Word: constrictors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meantime, Newell and an Indian tried to capture a large Anaconda boa constrictor. It had been Siemel's idea that one of these monsters, which reach a length of 30 ft., could be taken alive by loop-ended poles in the hands of a half-dozen men. Newell and the Indian sought to make a capture alone, but their snake writhed and lashed so powerfully that, in order to protect their own lives, they had to kill...
...Pago Chico" is the tale of a fire in the pampas grass. "Rosaura" is a cruelly sensitive story of a young girl's hopeless love and suicide, so feverish that it quivers between bright beauty and absurdity. The last of the seven, "The Return of Anaconda," carries a boa constrictor down the Parana River in a flood, has the jungle talking, raises the gooseflesh. All the stories are delicately translated by Anita Brenner, gain spice in the weird black-and-whites of Mordecai Gorelik...
Hunter Siemel, the man who kills jaguars with a bayonet, has devised a new method for capturing the giant anaconda boa constrictor. These monsters live in swamp pools which the natives skim and will not talk about except to mutter, "sucuri," their name for the anaconda. In the cold, dry season, anacondas sometimes slip out of pools to bask in the sun. Hunter Siemel's plan is to get between his snake and the water, put it on the defensive. Other men will surround it on the land side. Each man will be equipped with a long pole with...
...nearly so full flavored. A dog nicely cooked is better than cat." Puleston saw some strange sights: a human sacrifice of over 100 victims, to provide a bath of blood for a native king; a crucifixion; a fight between two crocodiles, between a native and a boa constrictor. Twice he met Explorer Stanley, "discoverer" of Livingstone. Says Puleston: Stanley's real name was John Rowlands...