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...Communists." Ever since Com- munism became the bugaboo of Occidentals, Netherlandic despatches from Java, Sumatra and Borneo have described all insurgent natives as "Communists." The insurgents' chief avowed grievance is, however, that as Mohammedans they refuse to be governed by Christians. They are "Nationalists" and "anti-Christians" rather than "Communists" in the political sense...
...arise to jest with his life; but if one stands in its shadow by the light of the full moon, he will hear the secrets of the future. All of which ties a string around six short stories, wherein English folk drink gin pahits and have emotional disturbances in Borneo and the Malay Peninsula...
...Osborn and Explorer Roy Chapman Andrews at the American Museum of Natural History (Manhattan), and running a terrific, far-flung menu of elephant, loggerhead turtle, capybara (large South American rodent), howling-monkey, armadillo, iguana (lizard), Orinoco crocodile, diamond-back rattlesnake, stewed octopus, argus pheasant and muntjac ("barking-deer") in Borneo, sambar and gaur (deer) and manis (scaly anteater) in India...
Seventeen fur-bundled men and a fox terrier had passed in an airship completely up and over the Earth's icy pate, parting that wilderness as a comb might part the unexplored thatch of a wild man from Borneo. From Spitzbergen in Barent's Sea via the North Pole and the Pole of Inaccessibility, to Point Barrow, Alaska, they had peered out of their gondola for new lands, and in a strip of white waste 2,000 miles long by 10 to 100 wide, had spied none. They had seen seals, roaming polar bears, their own flags (Italian...
...Peabody Museum's famous Borneo baskets which have kept scientists mystified for over a month now, gave their followers a new start when it was found early yesterday morning that their motion had stopped. The twin baskets have maintained a slow twirling motion, except for a brief interruption two weeks ago, since they were first hung up last October. Numerous attempts had been made to explain their motion, which seemed perpetual, visitors flocked daily to the Museum to see the University's modern wonder. Then yesterday when people came in to watch them at their expected rounds were astounded...