LADY RICHMOND BROWN

Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 January 1941, Page 8

LADY RICHMOND BROWN

A LIFE OF ADVENTURE. Ono day Lady Richmond Brown ; grew tired of her London Hat. She had ■ been ill and was hoping to find more 1 sunshine. She did not look like an i adventurer, but an adventurer she was. Rather diminutive, attractive, cjuiet ■ in her ways, she appeared quite cap- ! able of giving a pleasant tea-party, but; hardly cut out. for facing savages in the wilds of Central America. To Cen-! tral America she went, however, for no other reason than that she wanted to go. She went with Mr Mitchel! Hedges in 1921, and sailing in a small boat! among the islands south of Panama they came to one where the people suf- i fered terribly from all manner of diseases. Here they healed ns many as they could, and later went off in . search of the Chucunaque tribe, a; primitive people who till then had i never set eyes on a white man or, woman. Adventures enough had these two j intrepid explorers while staying with; the folk who lived in a steaming hot ; region where jaguars abounded and' snakes were everywhere. Taken prisoner by the tribe. Lady Brown found herself near her end. as she ; thought, but Mr Mitchell Hedges per-i formed a miracle which terrified the natives —causing fire to spring up out of the ground and surround her. The , poor things were frightened out of their wits, and this trick led eventually ' to the best of understandings between { the explorers and the natives, so much ; so that when Lady Broxyn left the | Chucanaque tribe they wept pitifully, i