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Morris has also arranged with other merchants-notably the Providence firm of Brown, Hopkins, Jenckes & Bowen-to seek out arms in the West Indies and Europe for 2½ percent commission. John Brown arranged to buy a cargo of gunpowder in Surinam last November and charged a price of 6 shillings a pound, which General Washington called "most exorbitant" (in December Brown made a profit of ?20,000 for such work). But the price is still rising. On Brown, Hopkins' latest shipment from the West Indies a month ago, the firm had to pay 14 shillings a pound...
...against scurvy, which sometimes kills as many as half the crewmen on long voyages. He also plans to distribute English animals among Pacific islands to see how they will fare in different climates (hence his arkful of livestock). As for Omai, he too has loaded the Resolution with unusual cargo to carry back from England to Tahiti: a portable organ, a suit of armor-and something that his people consider sacred, a large bundle of red feathers...
...Africa's white minority regimes, friendly talks with black moderates and a long tēte-å-tēte with Senegal's Poet-President Leopold Sen-ghor-not to mention the prescribed attack of gastroenteritis, glimpses of giant cape buffalo bellowing in the moonlight and a cargo hold full of souvenirs in the big U.S. Air Force 707. Then Henry Kissinger, increasingly caught in the political crossfiring back home, climaxed his two-week African tour with a series of sweeping proposals to help bridge the gap between the world's rich and poor...
...better book-more cleverly plotted, less awkward when it ventures on dry land. David and Gail Sanders spend their honeymoon diving for curiosities off the coast of Bermuda and scuba right into trouble. They uncover a vast cache of morphine and opium-medical supplies lost when an Army cargo vessel went down in 1943. A black mobster on the island gets wind of their find and threatens the couple with death-and worse -unless they help him get nefarious hands on the dope. The Sanderses enlist the aid of Treece, a huge Mahican...
While the ships wait at sea, they in effect serve as floating warehouses. That cost Iran a cool $1 billion in port surcharges last year. Perishable goods are lost. One freighter unloaded its cargo of rice, only to find that it had cooked into a giant pilaf in the steamy holds...