Word: canoc
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...modern European history. After his junior year, a classmate urged him to join a snake-catching safari on the Amazon River. Glancing at the primitive spears in the corner of his room, he remarks, "After driving sixty miles up and over the Andes, we took a forty-foot mahogany canoc down the river, shooting at random crocodiles. . . I didn't bring any snakes back but I picked up a tiny marmoset monkey. On the train from New York, in the dining car, I had him inside my coat. And the waiter, who had just set a fruit salad...
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