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the Blanco and Beni rivers. In June a picket- 

 guard sent to the Department of Beni were cut 

 off by them. The soldiers, who had packed 

 their rifles in a cart drawn by Indians, were 

 suddenly attacked and killed, with the excep- 

 tion of a few who reached a small chapel. 

 Here they defeuded themselves for three days, 

 and finally, when their ammunition was ex- 

 hausted, endeavored to escape during the night, 

 but were overtaken and clubbed to death. On 

 receiving particulars of this disaster, the pre- 

 fect sent seven missionaries to the Indians. Of 

 these seven two joined the Indians, four were 

 allowed to return after they had sworn to as- 

 sist the insurrectionary cause, and the seventh 

 was barbarously murdered. The Government 

 later in the year sent a new prefect to Beni to 

 endeavor to suppress the Indians, who con- 

 tinued in open revolt. Three more tribes 

 joined the movement, and it was apprehended 

 that if the Government did not display greater 

 promptness and energy, all the settlements in 

 Beni would be destroyed. 



BRASSEY, Lady ANNIE, an English traveler and 

 author, born in London about 1840, died at sea, 

 Sept. 14, 1887. She was a daughter of John 

 Allnutt, a man well known as a steeplechase 

 rider, from whom she inherited a passion for 

 riding and out-door sports. In 1860 she mar- 



LADY ANNIE BRASSEY. 



ried Thomas Brassey, who was one of the two 

 sons of Thomas Brassey the railway-builder, 

 and inherited half of his immense fortune. Mr. 

 Brassey was a member of Parliament for Hast- 

 ings, was knighted in 1881, and in 1886 was 

 raised to the peerage as Baron Brassey. He is 

 a Liberal in politics. For several years he has 

 owned a whole fleet of yachts, which he is able 

 to navigate himself, and he and his wife were 

 fond of making long voyages. Her first printed 

 work was "The Flight of the Meteor," an ac- 

 count of two cruises in the Mediterranean and 

 travels in the East (for private distribution 



only). In 1872 she published "A Voyage in 

 the Eothen," which described their visit to the 

 United States and Canada. In 1876-'77 they 

 made a voyage round the world in their yacht 

 " Sunbeam," crossing the Atlantic from the 

 English Channel to the coast of Brazil, thence 

 around South America, passing through the 

 Straits of Magellan, across the Pacific to Japan, 

 China, and India, and home again by way of 

 the Suez Canal and the Mediterranean. Her 

 account of this voyage, published in London in 

 1878, had an immediate success, was repub- 

 lished in New York, and seemed to bring her 

 to the familiar acquaintance of large numbers 

 of American readers. It has appeared in sev- 

 eral editions, including one to be used as a 

 school reader and one priced at sixpence, 

 which had a very large circulation. In 1880 

 she published "Sunshine and Storm in the 

 East a cruise to Cyprus and Constantinople," 

 and in 1883 "In the Trades, the Tropics, and 

 the Roaring Forties." In 1885 Mr. Gladstone 

 accompanied the Brasseys in a trip on board 

 one of their yachts to the coast, of Norway. 

 The home of the Brasseys is Normanhurst 

 Castle, near Hastings, Sussex, and Lady Bras- 

 sey was prominent in many charitable under- 

 takings there and in London. A personal 

 friend writes: "Lady Brassey was a woman of 

 extreme energy ; there was nothing she dis- 

 liked more than to have no immediate object 

 of action before her. So long a? she was in 

 health she wished to be up and doing some- 

 thing tangible. She was an active member of 

 the St. John's Ambulance Association, and as- 

 sisted in forming sundry classes or centers 

 thereof. She passed the Soutb Kensington 

 School of Cookery (scullery department and 

 all), and took a first-class certificate therein ; 

 she was a Dame of the Order of St. John of 

 Jerusalem in England. Few ladies of the fash- 

 ionable world get through as much effort in a 

 week as Lady Brassey often incurred in a single 

 day. We have known her spend a day at Nor- 

 manhurst thus (as a sample) : Correct proof- 

 sheets for printer and interview head servants 

 as to orders for the day before breakfast ; hunt- 

 ing with the local harriers for three hours, 

 riding straight as a die over the stiff timber 

 fences of Pevensey Marshes ; home to a late 

 luncheon; then drive a waggonette to show 

 some visitors the beauties of the neighboring 

 Ashburnham Park ; after afternoon tea an over- 

 hauling of fancy costumes for an approaching 

 fancy-dress ball ; after dinner a rehearsal of 

 some fancy-dress quadrilles with the various 

 young ladies and gentlemen who were to form 

 her party to the said ball on the morrow. Or, 

 as an illustration of a day in the London sea- 

 son : .Down to Chatham (or some such port) in 

 the morning to launch a vessel ; to the East 

 End in the afternoon to distribute prizes at a 

 training-ship, and to make a speech to the 

 pupils ; and in the evening a reception at her 

 own house." Lord and Lady Brassey were on 

 board the " Sunbeam " with their son and their 



