Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 April 1893 — Frightened. [ARTICLE]

Frightened.

In the jungles along tne banks of the Magdalena River, in the republic of Colombia, a traveler needs to be on the alert for poisonous serpents. A Frenoh gentleman who went botanizing in one of these jungles relates that he looked and listened and trod cautiously, bearing in mind the solemn warning given by the natives when he left the boat: “Look ouc for serpents as you value your life.” Ho eyed the thick tropical growth suspiciously, and movod forward only when he was satisfied that no venomous creature was lying in wait for him. Suddenly he heard a sound behind him—a hoarse, strange, ominous sound —and at the same time he saw the tall grass move. Cold with horror, he sprang away and struck a fearful blow at the moving place in the grass. Then he picked up the body of his lifeless enemy. It was a bullfrog as largo as a man’s head.