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...German Air Force Reserve officer has established an airport, possibly complete with a radio station, on the northern plains of the Amazon Basin (roughly six flying hours from Panama). There are about 30 recognized landing strips in the same area...
They also have built up stocks of aviation gasoline and oil at hideouts up the Amazon River and at points on Brazil's eastern coast line...
Said Byron: "An amazon ... a fine animal ... a gentle tigress...
...have been living in the Amazon Valley for the past 40 years, and have known intimately quite a number of English and American people, all of them decent and very well-behaved, also esteemed by everybody...
...thousand miles up the steaming Amazon from the Atlantic Ocean, 15,000 feet over the crusty Andes from the Pacific, lies the only undrawn boundary remaining on the American continents. The 50,000 square miles of territory in dispute between Peru and Ecuador lie mostly between the Marañón and Napo Rivers, tributaries of the Amazon (plus a picayune area along the Pacific coast). They are made up of a little fertile highland, a little more barren mountainside and much more tangled jungle, from which come a bit of rubber and some desiccated human heads for the tourist...