Rensselaer Union and Jasper Republican, Volume 8, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 May 1876 — An Indiana Boy's Romantic Adveatures in Brazil. [ARTICLE]

An Indiana Boy's Romantic Adveatures in Brazil.

An Indianapolis Clad.) special dispatch to toe Chicago 1 tmet tells the following romantic story: ' Sanford Morris, of this city, has just received from his son, Ernest Morris, the boy naturalist, now seeking fame and specimens in Brazil, a letter which tells the most romantic tale of his good fortune in quite a different field. Nearly two years ago young Morris, enthusiastic in natural history and only eighteen years ol age. left IndUospolls. struck the -Ohio, and reached New Orleans by a skiff voyage, and thence sailed for Para, in Brazil, intending to ascend the Amazon and collect specimens in the wild and unknown Squth American forests. Reports of his explorations have been received and published from time to time, as he reached points of communication along the route. He has ascended to the fountains of the Amazoh in Equador, hundreds of miles beyond the point reached by the naturalist Bates, sent out some years ago by the British Government, and furnished with unlimited means. Accounts of his wonderful adventures and successful career as a lover of science having reached the ears of the Smithsonian Institute and various scientific associations in New York and Philadelphia, he has been engaged to deliver lectures on his return, and an Eastern publishing house will launch his journal in book form. He‘Writes to bis family here relating the grandest of all adventures yet. The is as follows, and reads like a chapter from the “ Arabian Nights:” While encamped one evening on the banks ot the Amazon, near Santarjn, below Villa Franca, a furious storm arose. While preparing shelter with palms he saw a young Indian maiden dn the streum in a light canoe, and trying to make the shore before the storm came on. She was not equal to the task, and Morris, noticing she was being drawn slowly toward the powerful current, swam boldly out to her rescue, at great peril to himself, and pushed the canoe safely to the shore. Her gratitude took the shape of an invitation to conduct her home. The young hero accepted, and after a weary tramp, and some sharpshooting at wild beasts on the way, returned her home, only to find, to his surprise, that her father was a native chief of a powerful Brazilian tribe, and owned title deeds to the vast region lving between the river Amazon and the Siena Acary range of mountains, and that the girl was his only child. The old chief overwhelmed him with kindness and gifts, has taken him into the family* and now offers him the hand.of Miss Princess, who is extremely beautiful and wears a diamondstudded girdle that would ransom a king. He promises Morris countless treasures from his diamond-beds and gold-fields, and the help of bis whole tribe in collecting specimens; but his pride is pitched in a royal key, and before marriage can take placAe insists that the son of science shall take the Indian beauty to his American home as a sister and obtain the consent of his parents to the match. The father runs a ten-by-twelve lamp store here, and though he cautioned Ernest not to get mixed up with any of those ’ girls down there, he shows a disposition .0 favor this diamond future for his son.