trail took us to the 

 city. The path was 

 still far from being 

 finished, though. 

 There were many 

 places which were al- 

 most verticaljin which 

 we had to cut steps. 

 Up these places we 

 now made zigzags, so 

 that there was com- 

 paratively little diffi- 

 culty in climbing. 



"On the first day I 

 had set fire to the 

 cane in order to clear 

 the trail. This fire 

 did not clear much, 

 however. On the 

 second day I was 

 about a quarter of a 

 mile behind the work- 

 men, or rather above 

 them, when suddenly 

 Tomas (the Peruvian 

 soldier mentioned 

 above), who was with 

 m.e, said : 'Look, they 

 have fired the cane.' 

 Sure enough, they had 

 started it, and in a 

 minute it had gained 

 headway and was 

 roaring up toward us, 

 the flames reaching 1 5 

 or 20 feet into the air. 



e;scape; i'rom fire; in 

 the; jungivi; 



"There was nothing 

 for us but to run, and 

 we did that, tearing 

 through the jungle 

 down hill in an effort 

 to get around the side 

 of the fire. Suddenly, 

 on one of my jumps, 

 I didn't stop when I 

 expected to, but kept 

 right on through the 

 air. The brush had 

 masked a nice little 

 S-foot jump-off, and 

 I got beautifully 

 bumped. In a minute 

 there came a thump, 

 and Tomas landed be- 



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