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...whom the Carib Indians although tortured would not tell the source of their gold ornaments, imagined a place of gold, El Dorado, at the headwaters of the Orinoco River. No known Spaniard nor other white, until last month, ever reached the Orinoco's source. Then Dr. Herbert Spencer Dickey of Tippecanoe City, Ohio* and Manhattan, his bright-eyed, hard-muscled little wife, and four men companions, after a three-month struggle up the hot, muggy Orinoco, reached the top of a "gigantic" peak of the Parima Mountains. From here they saw the second largest river in South America...
...Dickey, who before he married and became a professional explorer, practiced medicine for 25 years in northern and western South America, named the Parima peak from which he saw long-sought El Dorado, the George G. Heye Mountain. That was to honor the important backer of this, his fifth expedition up the Orinoco -George Gustav Heye, 56, retired Manhattan electrical engineer and banker who for 35 years has been assembling relics of North, Central & South American Indians and who, with Archer Milton Huntington,† in 1922 created the great Heye Foundation & Museum of the American Indian in Manhattan...
...Yale stroke in 1928 and 1930, in each of which years he led his eight to victory over the Crimson. The Harvard boating is as follows: Stroke, Watts; 7, Oliver Amos '27; 6, F. A. Clark '29; 5, W. T. Emmet '29; 4, James Lawrence '29; 3, L. W. Dickey '30; 2, Kenneth Walker '27; Bow, Frederie Winthrop...
...wildernesses. But not this year. They visit Mr. Fiala, gossip wistfully a while, then go mooning home. He has perforce reduced his advertising. The exploring business this season is mainly professional. Mr. Fiala's big customers are the Wilkins and Williams expeditions into the Arctic, the Dickey expedition through the Orinoco country. A goodly number of U. S. amateurs, notably Artist Rockwell Kent, are heading for convenient subArctic regions. For the effete, the Soviet Government has organized a tour this summer aboard the icebreaker Maligin from Archangel to Franz Josef Land and Nova Zembla. When the Maligin reaches...
Suddenly the earth under Managua rumbled and heaved. A 20-ft. stone wall swayed like an elephant's flank, crashed down on Commander Baske and Clerk Dickey, burying them completely. Lieut. Denham who was seven feet behind was felled but not killed by part of the roof. Meantime, screaming with terror, nearly 300 convicts plunged to their death from the yawning, tumbling cells...