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...steaming bamboo hut near Manila, a lean, bronzed young U. S. chemist sat with a small native child on his knees. The child lay rigid, its face, arms and legs swollen, the rest of its body wasted. The child whimpered at the burning pain in his heart and intestines. He was dying of beriberi, ancient Oriental disease. The chemist thrust a few drops of an extract from rice hulls between the child's lips. Almost instantly the boy revived, and young Chemist Robert Runnels Williams, India-born son of U. S. missionaries, knew that he had saved a life...
After a fruitless 24 hours, the party stumbled on Gueffroy's skis. By prodding with bamboo poles through the new surface snow, searchers were able to tell where his feet had broken through the crust of the old snow. So they followed his trail, every few feet digging down to the crust to confirm their soundings. All that day and half the next they followed his confused, straggling steps deep into Sand Canyon...
...Father Laplante's film, called Bemana after a village on Viti Levu, largest island of the Fijis, natives were shown weaving bamboo shoots into a 200-foot net. After purification, this seine was dragged through the waters of the Singatoka River by women and boys. When the net had been drawn in a small circle in shallow water, the tribal chief waded in, waving a bewitched fan. After him followed a few huge Fijians who grasped three-and four-foot sharks by the tail, picked them up thrashing, quietly kissed them-either on the belly or just in front...
...this time it was impossible to ferry across the angry waters the pipe and corrugated iron sheeting needed for the Congress City. The Congressman in charge of the work, Mr. Nanda Lai Bose, a dry goods merchant by profession, went upriver in search of a shallow ford, discovered a bamboo forest, and drastically decided to build most of the City of bamboo. Three thousand villagers were set to chopping the long reeds. Huge rafts of bamboo swept down the flood, were lassoed from the banks as they came opposite the site, and Congress City was soon rising in record time...
Passing under a triumphal arch of bamboo resembling Noah's Ark, he entered a bamboo palisade. There he spent the day squatting upon matting with acres of other squatting Congressmen. Most of the speakers could not be heard by more than a fraction of the listeners, but whenever the Congress has met this has always been true and Indians do not mind. To them a palaver of this kind is a great emotional experience and they pay little heed to the shrill, monotonous speeches. Then every nightfall President Bose climbed back into his chariot and was drawn home...