The Putumayo, The Devil's Paradise

IT is something of a terrible irony of fate that in a land whose people for unknown centuries, and up to only four hundred years ago, lived under social laws "so beneficent as had never been known under any ancient kings of Asia, Africa, or Europe, or under any Christian monarch"-laws recorded by a reliable historian and partly capable of verification by the traveller and student to-day-should, in the twentieth century, have been the scene of the ruination and wholesale torture and murder o...