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Eldridge Reeves Fenimore Johnson,* chief backer of Captain Vladimir ("Vovo") Perfilieff's Matto Grosso expedition, was at Descalvados, their base camp, with a chartered Sikorsky amphibian last week. They will use the plane to scout for animals they wish to capture. Alexander Siemel, jaguar-spearer, was limping gingerly. An alligator chewed his leg in March. Two members of the party were back at their homes-John Newel, Augusta, Mich, radio and talkie man, weakened by sunstroke; and William E. Green, amateur taxidermist of Trenton. N. J., poisoned by bites of insects and the jararaca snake...
Hunting for Col. P. H. Fawcett, who disappeared in the Matto Grosso four years ago, has become almost a profession in itself. Alexander Siemel, now at the southwestern edge of the great forest, was a onetime Fawcett searcher. His onetime companions in the jungle were Mamerto Urriolagoitia. Bolivian consul general at London, and Julian Duguid (Green Hell). As soon as Consul Urriolagoitia gets his vacation from London this summer he will join Author Duguid for another search of the forest...
Urriolagoitia was Bolivian consul general in London but had never been in the eastern wilds of his own country. Bee-Mason was an Arctic cinematographer. Duguid had never been outside Europe. Luckily for the expedition they had not gone very far into the jungle when they ran into Alexander Siemel (TIME, April 13, et ante) whom Duguid calls Tiger-Man because he is a famed jaguar hunter (South Americans call jaguars tigers). Siemel saw them through many a tight place...
...endurable; but once swarms of ihenni flies kept them sleepless for 90 hours. Their mules, exhausted by travel, were nearly finished off by vampire bats. One time Duguid, night-enveloped, riding the trail alone, was halted by two blazing eyes. He was sure it was a jaguar, but Siemel convinced him afterwards it must have been a couple of fireflies; no land animal's eyes are auto-luminous. They met some hostile natives and for a while were surrounded by them, expected to have to fight their way out, but the savages melted away before their watchfulness...
Dominating character in Green Hell is Alexander Siemel. Duguid paints a respectful portrait of him, gives some account of his early life. A Russian, Siemel worked as a printer on a Buenos Aires newspaper, left town when he fell in love with his best friend's wife. He worked in the forests as a woodcutter among the Indians, liked it so much he decided to stay. He learned jaguar-hunting from an Indian spearman, turned hunter himself. He has bayonetted many a "tiger" after cornering it with his dogs. He told Duguid a grim story: Siemel's brother...