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Some 20 years ago a young U. S. English instructor named Richard C. Gill decided to visit Ecuador. He liked the country so well that he bought 750 acres of jungle near the headwaters of the Amazon River. There Gill and his wife pioneered the first dude ranch in South America...
Detectifiction addicts know strange curare as the exotic drug which causes undiagnosable death. Richard Gill knew it as the dark brown, pitchlike poison brewed by the Amazon Indians, who use it to tip the darts of their blowguns. Some two or three minutes after a victim is hit by a curare dart, he dies...
...soon as Rancher Gill had been massaged, yanked and kneaded into some semblance of muscular control, had learned all over again how to wash his face, tie his tie, handle a knife & fork, he headed for his ranch in the Amazon jungle. He was in charge of an expedition, financed by Philanthropist Sayre Merrill, 1) to worm from the Indians the black magic of curare cooking, 2) to bring back to the U. S. enough curare for laboratory use, 3) to bring back any other useful drugs from the Indian pharmacopoeia. Rancher Gill succeeded in all three tasks. The best...
...been the case, a British Cabinet Minister declares that England's frontier is the Rhine, this is really the limit both as regards stupidity and unbearable arrogance. It could hardly be more stupid to declare that Germany's frontier is the Mississippi,* or the Amazon, or the Yangtze...
...realism and fantasy seldom mix even in the Amazon jungle. Result: the plight of the miniature actors, dodging for their lives behind a huge can of pork & beans, peering up at a towering rooster or laboriously sawing themselves slices of gargantuan boloney, is less frightening than funny...