Word: malays
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...plateau. Lieut.-Colonel Sewell had no doubt that the drowned mountains once topped large exposed land masses which might well be the hypothetical continent "Lemuria," proposed by Germany's late Naturalist Ernst Heinrich Haeckel to explain the fact that lemurs, lowest of primates, swarm in Madagascar and the Malay Islands, are scarce elsewhere. Last week as the Mabahiss prepared to wind up its cruise, the expedition's secretary in Cambridge received another report, accompanied by samples of water and ooze from depths down to five miles. Beneath a wide patch of the Indian Ocean, Leader Sewell had found...
Wild Cargo (RKO) makes Frank Buck's life work of collecting animals for zoos appear to be a sinecure. When Buck sits down to rest in a Malay jungle he knows at once what causes each and every noise. "The East Indian binturong," says he, ''is a strange creature, half-bear, half-cat." Presently the binturong is laughing in a cage. When Frank Buck pitches a camp, white monkeys swarm on the roof. When he looks at a tree, there is a leopard in it. When a friendly potentate gives him a pig for Thanksgiving dinner...
...snakes with a bolas (which he uses on the cassowary in Wild Cargo). Since then he has crossed the Pacific 40 times, made five trips around the world, knocked out an orangutan in a fist fight. At Singapore, he maintains a completely stocked base for his expeditions. Throughout the Malay Peninsula he has native scouts who report to him the unexpected appearance of any rare or curious creature from the deep jungle. In Manhattan, where he has a handsome apartment in the Park Central Hotel, he keeps no pets of any kind...
...stories composing this latest volume from the analytical pen of Somerset Maugham are laid largely in the Federated Malay States and the neigbouring lands. But, as one who knows Maugham's work might surmise, the exotic setting of the scenes has little to do with the essential qualities of what is being related; here, as before, the author concerns himself more with the inner than the outer shells of his characters: he churns about in the soul, and finds it much the same on the Malay Archipelago as in East Wapping. Maugham has made the feelings of his characters more...
Trypan-blue has been used to kill the spindly, boring animalcules (trypanosomes) which cause sleeping sickness. It is also useful to kill the microbes of malaria. In the Federated Malay States, at the Sungei Buloh leper settlement Dr. Gordon A. Ryrie discovered that the blue trypan dye attacked the fatty bacilli present in leprosy and tuberculosis (the forms of the diseases are related). Other investigators confirmed Dr. Ryrie's work, among them cautious Dr. Heiser...