Uncle Dick and Lisa's Old Time Animal Tales

 

Soldiers, Lost In Jungle, Are Forced To That Fare.

United States Cavalrymen Subsist forNineteen Days Upon Flesh of Simians.

     Lost in the jungles of Mindanao, a troop of United States cavalry subsisted for nineteen days on the flesh of monkeys. The troopers were finally found by a scouting party sent in search of them and showed almost no ill effects. Sergt. John Cavin of the fourteeth cavalry, who arrived in San Francisco on the transport Sherman, said: “I was with Gen. Wood in Mindanao, fighting the Moros. I was on scouting duty, and when troop G was lost I was sent to find them. The men had two days’ rations with them when they went into the mountains and the supply of food soon ran out. The jungles abound with monkeys and the men shot and ate the animals rather than starve. They soon became accustomed to the food, and for nineteen days lived on monkey flesh alone.”