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...tangled jungles of the Peruvian (upper) Amazon emerged last week a botanical expedition of the Field Museum, Chicago. Some items of medical interest forwarded by Llewelyn Williams, leader of the party...
When he was 16, Alexander Siemel ran away from home in Riga, Latvia. When he was 21, he left Manhattan for Brazil. Thirteen years ago, aged 27, he went to live in the jungles at the headwaters of the Amazon to mine diamonds. That did not pay too well, so he took up tiger hunting...
...AMAZON-Elliot Paul-Liveright...
...their supplies were carried in sacks; cans weighed too much, took up too much room. Their collapsible canvas boats were always being punctured by rocks in the rapids of the Kuluseu, but came in handy when they reached the Xingu, tributary of the Amazon. Flies were their constant companions: borochudas, which leave a blood-blister; garapatas, which cling together in swarms; stingless bees, which crawled "up our nostrils, into our ears, down our necks"; fire ants, whose bites "feel exactly like flames rippling over one's body"; big black ants which hissed like snakes when you pinned them down...
...with sophisticated and sympathetic Novelist-Essayist Aldous Leonard Huxley, news came that another Lawrence venture had riled English moralists. In London since mid-June there has been a first exhibition of Mr. Lawrence's adventures into painting. Two titles were typical: A Boccaccio Story, A Flight with An Amazon. Thousands of Londoners have seen them. Critics have snorted: "Repellent and distorted nudes . . . compel most spectators to recoil in horror...