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Even with Rondon's help, the expedition had already lost one man, and the others were at constant risk. Kermit's paddler had drowned in one of the many deadly rapids that studded the river. Kermit, 24, had nearly died in the same accident, and Roosevelt lived in constant fear that he would lose not his own life on this expedition but his son's. Time and again, the men also lost canoes and precious provisions to the rapids. Game and fish eluded them, and they were reduced to searching, often in vain, for Brazil nuts, hearts of palm...
Richard Wheeler wants to tell you a story about a bird--a fine but flightless bird that lived a long time ago in the North Atlantic. "A magnificent creature," he calls the great auk, "an extraordinary paddler and swimmer." Sitting on the deck of a Wareham, Mass., home adorned by portraits and a sculpture of the 2-ft.-tall black-and-white bird, the shaggy-maned Wheeler scowls when he thinks about the great auk's fate. During the 18th and 19th centuries, commercial fishing vessels scoured the waters off North America for cod. Since the all but defenseless great...
...into the water, the paddles fall off and you float down the river." Joshua N. Gert '87 said of his two-man paddler...
Harvard notched third-place finishes in two other races, and Laura Downey turned in particularly fine performances in both the individual medley and the freestyle relay. The junior paddler took last year off after setting seven school records the season before...
Carlsson turned back MIT's number three man in an exciting match to give Harvard its only point in the first division. Farkas won his bout against the fifth-ranked MIT paddler, to avoid a Harvard shutout in division...