Word: roraima
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Expedition (ABC, 7-7:30 p.m.). A trip to the Roraima plateau in South America, inspiration for Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World...
Harold Elmer Anthony of the American Museum of Natural History is taking three airplanes to map the highlands between Mounts Duida and Roraima, Venezuela. His geologists think they will find gold in that district, perhaps diamonds...
...Garnett Day Expedition which returned in February with birds and mammals collected on Mt. Roraima in British Guiana, financed by Lee Garnett Day, importer of South American products, Manhattan...
From flat Mt. Roraima the explorers-T. D. Carter, G. H. H. Tate and G. M. Tate (younger brother of G. H. H.)-leveled their binoculars across lower flat-topped mountains towards Brazil, British Guiana and Venezuela. They saw, through the frequent rain & mist, water dropping in a vertical fall 2,000 feet. They saw water flowing south down rills, brooks, creeks, rivers to the Amazon and thence eastward to the Atlantic; they saw dripping from jungle trees moisture that was to flow north through the muddy Orinoco and the cascading Essequibo rivers into the Caribbean...
Quaint birds, animals and reptiles moved about them-atop Mt. Roraima, and on the plateau below. Mr. Carter killed a jaguar as it was feeding on its kill, a colt. The elder Mr. Tate killed a poisonous bushmaster snake five feet long just after he had stepped across it in the dark. One of their 130 Arecuna Indian porters hacked with his machete at a 14-ft. anaconda until it was dead and ready for eating. (Anaconda flesh tastes something like chicken.) They snared birds, netted insects, disinterred ground plants, culled orchids from their treeholds, pounced on small beasts. Rare...