Word: rivers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...were lost once for five weeks," said Dr. McGovern in reply to a question. "The South American has too much imagination. Not satisfied to leave blank the unexplored part of his continent, he fills the map with detail. When one reached a point where the map shows a river, but there is none, it causes uncomfortable confusion. We had to live on monkey meat and caterpillars, great fuzzy ones. I never thought they would be so tough, but these took a lot of chewing...
...captured by Admiral Dewey in the Battle of Manila Bay. Some years ago she was refitted and sent to occupy a station of the Yangtze Patrol Gorges at Ichang, just below the Yangtze Gorges. The trials and tribulations the Elcano met with in navigating the comparatively quiet stretch ot river between Hankow and Ichang make a legend dear to the hearts of the merchant skippers at Ichang. Some say she was towed up by hundreds of Chinese trackers, and others that she came up under her own power, making sometimes as much as 15 miles a day. Yangtze rivermen frequently...
...Palos went down river to Shanghai early last spring for overhaul and since then has never gotten further up river than Ichang, although she has been badly needed on the upper stretch, and has made several attempts. Chungking residents have a popular ditty to the tune of "Parlez-vous," the two essential lines of which...
...Scandinavian plateau† and start a beeline migration. They move by the million, having families more plentifully than ever on the march; destroying crops and herbage; preyed on by throngs of bigger beasts. They never hesitate,moving on (like Theodore Roosevelt and his children**) over every obstacle, lake, river, mountain, until they reach the sea. Here their blind instinct persists and out they swim, still in the line of the migration, until the last one is drowned. Only a few will have stayed behind, hibernating or lacking true lemming instinct, or perhaps so hardy that they have not felt...
...trot and then to a gallop, while the wind continued to rise and the air to fill with dust. Nearer came the riders, gaining rapidly, so that it seemed that half an hour would bring them upon us. Ten minutes more and we ran into a dried river course, filled with smooth, rounded stones, the most treacherous footing imaginable. Over this our camels slipped and floundered desperately, while Hamida rasped furious curses in mixed French and Arabic and lashed the faltering baggage camels. Finally, one of these missed his footing and went sprawling among the boulders, his long legs waving...