Amazon Adventure

The world's greatest wild animal trainer, Clyde Beatty, with another exciting story from his brilliant career. This master of the big cats captures ferocious jungle beasts and trains them to perform under the big top in the circus, where there are always frills, action and danger.

Hundreds of dramatic behind-the-scenes adventures are all part of the Clyde Beatty story. Here is the story of Amazon Adventure. Africa has long been known as the Dark Continent, but I often wonder if it deserves that title more than South America, or at least the part of South America my wife Harry and I visited

a few years ago. It was midwinter when we arrived at the port of Bel-Emm at the mouth of the mighty Amazon River in northern Brazil. After passing through customs we headed from the docks straight toward the American continent.

This is a place in your... Well thanks driver, it will only be a few minutes. Maybe you better wait so you can take Yes, I do. How did you wish, Senor? Coming, Harry? Right behind you, dear.

Oh, there's a flag. You know, quite I always get a thrill out of seeing our stars and stripes when we're so far from home. Oh, so do I, honey. Comforting to know that whatever country we may be in, there's a little bit of the United States nearby.

Mm-hmm. Can't hurt my proud beauty? Thank you, kind, sir. Oh, hello. Come in. Thank you. Yeah, I'll do. We just wanted to check in before going to the interior. Baitie's my name, this is Mrs. Baitie.

Oh, I'm going to Craig, Vice Counsel here. Welcome to Baitlin. Thank you, Mr. Craig. And I understand you to say you're going to the interior? That's right, we're going to Minos. Minos? That's almost 900 miles up the Amazon.