The Putumayo : the devil's paradise, travels in the Peruvian Amazon Region and an account of the atrocities committed upon the Indians therein . ?•?•mf^ H OH B < D X Q<. THE DEVILS PARADISE 197 perpetual and devilish carnival of crime ; in short,words are unable to convey any idea of thisgruesome field of blood and crime and bleachedskeletons, rotting under the falling leaves of theforest trees. It is a living hell. No wonderthat the vegetation is so luxuriant here, for thesoil has been deluged with the blood of so manyinnocent victims of the bestial greed and rapacityof these vile monst
The Putumayo : the devil's paradise, travels in the Peruvian Amazon Region and an account of the atrocities committed upon the Indians therein . ?•?•mf^ H OH B < D X Q<. THE DEVILS PARADISE 197 perpetual and devilish carnival of crime ; in short,words are unable to convey any idea of thisgruesome field of blood and crime and bleachedskeletons, rotting under the falling leaves of theforest trees. It is a living hell. No wonderthat the vegetation is so luxuriant here, for thesoil has been deluged with the blood of so manyinnocent victims of the bestial greed and rapacityof these vile monsters that it should be the richeston earth ! Tribe after tribe of the peaceful and hospitableIndians of these forests has disappeared before theonslaughts of Peruvian civilisation J Colombianafter Colombian has been foully murdered bythese miserable criminals, until at last they wereexterminated and their establishments, so longcoveted by the syndicate of crime, passed into itsunclean hands. As we shall see in the subsequent pages of thiscatalogue of horrors, the Peruvian authorities of theDepartment of Loreto, thanks to an unparalleledsystem of wholesale bribery—for
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