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...tiny Easter Island, isolated eastern outpost of the Polynesians, a French navy gunboat deposited a hopeful group of investigators headed by Professor Alfred Metraux of Switzerland. Ever since it was first inspected by Europeans on Easter Day, 1722, the island has baffled scientists because of its wooden tablets engraved with pictographs which have not been deciphered, its hundreds of huge busts carved from volcanic ash. Expecting little help from the 250 inhabitants (reduced from 5,000 or 6,000 by emigration and polyandry), the Metraux party will make one more attempt to decode the pictographs, discover who made the statues...
Story of the Congo, Black God is no travelog but an interpretation of the spiritual conflicts that follow the encroachment of white culture on black folk. Here "Civilization" and "Paganism" meet at the ford of a small tributary of the Congo River where an "outpost of progress" is in the making. Not a novel for best-seller lists, Black God should be enjoyed by discriminating readers for its humor, its delicate prose...
...Traitors must be put up against the wall and shot!" roared Leader Forster. "Here in this German outpost we shall forever uphold the Hitler spirit. We believe in Germany! We believe in Hitler...
...Sometimes Dr. Roy Waldo Miner, the Museum's Curator of Living Invertebrates, joins him, once took an under water cinema of him at work (see cut). There was no special realism about the Olsen submarinescapes last week to indicate they were actually done under water. Coral Outpost was a pastel blue-green, showed a film of sunlight filtering down to brownish mushroom coral, three pink, blue and yellow Yellow-Tail fish. Sunlit Coral Alle was a gentle blue and yellow composition of coral polyps and purplish-brown sea fans. Aside from their paleontological significance the pictures suggested pleasant decorations...
...tipsy, rapes her and then allows her to shuffle off across the snow where his assistant shoots her under the pardonable delusion that she is a seal. For harpooning the fur-trader Mala becomes fair prey for two members of the Canadian Mounted Police. They inveigle him to their outpost by treacherous subterfuges. Mala breaks out of their handcuffs, starts home to the two new wives a friend has lent him, eating the members of his dog team as he goes. The police finally catch up with him but are by this time so impressed by Mala's. fortitude...