[LEPS-L:7973] Re: Something else occured to me.

jandwdic at postoffice.swbell.net jandwdic at postoffice.swbell.net
Wed Nov 22 21:35:20 EST 2000


   Thank you for your response. I am continually amazed at the promptness and
erudition of the responces on this newsgroup. It is a pleasant change from what
I am used to.
   If you are inclined to do so, I would love to see more information on this
subject.




"Chris J. Durden" wrote:

> At 11:30  22/11/00 -0500, you wrote:
> >Listers,
> >
> > I think it was a tributary of
> >> the Amazon, but I can't remember for sure.
> >>    Anyway, two of his men got stung by something fierce. They were
> >>    virtually
> >> incapacitated by it. If I remember right, they never figured out what
> >> had stung them. That's exactly what happens with most asp stings
> >> because it takes a few moments for it to start stinging. Chances are
> >> if you are walking you will never see what stung  you.
> >
> ------  The river was later named "Roosevelt". It is a tributary of the
> Aripuana, a tributary of the Madeira, a tributary of the Amazonas. It rises
> in Rondonia, flows through western Mato Grosso, into the state of Amazonas.
>   In 1989 I was stung while in the forest along the Cachoeira, about 150
> miles west of the Roosevelt. It was quite painful initially and lingered
> for days. The surrounding 4 square inches of skin still is numb. It was a
> large black ant. If anyone is interested I can scan the transparency and
> attach it to a private e-mail. Others on the trip clamed their encounters
> were more painful and debilitating. I suspect this may be the stinger of
> the Roosevelt trip.
> ........Chris Durden
>
>
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