George K. Cherrie in Tropical America Physica] heroism for the public benefit is not confined to the battlefields of great wars. We have just learned of an extraordinary adventure of a scientist connected with the American Museum of Natural History, New York City, which deserves to be recorded with ome of the feats of the European George K, Cherrie has been conducting natural history explorations in tropical America since 1884. It was his wide experience, his success in handling problems of desirable relations with the natives, that led the authorities of the Natural History Museum to send him as the Museum's representative with Colonel Roosevelt on the famous trip down the River of Doubt in 1913. Cherrie was in command in 1921 of a Museum expedition collecting birds and mammals in southwestern Ecuador incor the Peruvian line. At seven o'clock on a September morning the accidental discharge of his shotgun, held in his left hand while he was retrieving a bird with his right, sent a charge of number eight shot through his right forearm, severing the ulna. Such ineffective first-aid treatment as could be given so Serious wound was at once applied, and as soon as animals could be secured Cherrie started for the port of Santa Rosa, distant 85 miles, where he aimed to catch the weekly steamer for Guayaquil. The pain occasioned by his wound was so excruciating that he was unable to ride on the level or down hill, and consequently walked all the way except up grade. The trip in-eluded the ascent and descent of a mountain 8.000 feet in height. He was able to get very little to eat, and was assured by the sympathetic natives he encountered that as he was mortally wounded, why eat at all! He finally reached Santa Rosa three hours after the boat had left, but his party started after it in a canoe and caught it farther down the river. Until he reached the steamer he was unable to sleep.
When he arrived at Guayaquil, four days after the accident, his arm was as large as his leg and so gangrenous that his life was des-pa of. But an operation was performed, and he improved enough so that he could come back to the United States. He is here now, and the physicians hold out hope that he will ultimately recover the use of the arm.—''The Outlook."
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