PUTUMAYO OUTDONE.
UPPER- AMAZON HORRORS
(By Cable.—Prcea Association.—Copyright) LONDON, November 24. In connexion with tho new South American horrore a book called "The Green Hill" is exciting attention in Brazil. The cover portrays a naked Indian woman scored with cuts, whence her life-blood is drained into little tin cups used by rubber collectors. The book describes how South Brazilian natives aro persuaded to work m the Upper Amazon. They aro domiciled in a forest clearing, where they stop till they die, as they are put into debt for clothes and food, and are unable to secure sufficient rubber to pay off tho ruinous cost of. the food supplied. Tho density of tho jungle renders escape impossible. A traveller, ><fho voyaged from the Amazon to Bolivia, states that fi v o hundred lashes are a common punishment. A woman was cruelly beaten at Beni for upsetting lamps. Thero are no missionaries or travellers in the district to report tho tragedies. One feature of tho traffic is the frequent suicide of despairing white agents.
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Press, Volume XLIX, Issue 14833, 26 November 1913, Page 9
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172PUTUMAYO OUTDONE. Press, Volume XLIX, Issue 14833, 26 November 1913, Page 9
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