Tales from way back when…
Jungle girl seeks a caiman

AN ENGLISH ‘jungle girl’, armed only with a sheath knife, is now braving the dangers and roaming the wilds of B.G’s jungle to capture vicious reptiles and animals. Pretty 18-year-old Anne Kindler, a daring adventuress from Wimbledon, England arrived here over three weeks ago.

After spending Christmas in Georgetown, she left on her jungle hunt to locate in particular a caiman, small snakes, and an ant-eater.

Dressed in denim jeans and khaki shirt, the former shorthand typist is reported to be in the Mazaruni area, where she is now trying to make a collection for the Paignton and Jersey zoos.

Miss Kindler was attached to the Chessington Zoo before she started out on her journey to B.G.

Anne is getting help from hunters and other people in the interior to capture the caiman and other animals.
(Guiana Graphic: January 17, 1960)

Perreira to try again –on foot
A 21-YEAR-old boy who failed in his bid to reach Lethem by motorcycle six months ago is ready to attempt the journey again on foot.

Lloyd Perreira leaves tomorrow, and is accompanied by his cousin, Phillip Da Cambra.

They expect to cover the 283-mile cattle trail in 14 days.

In his attempt last year, Perreira, then accompanied by another man, De Souza, was reported lost after his motorcycle got bogged down in swamplands.

A Police search party found them along the trail.

Despite the setback, Perreira still intended to make the trip, but abandoned the idea after his mother stepped in.

Now, he has got the ‘green-light’ to move again.

He told the Graphic: “The object, of course, is to prove that if I didn’t go by motorcycle the last time, or rather if so much fuss was not made, the trip would have been a cinch.
(Guiana Graphic: April 1, 1960)

I came back from the ‘dead’
A MAN sat in his hammock thinking about his ‘days ahead’, while a mile away, a grave was being dug for him.

Half an hour after he became aware of this strange happening Cyril, Goodharte had the shock of his life when two policemen walked into his house demanding his body.

This is the memorable experience told The Graphic’ yesterday by the man from Goed Fortuin, whose ‘presumed dead’ story was carried exclusively a few days ago.

“On Monday last, my reputed wife and I left for her relatives at Plantain Walk, about two miles away from our home at Goed Fortuin … She said that the outing may do me good, because I have been sick for a long time.”

The 52-year-old labourer of Versailles Estate continued: “About 8 o’clock the same night, while I was relaxing at the home in Plantain Walk, I heard a man come running up to the house shouting: ‘Goodharte! Goodharte!’

“He said he wanted to see me, because he heard that I was very ill.  He was not a friend of mine …and we all thought it strange that he would want to see me.

“The following day, around 11:30am, I was sitting in the hammock, dressed in my pyjama suit, when I heard a voice shouting: ‘I get me desire; I get me desire. All I want now is to get de body.’

“Then, to my horror, two policemen, followed by a large crowd, came up the stairs and said that they come for the body of Cyril Goodharte. I get up from the hammock and asked them: ‘Whose body?’ When they replied, ‘Cyril Goodharte,’ I told them that I was Cyril Goodheart. They were taken aback. The policemen then left to stop the man from the funeral parlour from bringing the coffin that had been prepared for me. Meanwhile, a man was busy digging a grave for me at the Best Cemetery; he was also stopped.”

As Mr. Goodharte was telling his story, his reputed wife interrupted him to remind him that the man who was sent around the district to announce his death and invite people to attend the ‘wake’  had to go back to the people and explain that Goodharte was not really dead, and there would be no ‘wake’.

“It is shocking to know that people want to bury me while I am still alive. In any case, when I am dead, I do not want to be buried in secret; my relatives must know. This business about digging a grave, making a coffin, and just collecting my body and dumping me away not for me… Thank God I am still alive,” Mr. Goodharte said.
(Guiana Graphic: April 10, 1960)

Another grave for Mr. Goodharte
CYRIL Goodharte, the man who ten days ago said that a grave was dug for him while he was alive, died yesterday at the Georgetown Hospital.

The 52-year-old man, of Goed Fortuin, died fifteen minutes after he was given a drink of water from his reputed wife.

His last wish to be buried in West Demerara will not be carried out, for his graying mother has requested that his funeral take place in Georgetown.

The 40-year-old reputed wife told me that she is the most surprised woman. Only, when he spoke to her on Tuesday, it appeared likely that he would have been home by weekend. But yesterday morning when she visited him, he was a changed man… refusing to speak to her.

Minutes later, she heard of his death outside the hospital compound.

She collapsed on hearing the news.
(Guiana Graphic: April 21, 1960)

Expedition to look for black jaguar
UNITED States adventurers are almost certain that the black jaguar inhabits the jungles of British Guiana.

Because of this, a big American expedition will be coming to this country next month.

Leader of the expedition will be Dr. Lawrence Tetzlaff, the famed big-game hunter and American television personality.

Dr. Tetzlaff and his wife, Jane, visited here last year and were very impressed with B.G’s jungles.

‘The Blade’, a daily newspaper in Toledo, Ohio, U.S.A, is sponsoring the expedition to get a collection of rare reptiles, fish and birds for the Toledo Zoo.

The expedition will also include Lou Klewer, outdoor editor of ‘The Blade’, and members of the exclusive Explorer’s Club of New York City, Phillip Skeldon, Director of the Toledo zoo, and Dan Danford, the institution’s curator of animals.

B.G’s back country has been chosen for the expedition because it is said to be the most promising area in the world.

The animals caught will enhance the Toledo zoo’s collection, already one of the most outstanding in the U.S.

The party will make films of their activities and of the country, including Kaieteur Falls, to be shown throughout U.S.
(Guiana Graphic: February 6, 1960)

Hunters fail to capture black jaguar
FOUR sun-tanned American hunters have returned to Georgetown after being defeated in their quest for the rare ‘black jaguar’.

But they brought back the skin of a black jaguar, which they bought from a native in the deep jungle.

And now, big-game hunter, Dr. Lawrence Tetzlaff and his aides, rugged Phillip Skeldon, Dan Danford and ‘Blade’ newspaperman, Lou Klewer are more convinced that this prized animal exists.

For, besides proof of the skin, they actually saw tracks.

Dr. Tetzlaff said yesterday that they had been defeated in capturing it because it is believed that it does not roam around during the dry season.

To this end, they had already made up their mind to return here next year.

Since the expedition came to B.G. less than a month ago, he said that they have captured nearly thirty-five different rare species of birds, small animals and large snakes.

Dr. Tetzlaff said that the ‘sleep gun’ was used most effectively for making captures for their ‘Flying Noah’s Ark’.

Their cargo plane arrives today, and the expedition leaves for the U.S. t
omorrow.
(Guiana Graphic:  April 13, 1960)
(Clifford Stanley can be reached to discuss and of the foregoing articles at cliffantony@gmail.com or by telephone: 657-2043)