A CASE OF TELEPATHY 
erate enough to lift my baggage upon stones and then 
cover it up with palm leaves, so that it should be pre¬ 
served as much as possible from moisture and ants. 
During the month they had been back on the Tapajoz 
the man X had once taken a journey alone to the spot 
where the baggage and Antonio had been left, hoping to 
find his companion dead and so rob him of the money 
which he knew he had in his possession — the pay he had 
received from me. Here is another charming incident. 
Yearly dead with fatigue, I lay helpless in a ham¬ 
mock which the seringueiro had hung for me. He and 
his wife had gone out to look after their new plantation, 
and only my men remained loafing about. 
The river was some sixty metres from the hut, and 
one had to go down a steep bank to reach the water. My 
throat was parched from the high fever, so I called An¬ 
tonio, who was near me, to give me a glass of water. 
Antonio pever budged, but called to white Filippe, some 
way off, to bring the water. Filippe called to the man 
X, repeating my order to him. The man X continued 
fishing without taking the slightest notice. 
So that, exhausted as I was, I had to struggle down 
to the river myself, as those men, for whom I had almost 
died, reciprocated my sacrifice in so graceful a fashion. 
I think that I might as well mention here a curious 
case of telepathy which occurred during those terrible days 
of starvation. 
Naturally, when one has before one the prospect of 
leaving this world at any moment, and one is working 
under a severe mental strain, one generally thinks deeply 
of one’s beloved parents and relatives. Thus my father, 
mother, and sister were before me all the time in my im¬ 
agination. Sometimes, when I was half-dazed, I could 
see them so vividly that I could almost believe they were 
so close that I could touch them. I never thought that 
I should see them again, in reality, although I never 
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