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The Monster
of the Madidi
A grainy Illustrated London News photograph
from 1929 purports to show a giant monkey known as the 'Mono
Rey', reputedly inhabiting the jungles of northern Bolivia. The
last westerner to attempt a sighting, the redoubtable Major Percy
Fawcett, had subsequently disappeared without trace.
Accompanied by an Englishman
whose hobby is fighting mock mediaeval battles and an Australian
who smoked the pages of his South American Handbook, Simon Chapman
took an all-too-collapsible canoe up Bolivia's Madidi river to
try and find that mythical monster.
In the classic English tradition that sets about turning a mad
idea into an utter absurdity, Charlie, the Australian, proved more
adept at catching improbably large fish than steering the canoe
in a straight line. Their guides soon demanded precious chocolate
pudding rations before any meaningful progress. Worst of all, each
rare encounter with a human being brought reports that there was
no monster after all...Back
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