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Word: downstream (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...swarmed to their camp, demanding presents. It began to look as if the Dyott expedition too would some day need a search party. Then Dyott, after telling the Indians they would give presents next day, then start upstream, escaped with his party in the middle of the night, paddled downstream for 14 hours, got away. Says Explorer Dyott: "That Colonel Fawcett and his companions perished at the hands of hostile...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Road to Nowhere | 2/10/1930 | See Source »

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