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...were grueling portages around roaring rapids. Fever and bloodsucking insects sapped their strength. Once, when a whirlpool caught a canoe, a porter was drowned and Kermit nearly perished. They eked out their provisions by eating monkeys, Brazil nuts, honey, birds, turtles, fish, palm tops. Leader Roosevelt slept in a cot, which toward the end sagged badly; the others slept in hammocks. One day, to Roosevelt's surprise. Rondon revived flagging spirits by erecting a sign naming the river "Rio Roosevelt" by authority of the Brazilian Government. The party cheered bravely and went on. When they finally sighted the first...
...southern Adirondack is one of the most famous geological study grounds in the country. Here the summer student may study easily early Paleozoic sediments overlapping the Precambrian complex as he "roughs it" according to the best geological tradition, living in a tent and sleeping in a folding cot...
...guards, managed to walk from the Flemington courtroom after the death sentence had been passed on him last week. But as he was being led into his cell his knees gave way. The steelyeyed, German ex-convict crumpled, fell on his face. The guards dragged him to his cot. As he lay there, he broke down for the first time since his indictment last October for willfully killing the Lindbergh baby. "Oh, my God," he sobbed, "I feel awful...
Visiting an R. O. T. C. camp at Baltimore's Fort Meade, Assistant Secretary of War Harry Hines Woodring slept in a squad tent on an army cot canopied with mosquito netting. Said he: "I like to sleep out in the open again. When I was Governor of Kansas I'd always sleep in a tent while visiting the National Guard regiments...
...received more gifts-images of the Virgin, jigsaw puzzles. A former woman student, now a teacher, gave him (at his request) a manicure, and one patriotic young admirer took an oath not to shave until Puerto Rico was independent. As the professor grew weaker, he was moved to a cot in the reading room of the City Hall, facing the square. Too weak to speak, he read by the hour in Dante's Inferno. As the clock struck six one morning, the hour that ended his fast, Pereda sat up, crossed himself, bowed his head in silent prayer, then...