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Jungle Route, The by Frank W. Kravigny 1940 Survivor’s Edition Hard Cover
Jungle Route, The by Frank W. Kravigny Hard Cover 1940 Survivors Edition
The Jungle Route
Frank W. Kravigny
Hard Cover
234 Pages
Copyright 1940
** Survivors Edition 1st Printing
Contents
FOREWORD Xiii
INTRODUCTION ......... . XVii
CHAPTER I: UNDER THE SOUTHERN CROSS . .
A LETTER AND A NEW JOB-HURRIED PREPARATIONS FOR A 4,000 MILE TRIP-S.S. SERGIPPE-JELLY FISH-A BADGER FIGHT-WHERE ARE WE GOING AND WHY?-WE VISIT BARBADOS-COALING THE SHIP-SAILING WITH THE SOUTHERN CROSS-THE DELTA OF THE AMAZON.
CHAPTER II: FROM PARA INTO THE UNKNOWN . 19
A WEEK OF WAITING-ENCOUNTER WITH THE MILITARY-THEATRO DA PAZ-UP THE AMAZON -DOWN WITH DYSENTERY-WE REACH "THE. HULK"-A NEW FRUIT-THE "MAD MARY"-ON THE MADEIRA RIVER-MOSQUITOES AND MOSQUITO BARS-OUR FELLOW PASSENGERS: GAL-LEGOS AND CATTLE-TARGET PRACTICE-DEAD ALLIGATORS-BIRD LIFE-TEMPERATURRS-THE LAST 500 MILES TO PORTO VELHO-YELLOW FEVER ON BOARD-WE ARE QUARANTINED.
CHAPTER III: AT THE TERMINAL 30
LANDING AT PORTO VELHO-MEETING WITH NIG-GLI-MY NEW HOME-WORK BEGINS-THE QUININE DAZE-MERRILL-"HOMBRES" AT WORK AND PLAY-A NEWSPAPER IS BORN-4TH OF JULY IN THE JUNGLE-I BECOME A NEWSPAPER MAN-AMONG OTHER THINGS.
CHAPTER IV: THE FIRST SIX MONTHS ARE THE
HARDEST 47
LABOR TROUBLE-THE GERMANS ARRIVE-THE GERMANS LOSE THEIR HEADS-SCORE ONE FOR THE NATIVES-A SUNDAY ADVENTURE-TRAIN WRECK-A WILD RIDE-BATTALONE NE TRIP-TERMITES AND TIES.
CHAPTER V: STILL ON THE JOB 63
SAN ANTONIO-RUBBER BARONS-THE GRAVEYARD OF 1878-THE "COLONEL CHURCH"-CO NSTRUCTIO N PROGRESS,-LO MBARD-DISEASE AND DEATH-THE BATTLE OF MEDICINE-AT CANDELARIA HOSPITAL-FLYING DEVILS.
CHAPTER VI: I MOVE OUT ON THE LINE . . . 82
MY DEPARTURE INTO THE JUNGLE-CAMP 8-WITH THE MULE CAVALCADE-FREE MASONS OF THE AMAZON-CAMP 16-BOILED WATER-ON TO JACI-HUNTING EQUIPMENT-ARRIVAL AT THE JACI CAMP-SNAKES AND CRICKETS-THE WAYS OF THE ARMY ANT-MESS HALL.
CHAPTER VII: AT JACI PARANA 95
PERSONNEL OF THE CAMP-SHOWER BATHS AND QUININE- MANOEL AND MULES - MANOEL COMES TO GRIEF-THE CAMP HUNTER-STALKING WILD GAME-ALONE IN THE JUNGLE JUNGLE BIRDS-JUNGLE GIANTS-CAMP COOKERY-EGGS AND MORE EGGS.
CHAPTER VIII: OUR JUNGLE NEIGHBORS . . . 113
RUBBER GATHERERS-THE STORY OF RUBBER-SOME CARIPUNA INDIANS-MERRILL MAKES A
TRADE-A VERY SICK INDIAN-A VISIT TO A BRAZILIAN CAMP-MINE HOST AND HIS FAMILY-NATIVES AND SAVAGES.
CHAPTER IX: MORE JACI EXPERIENCES . . . . 127
MERRILL'S TIGER-WATER TRAVEL-CAULDRON OF HELL-OUR UNSEEN ENEMIES-THE BOLIVIAN BANDITS-A NARROW ESCAPE-RAILROAD MEN ARE A HARD LOT-PAY DAY AND POKER-MAIL FROM HOME.
CHAPTER X: TRANSFER TO CAMP 20 . . . . 144
I LEAVE JACI-A MILK-DRINKING R.R. MAN-JIM TARVER AND THE DIAMOND HITCH-A MUDDY MULE TRIP-CAMP 20-LOST IN THE JUNGLE-NEVER ARM AN INDIAN-A HECTIC JOURNEY-TWENTY-THREE FEET OF SNAKE-WHEN IS A SNAKE NOT A SNAKE-BUTTERFLIES -JUNGLE FAUNA AND FLORA-CAMP DWELLINGS.
CHAPTER XI: THE LAST MONTHS 156
HALLEY'S CO MED-A "BLACK PANTHER"-THE RAINY SEASON -RESTLESSNESS- NIGGLI ARRIVES-I SETTLE MY ACCOUNTS-FREE AT LAST -AM I A LUCKY MAN ?-BACK IN PORTO VELHO -PORTO VELHO CHANGES-FIRST TASTE OF FREEDOM-AMONG MY SOUVENIRS.
CHAPTER XII : FAREWELL TO THE JUNGLE . . . 174
ON THE S.S. OTERI-LAZY DAYS-FATE CATCHES UP WITH ME-MALARIA IN EARNEST-BARBADOS IDYLL-A GLIMPSE INTO THE FUTURE VIA LINOTYPE-NEW YORK SAILING-NIGHTMARES AND WHALES-IN HARBOR.
CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE 186
BIBLIOGRAPHY 191
INDEX OF ILLUSTRATIONS . .. .... 197
APPENDIX 205
INDEX 231
It was in the latter part of 1937, that I received a letter from Edgar Smith, now a prominent engineer of New-portville, Pennsylvania. It brought to my mind, out of the distant past of almost thirty years before, one of my associates in this jungle adventure, of which we were both among the few survivors.
His letter, proposing a search for other survivors of the Madeira-Mamore Railway Expedition, and the establishment of some sort of association of these men, resulted in a meeting in New York City. Here it was suggested that a historical sketch of the expedition would make an ideal souvenir for the reunion of the survivors, to be held at the New York World's Fair in 1939.
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