Word: spearman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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, who lived with his wife and little son in Cuyaba, Brazil, had a German enemy. The German hired a gunman to shoot Siemel...