Chapter 52

Benedicto and Filippe show Courage--Confronted with a Mountainous Country--Steep Ravines--No Food--Painful Marches--Starving--Ammunition rendered useless by Moisture--The "Pros" and "Cons" of Smoking--A Faint Hope--A Forged Tin which should have contained Anchovies--Curious Effects of Starvation upon the Brain--Where Money is of no avail--Why there was Nothing to eat in the Forest--The Sauba Ants--Sniffed by a Jaguar--Filippe tries to commit Suicide pp. 299-320