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They have soared in throbbing airplanes more than 1,500 miles over Congo swamps, diamond mines, cannibals, palm oil factories, pigmies, ivory hunters, and savage, slimy, man-eating crocodiles. Also Their Majesties sailed a thousand miles down the mighty River Congo (larger than any other except the Amazon). By way of climax, they skirted the edge of the Great Pigmy Forest, one of the gruesome wonders of the world. Appalling, it is a place from which dense, choking creepers and great trees shut out the sun. In the gloom spiteful brown pigmies plant poisoned stakes and shoot poisoned arrows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BELGIUM: Touches! | 9/10/1928 | See Source »

...Like some prodigious bended bow the River Congo curves away from the Moon Mountains and flows 3,000 miles across Africa to the Atlantic. Of all rivers whatsoever, only the Amazon, in Brazil, is greater. Every time a second ticks, prodigal Mother Congo empties into the ocean more than a million cubic feet of water. Stopping last week beside a river of such magnitude, Their Belgian Majesties must have given many a thought to the cold, relentless businessman who first exploited good Mother Congo and her Blackamoors as his hirelings, slaves and strumpets. The strumpeteer was King Leopold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BELGIUM: Majesties to Congo | 8/6/1928 | See Source »

...Brazil last week newspapers, politicians, and businessmen quarreled bitterly over the 50-year concession recently granted Henry Ford to cultivate rubber trees in the Amazon basin. By his contract he is permitted to engage in domestic and foreign trade without duty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Guayule Rubber | 5/14/1928 | See Source »

...accused, of all people in the world, of being perverted. The indignant apostle, helpless on the far side of an ocean, can only pray while the enemy makes a determined attack on his very stronghold, and of what use are new converts when the old are falling before the Amazon-like assault? It seems as if the master-believer would be forced to return to defend his hard-won following. Once in Zion City, the clash of the two forces will eclipse any struggle of such intensity as Straton versus Darwin. The McPherson-Voliva fray promises well...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE BATTLE OF SOUL SAVING | 5/14/1928 | See Source »

...Tate (younger brother of G. H. H.)-leveled their binoculars across lower flat-topped mountains towards Brazil, British Guiana and Venezuela. They saw, through the frequent rain & mist, water dropping in a vertical fall 2,000 feet. They saw water flowing south down rills, brooks, creeks, rivers to the Amazon and thence eastward to the Atlantic; they saw dripping from jungle trees moisture that was to flow north through the muddy Orinoco and the cascading Essequibo rivers into the Caribbean...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Mt. Roraima | 3/12/1928 | See Source »

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