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...glittering patch of quartzite, high on Sheguindah Bay Hill, was just the thing to catch an archaeologist's eye. Knowing that Stone-Age Americans made primitive tools from the easily workable material, Thomas Lee, a dedicated digger from Ottawa's National Museum, scrambled up the rocky slope on Lake Huron's Canadian shore to have a look. Half an hour later, he was poking and prodding one of the richest diggings in North America. The forest floor was dotted with crude knives, scrapers, and quartz chips. "I felt drunk," he said. "It looked as though the Indians...
...Indians who settled at Sheguindah, says Digger Lee, probably stayed for some 2,000 years; then, about 5,000 years ago, they pushed southeastward across Ontario. Rain and snow kept topsoil from forming on the sloping camp site, and many discarded artifacts lay on the ground last summer just as they had for 50 centuries. Archaeologist Lee gathered up every trace of man-chipped stone he could find before he went quietly away. This summer he returned with a group of students to dig deeper...
...Braz plays back the record of his life, it becomes a melody of might-have-beens. Wellborn and well-to-do, he is fleeced at 17 by a well-built gold digger: "Marcella loved me for 15 months and eleven contos ($5,500); nothing less." Nonetheless, he graduates from college "with complete faith in dark eyes and written constitutions." He becomes engaged to Virgilia, a girl with a "mouth fresh as dawn and insatiable as death," but she jilts him for a politician. He survives the experience, and uses it to sharpen the Braz Cubas philosophy of life, also known...
Brewing Storm. Matthews is the son of a Kimberley diamond digger who named him for an Old Testament prophet. He was brought up in Christian mission schools, proved a brilliant student, and won a chance to study at Yale and the London School of Economics. In 1935 he settled down to his career as professor of native law and anthropology at the Negro college at Fort Hare, in the Cape Province. Full of his Christian-mission teachings, Matthews devoted himself to the gradual improvement of the lot of the black man. He spoke as a moderate. While others were making...
What was wrong with the Italians? "They wave their 'ands when they talk," groused one Englishman. "They wink at the women and shampoo their 'air." Worst of all, said a squat Yorkshire digger, "They 'aven't larnt to talk English proper." Back of this pettiness was an unreasoning fear of unemployment that discourages hard work in all of Britain's heavy industries. Haunted by depression memories of dole and idleness and "bread and drip" (a diet of bread spread with cooking grease), British coal miners expect to safeguard their now-well-paid jobs by keeping...