Word: amazone
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...mule train, I again crossed the Andes, the journey across the mountains taking seven days. On the other side, I got a number of Indian carriers and then we walked through the jungle for a couple of hundred miles until we came to one of the tributaries of the Amazon. Down this river we went for about a thousand miles, paddling through jungle in dugout canoes until we reached the Amazon down which we continued finally arriving once more at Buenos Aires, where we took ships for home...
...bootieg and gunpowder that own these graces. Manifest is their transcendence over olden methods. The priest was but mutilated. The civilian was ended. Let this be a lesson to the amazon "Order of Our Lady of Tears" when next they dislike a prelate...
...travelers had crossed the Sierra Pacaraima from Brazil into Venezuela to investigate the aboriginal legend that the Orinoco and the Amazon have a common source. They came to the Rio Merarwi and here, stars ill-boding, three of their canoes capsized, dumping out five months' provender and sending the party speedily homewards. (Hence Stevens' monkey meat...
...long run, as in the case of the Brazilian coffee monopoly, the rubber syndicate will probably defeat itself by encouraging tremendous new production, especially in the Dutch East Indies and the Para and Upper Amazon portions of Brazil. But it takes several years to bring rubber trees to bearing age, and meanwhile the British rubber growers will "sit pretty...
...Harvard Wireless Club announces that it is now in communication with the scientific expedition of Dr. Alexander Hamilton Rice '01, now in the wilds of the Amazon jungle in South America. According to a message to the CRIMSON, the club states that it will be glad to forward any messages from members of the University to Dr. Rice or to any members of his party, among whom are several Harvard...