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...Indians Make It. The basic rules for preparing curare vary little over millions of square miles, reported French Ethnologist Jehan Vellard, who has watched the process in Brazil's Mato Grosso, and now works in Peru. The essential components are dissolved out of the roots or stalks with cold or tepid water, and the solution is concentrated by heating. The finished product is a gooey paste. Natives have no fear of inhaling its vapors or of putting their hands in it, and they judge its strength by the bitterness of a drop, which they nonchalantly taste...
Future TV journeys of Adventure: to Brazil's Mato Grosso, to the Hopi Indians...
...from your review of Lost Trails, Lost-Cities [TIME, May 25] that the famous Colonel P. H. Fawcett, in common with nearly all other explorers of Amazonas and Mato Grosso, is not above grossly exaggerating the size of the Brazilian anaconda. Stories of sucurīs 40 to 50 ft. long are common in Brazil, but they always turn out to be third hand, and neither the snake nor the actual person who saw it can be located! Some years ago, R. L. Ditmars, curator of reptiles at the Bronx Zoo and one of the world's foremost experts...
...green wave of Brazil's Mato Grosso Plateau closed for the last time over the head of Colonel Percy Harrison Fawcett, the famed British explorer. What happened to him then? One guess is as good as another, and the Sunday supplements have made them all. Was he killed by a wild animal? No evidence of that. Is he still held captive in the deep interior by Indians who believe him a god? So one old Indian woman declared a score of years ago. Or was he really murdered by the Kalapalos chieftain who confessed the crime (TIME, April...
...already created two new towns along its pioneer highway. Aragarças (pop. 2,000) has new houses for road workers, a school for 350 children, a 70-bed hospital, sawmill, machine shop and brick factory. Chavantina (pop. 300), a cluster of brick huts, lies even deeper in the Mato Grosso, on the banks of the Rio das Mortes (River of Deaths) and near the hunting grounds of the fierce Chavante Indians...