In Search of an Unknown Race — page 62: what you’re looking at

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54 VAN, silver drinking cup and a small pocket compass, were placed symmetrically at the several four corners of the structure. In the middle lay the leather cover and fly leaf of what had been a pocket notebook. On the latter was written as follows : ‘Journal of a trip up the Amazon and interior ex- ploration, by Edward Bampton and Carl Schmidt. Left Rio Janeiro Jan. 3, 1875.” It was all plain enough to Van. The two explorers had fallen victims to the barbarous tribe whose prisoner he himself was. Perhaps these terribly suggestive relics of humanity were intended as object lessons to teach him his own fate. That the articles above enumerated were evidently regarded with a sort of superstitious reverence, and their use not understood by the Mumurus, Van readily conjectured. They certainly knew nothing of firearms, or they would not have placed their prisoner where he could secure such a priceless treasure as the revolver, which, barring a little rust, was in perfect order. He lost no time in appropriating it, and having re- placed the empty shells with loaded ones, pocketed the pistol and the remaining cartridges with feelings of relief too great for utterance. The compass, cup and matchbox he also took, together with the leaf of the notebook telling its sad story. As Van was turning away, a sudden thought occurred to him. If, as he had conjectured, the Indians knew nothing Eomichbooksico