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Born in the Matto Grosso jungle, 32-year-old Author Spinelli, now a U. S. citizen, draws on his own boyhood for good jungle descriptions...
...weekly Spectator when he saw a notice in the Times's "agony column" about a forthcoming expedition to central Brazil for which he volunteered and was accepted. Avowed purpose of the expedition was to ascertain the mysterious fate of Colonel Fawcett, British explorer lost in the Matto Grosso with two other men in 1925. Leader of the party was one Major "George Lewy Pingle" (Fleming does not give his right name), U. S. resident of Sao Paulo, Brazil, and reputedly an experienced explorer. Fleming's early suspicions of Pingle were confirmed when, at the journey's halfway...
...Eccolo, e matto, poveretto," the poor fellow is gone mad, exclaimed the Abbot at the monastery at Samos, while Byron raged with fever, allowing no one in his cell, breaking up the last shred of furnishing, beating Bruno, his unfledged physician, over the head. Bruno tore his hair, gnashed his teeth, wept because he had no power to use his poor skill on his master; the monks trembled and prayed. News of action came. Byron recovered overnight, set forth with miraculous energy; "I believed myself on a fool's errand from the first," he wrote, but he endured everything...
Snug as bugs in the matted jungle of Brazil's Matto Grosso, a state twice as big as Texas with a population little more than that of Houston, lives an Indian tribe called the Yawalapiti. Last summer the Yawalapiti had a colossal surprise, concerning which Vincent M. Petrullo of the University of Pennsylvania Museum, anthropologist of last year's Matto Grosso Expedition (TIME, Dec. 21 et ante) last week issued a monograph...
...much of a menagerie would a menu keep alive and healthy during an ocean voyage from Buenos Aires to York? Captain Vladimir ("Vovo") Perfilieff, generalissimo of an animal-catching expedition to the Matto Grosso Jung Brazil (TIME, June 1 et seq.), found it sufficient for the following, which he landed safely in Manhattan last week