Word: darien
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...second companion "under a small wooden cross" must have jumped overboard before reaching Panama in order to have his funeral in the woods of Darien...
...Darien, Conn...
Clipston S. Harding, of Portsmouth, N. H.; Alan S. Harrington, of Hingham, Mass.; Joseph S. Harvin, of Fort Worth, Texas; Richard W. Heurtley, of Darien, Conn.; Henry F. Howes, of New York, N. Y.; Winthrop S. Jameson, Jr., of Belmont, Mass.; Lawrence M. Levinson, of Chattanooga, Tenn.; Richard W. B. Lewis, of Philadelphia, Pa.; Irving M. London, of Malden, Mass.; John F. McCluro, of Harrisburg, Pa.; William B. Miller, of Concord, Mass.; Sumner A. Pendleton, of Somerville, Mass.; Sheldon P. Peterfreund, of Glen Lyon, Pa.; Charlton D. Pierce, of Tilton, N. H.; Fred Rogosin, of Dorchester, Mass.; Sidney Sulkin...
...never a Baedeker. With a better seat in a library than on a horse, he is a hard man to upset in his own style of country. The physical peregrinations described in Beyond The Mexique Bay took him through Central America and Mexico, but many a peak in Darien, or even the depression of a valley, set him musing on an inner landscape. When he wants to, he can be as descriptive as the next 20th Century citizen, as in this definitive portrait of the pitch lake of Trinidad: ". . . The real pitch lake is simply about 200 asphalt tennis courts...
...four subspecies of rattlesnake. Doctors told him that one more bite would probably be the last. Mused he: "I like to say that I am through handling snakes forever, but I know I'm not." Last week Snakeman March emerged unbitten from the jungles of Panama's Darien district proudly bearing to his new serpentarium in Old Panama City a live, nine-ft. specimen of the most dangerous snake in the American tropics-the bushmaster...