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by Eden Phillpotts

CHAPTER III

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"I paid Mr. Boss very well." con- tinued the old man. "and we never qusrrelled: but presently he Dcsred to lose interest in the birds and I felt they had ceased

first act of Benny's story. so far as I know it, but I only saw the man again once. Physically. by the way. he was undersized. but finely put together - immensely strong for a little 'un and as tough as teak. A broad. solid fellow with a big nose and yellowish. pale eyes - rather like your blue, psrrotls. No mind ever moved quicker. and he knew sometimes -- in a mysterious way -- what you were going to tell him before you opened your mouth." Mr. Fernandez laughed at his

ap- thoughts.

"Well, s year or two passed." he

to be iproceeded, "and I heard nothing of

his first thought. a He never let rneliienny. Then he called upon me at

into his secrets, however. was not concerned to learn them. He lived at Puno then. and was

and I!Llma and invited me

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to buy - notabird. but a jewel. I have

small interest in jewels and know

married with several children. I rr- I! nothing about them. but he show-

member that towards the end of; that stone of great lustre set in gold. It to was obviously ancient. but as to its

our collaboration. he told me his eldest daughter was going

ed me a remarkable, blood-red

marry a man called Pnrdo. and Ilquallty and market value I could

gave him I wedding present her.

"That may be regarded as tho: i

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form no opinion. I supposed the stone to be a carbuncle. for it look- ed to be much larger than any

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ruby I had ever seen: but Benny swore that it was a true ruby and worth five thousand pounds at the least. He maintained an air of great mystery and declined to give me any particulars, I advised him to take the jewel to an expert. but this he declined to do. i "It struck me, knowing my Ben- ny. that the red stone was prob- ably stolen from some trusting na- tive. and when he finally offered to let me have it for five hundred pounds instead of the sum he had claimed it to be worth. I felt more than ever suspicious. I had no mind to play fence for Mr. Boss and per- haps lend myself in possession of somebody else's property. so I told him there was nothing doing under such vague circumstances. "He left me alter our conversa- tion'. and said that he was going to stop with friends at Lima for a few days and then return to his home beside Lake Titicaca. I never saw him again. but after a couple of years were passed. heard a further .instalment of his story. Benny

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now achieved notoriety, and was wanted by the authorities. Doubt- less anticipating this demand, however. he evaded the challenge by making himself scarce. For a considerable while no news of his activities .was forthcoming. neither the members of his family nor anybody else could guess where he might be.

"Meantime. his story and the charges against him saw the light. Two brothers -- Emilio and Juan Garcia - had entered a secret partnership with Benny. It ap- peared that they found the money for the enterprise. while Mr. Boss supplied the brains and needfui exertion. The gamble had been un- dertaken at Benny's inspiration. and he had fired the Garcia broth- ers with his own enthusiasm. As I have told you. it. is historically cer- ;tain that on the approach of the Spaniards. and before the capital city of the Incas fell to them, im- mense quantities of their treasures Iwere removed from Cuzco, con-

veyed south. and buried in the waters of Lake Titicaca.

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"Now these waters were in some places nearly three hundred yards deep. and to probe their fastnesses had demanded machinery and man power which would need more icapitsl than was forthcoming. But

lnenny had his own theories on .the subject. and they appeared lqulte sound.

"He told the Garcias that it was .unlikely the ancient people would .have cast away their wealth - their ins ms of office. crown jewels. golden statues. and all the rest of it - beyond the reach of lrecovery. Hope that their invaders might yet be conquered and driven out of Peru still remained. ”This argued comparatively shallow water. and for Benny the problem had been to judge where most probably among the wide margins and estuaries of the lake their hiding-places were to be dis- covered. Only a man of extraor- dinary courage and sanguine na- ture would have thought twice :- lbout any task so apparently hope- llcss. but the fact remains that Benny aided perhaps by his read- :ing of old authors. or simply serv- ed by good luck. arrived at some conclusions which justified further exploration. He might have laid .the facts before business people and made arrangements of a proper !character. but he did not. and I .am afraid the reasons for his line joi action will presently appear. A lstraightforward. commercial deal offered no charms for the explorer. and knowing the Garcias reason- ably well. he took his story to them. though not before he could show them some material to justify it. ywhen Br-nny vanished. the broth- rrs told their tale. and it was as follows:- To be continued

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'The Ladner Delta. Western and Lulu Islands at the mouth of the Fraser River in British Columbia are ideally situated for the dust- ing and spraying of farm crops. The land is almost 1 dead level, and the three areas are surround- ed by deep drainage ditches inside of high dykes, that prevent the Fraser River and the Strait df Georgia. from flooding the great Delta area. that in ages past was

laid down from the sediment carried by the great Fraser River System.

