST REED.
MARACAIBO. Venezuela. March S
courier from the Perija Moun
tain*) .—Arising at 3 a m., we set out
from Maracaibo an hour later in an
old automobile, which, with its owner,
we had hired for our expedition. Our
raute lay in a direction slightly west
of south and our goal for the day was
the village of Machiques, a distance
of but 80 miles. This is at the foot
of the Perija Mountains in the valleys
of which live the Indians w’e were
seeking.
The trail is through forests, jungles
and over plains. The soil is a sandy
rtlay, mostly sand. Many low-lying
outcrops of rock are on every hand.
The trail is 80 miles of deep holes,
tuts, rocks, and bridgeless streams.
It reminded me of no man's land
In the World War after several artil
lery bombardments.
We got well under way in the dark
ness of night and the silent forests
hugged us on both sides. As the dim
light of morning crept over the .sky,
the silent forests awoke with chatter
higs and songs of many kinds of
birds and the jungles took form in
large trees entwined with vines. The
undergrowth was thick with high,
tangled shrubs, ferns and vines; ab
•olutely impenetrable.
Jungle Proves Terrifying.
I do not wish to convey the impres
sion that all was beauty, for it does
not impress one that way. It is wild;
tt is nature under the tropical sun and
rains In vigorous entanglement. One
can’t escape the feeling that all this
profusion of life is all tangled up,
this being due to the great vines that
reach out like the arms of enormous
devil-fish firmly gripping all things.
It is not beautiful.
The evergreen or hardwood forests
©f the North are often beautiful, and
not at all like this jungle or profuse
life. There is no forest carpet here;
beneath the trees is the jungle, and,
winding and twisting throughout all,
the vines. It is awesome, unapproach
able, impenetrable and perhaps ter
rifying, for one knows of the snakes,
the spiders, ants, and myriad things
which exist in there in reality and
which become multiplied many times
In the imagination.
The many varieties of birds along
the trail break the impaling grip of
file jungle and keep one ever on the
alert to see their peculiar shapes and
sice* and gorgeous colors.
Our ear caught afire under the hood
after aereral hours of rough punish
ment. This gave us a short stop
In which to wander about. Though
we had not seen it, we found our
selves but a few yards from a bend
Jn the River Apon. Here, too, the
overhanding arms of the jungle trees
nlaimed everything, sand bars, fallen
logs of huge dimensions and rocks
Uttered the path of the flowing waters.
Birds were everywhere, long-legged
water birds, small sandpipers, red,
black, gray, yellow birds; birds of all
eolors. Parrots shrieked over us in
flocks.
Familiar Fungi Found.
On the other side of the trail I
dlmbed into the jumbled plant growth
but a few feet. Lizards scooted.
Among some rotten fallen logs I found
lungi and was curious to observe the
nature of these. They were of the
same genera as those occurring in
Northern forests. In but a few minutes
and within a small area I found the
sulphur-coiored Poiyporus (perhaps
the same as our genus sulphurous
because of the color); two other
Poiyporus forms of the fleshy, shelf
forming types, and a fourth, a flat,
fungous, undifferentiated in form, no
parts like a toadstool, but just a flat,
fungous mass, exactly like our genus
Poria which one so often sees rotting
the logs of bridges as one canoes
file streams of the Adirondack.?. It
grows mostly on the under, the shady,
aide of the log. Life forms are much
the same everywhere. The way the
forms commingle in communities of
life varies greatly and minor differ
ences of the species or varieties occur
In scattered and sometimes widely
•e para ted groups.
The vibrant heat of the tropical
•un increased as the day got under
way. The birds hid away in shady
fiooks and we, ever more silently and
listlessly, bumped on to Machiques,
which we reached at noon.
Machiques is a trading post. It
lies in a broad plain about 10 miles
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Primitive Indian Women and Children
A typical group of primitive Indian women and children found by the Reed Expedition in the
Rio Negre Valley in Venezuela.
from the foothills of the Perija Moun
tains. Cattle ranches commingle
with stretches of jungle throughout
the plain and Machiques is the trad
ing center for the ranchers, people of
very simple wrants.
An Unchanged Village.
This spread of dobe huts contingu
ous in rows forming streets, blistering
In the sun, this village of Machiques
has been there a long time. One
meets old people who were born there
and the town is still older, much older.
One wonders about it, a melancholy
wonder. Why do people live here?
This village, this group of human
habitations, undergoes no change. It
could hardly have been more simple,
less complex, when first arranged as
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a few thatched shelters against the
blistering sun and tropical rains. Yet
it is civilized. It is the last outpost
of civilization and the border post
for the ranchers living on to the base
of the mountains of dreaded mystery
and savage Indians.
I doubt if there exists anywhere
such a narrow no man’s land as here.
There can hardly be a place where
civilized man lives abutted against |
the wild man, and this for gener
ations, without the one commingling
with the other. A stretch of 10 miles
of lowland lies before one as he looks
westward from Machiques to the
Perija Mountains. Wide-flung ranches
are civilized man’s antenna pene
trating this no-man’s land, and un
touched tongues of jungle stretch
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The ranchers themselves, occupy
ing salient points in no-man’s land,
are a type peculiar to the positions
they hold and the roles they play in
their unconscious participation in the
drama of human life on the earth.
Their life values are simple and body
comforts nil. The owners of these
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Maracaibo. They generally own big
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CITY NEWS IN BRIEF.
TODAY.
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