CITY PERILS

Ellesmere Guardian, Volume LVI, Issue 89, 22 November 1935, Page 6

CITY PERILS

AMAZON JUNGLE SAFER

(From the Guardian's Special Correspondent—By Air Mail). LONDON, October 19.

Mr Geoffrey Vredenburg, aged 29, travelled about 2000 miles along the banks of the Amazon in search of insects and adventure. He has just returned, a disillusioned young man, and settled down in a cosy caravan on the edge of Court Woods, at Selsdon, Surrey.

Mr Vredenburg, asked to recount

the perils he encountered in the Amazonian jungle, laughed bitterly and said: "Perils, my foot! It is far more perilous finding the way to Croydon on a dark night through these woods than it is in the jungle. I used to lie awake in my caravarj^** thinking of the great adventures I would have in hacking my way through forests full of wild animals." I was there four months and can count the wild animals I saw on one fhand. I came across a twenty-five- ; foot boa constrictor, and whipped out I my knife ready to defend myself. That snake gazed at me from, a tree —and winked at me!"