NO GUNS THEY RAILROAD YA
July 3 2017
Jim has been missing for three days now. I begin to think I owe it to his family to abort the expedition. However I’m finding some exotic arachnids. One of them appears to be nearly a meter across. I have to take a photograph before I break camp.
July 4 2017
One of the arachnids came to my camp! It is a deep purple in color and has only six legs. It was pawing through my camp when I woke up, and climbed a tree when I left my tent. I was able to get some good photographs.
July 5 2017
I have had the chance to watch the arachnid hunt for squirrels and birds. I was wrong about the number of legs, it has two more legs much smaller than the six walking legs, which terminate in tripart claws. It uses them to tear at its prey. It is a good thing I waited a day to examine this beast a little more closely. Bungling the number of limbs would have made me a fool.
July 6 2017
My box trap failed to catch the arachnid. In fact the cagey bastard has stolen it from me, dragged it up a tree, and plays with it. I’ll have to try and grapple it down.
July 7 2017
The son of a bitch has made his own cage out of twigs and uses it to catch squirrels. I’m going to try talking to it, setting out rows of pebbles, see if it can count in a sequence.
July 8 2017
Spider bastard has my can opener and stole some of my spam. I’m tempted to clear out before food runs scarce, but even with video this ain’t gonna be believed. I need a physical specimen. Sorry spidey.
July 9 2017
Can he sense the difference between a dart gun and a camera? He runs when I point it at him. Still stealing my food.
July 10, 2017
Figured out what happened to Jim. The mother came for her brat today. Had to put six shotgun shells into her. No way to haul out a whole spider larger than a horse, but I can manage one leg. Junior keeps keening for his dead mama. Very annoying squeal. I’m still gonna stay around to get him too.
July 11, 2017
They colony spiders
August 22, 2017
The head guard has let me have my books back. They allow me a candle for an hour. I cracked the language barrier with Euclidean geometry, and once they got the lever and fulcrum they started feeding me. I get my own room separate of the other apes in here. I’m keeping up the language lessons as best I can.
September 2, 2017
Just allowed a final entry. Trial didn’t go well. Had to admit I shot the mother of the child I kidnapped. Tribal war chief really laid it on thick for the jury. Nothing about Jim allowed on record. Asked to leave a warning to future explorers which was granted. Gotta keep it short thinking NO GUNS THEY RAILROAD YA can be easily copied and posted as a sign.