In the velvet darkness the posse of 16 white men crouched noiselessly at the jungle's edge. Just beyond, in a clearing, glowed the campfires of their prey: a tiny band of Brazilian Indians whose men had clubbed to death, in a reprisal raid, a white rubber tapper who had killed one of their tribe. When the campfires ebbed and the Indians had settled into sleep, the posse struckwith shotguns, machetes and vicious dogs. No one was spared. In a few minutes, 22 men, 18 women and 12 children lay dead. The posse cut off...
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