Luge areas of the farm lands are under contract to industrial companies to grow pens for can- ing and sugar beets for seed purposes. British Columbia. is wonderfully free from some of the posts, insects and diseases that pester eastern farmers. such as the Colorado potato beetle. the pea weevil and the Atlantic pea moth are. They do. however, have aphids and some insects and diseases that injure their two main cash crops in the Delta.

The day before we left Lewis Road, near Lsdner. the adjacent farm had ten acres of sugar- beets dusted in less than an hour. The company who had supplied the sugar-beet seed the previous season, and who would harvest. thrash and clean the seed, sup- plied the dust and engaged the airplane to dust the area.

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The owner. watching the opera- tion. said that the day was calm and the airplane flew very little higher than six feet above the sugar-beet plants. except where it came in line for his large barn and s neighbourls house. Titan it shot up, almost straight into the air, turned and dropped down a- gain as it came back over the barn. By flying so low the dust was blown right into the seed clusters. but the width treated on each strip was very little more than the width of the duster opcnlngs across under the lower wing of theybiplane. The adjoining farms were also having their su- gar-beet seed areas dusted. and when needed. their areas of peas dusted or sprayed as required. The whole area. of the delta is remarkably free from heavy winds. It very seldom has any frost and never has had any frost injury to sugar-beet stecklings. which are left in the field over winter. It ias not nearly so much cloudy. weather or for; as occurs in Van- couver and other areas nearer the mountains. and seems in be ideal for the cash crops mentioned. The field on the adjoining farm had an outstanding crop of peas that were ready to be taken to the pea-vin- ery, and word had been receiv- ed by the owner that the equip-

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We frequently saw small planes land and take off from nearby farm fields. and did not hear of any forced landings in the three months we were in the neighbor- hood.

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It may be of interest to many to learn of the” biggest. airplane spraying job yet undertaken. it was started last year in Resti- gouche County in New Bruns- wick from a base and an airfield known as Budworm city. It was called "Operation Budworm rm". when 100.000 sures of forest in New Brunswick were successfully sprayed and the damage by the spruce budworm was checked in that area, .'

This year "Operation Budworm 1953". extended over the counties of Restlgouche. Victoria. North- umberlsnd and Gloucuter. Five sirstrlps were constructed and used. one each at Char-lo. Koda- wick River and Boston Brook in Restigouohe County, Rose Hill in Glouceste and Nictau in Victoria County, in addition to the one constructed last year at Buwworm City. Spraying was carried out by '1'! aircraft. They began their work on May 27th. and completed the spraying of l.o00,000 gallons of formulated DDT solution over 1,500,000 acres of New Brunswick forests by July lat. 1958.

The insecticide was secured and stored in (5 gallon barrels near the airports. The insecticide tanks were placed in the front seat of the single-motored biplanes. which were operated under a general spraying contract held by Wheeler Airlines, a Canadian bush flying organization of st. Jovite, Quebec. ' O

The area sprayed was divided into 350 blocks, and these were as- signed to individual pilots who worked in pairs in s tandem ar- rangement developed from their experience of the previous year! one plane trailed the other by 500 feet and onja course about. 200 feet to one side. The '1'! planes laid a double swath, and sprayed in- secticide over 2300 miles of forest from a height of approximately ioo feet above the tree tops.

The organization that carried out this gigantic operation was known as Forest 5-? tection Limit- ed. Mr. B. W. Flleger was General Manager. It was financed by Inter- national Paper Co.. Fraser Com- panies Ltd.. Bathurst Power and Paper Co.. and Irving Pulp and Paper, the New Brunswick Govem- mcnt and the Federal Govern- ment assisting.

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The Dominion Entomological Laboratory at Fredericton, N. 3.. co-operated. and gave the go- ahesd signal when the budwonn larvae were most susceptible to the poison. Entomologistr were sta- tioned st Nictau. near Plaster Rock in Victoria County through- out the season. sampling results and carrying out research work on the project. Results in 1052 in- dicated that the budwonn kill was over 99 per cent in the 200,000 acre area.

The manager said that their aim was to keep the trees alive: "By spraying we hope to keep the bud-

by weakening or killing-trees in ltrge areas where the pest has been active for the last two or three years."

only Qwo aircraft had to make forcsd landing during the sun- paign. One pilot lost his way in the dark and landed in a field at Foobinsonville. Another aircraft after landing struck a fence and the plane flipped over. Both pilots escaped injury.

It is hoped that the check given the spruce budworm by prose sprayings may enable the trees to live until the natural enemies of this insect gain control and stop the epidemic. that now threatens the spruce and fir of Eastern Can- sda.

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