Word: sabana
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Week after week, month after month, three young Italian prospectors methodically paddled up & down the swift tributaries of the Caroní River. Their leader, a geologist, was convinced that diamonds were to be found where the streams cut through the jungle-swathed sandstone edges of the Gran Sabana plateaus along Venezuela's remote Brazilian frontier...
Good Night, Girls. The Italians knew that the Gran Sabana was full of miners, and that several had been trailing them. They had to work fast. They slept in the open, bolted what food Indians brought them, worked at night with flashlights. They would not even stop to build a shelter; that would have taken a whole day and they were making 10,000 bolivares...
After dark, diamonds lost some of their charms. The women lived freely with the men, changing partners frequently. One girl of 20, called Penicilina, devoted herself exclusively to the oldest profession. Famed through the Gran Sabana, she wore five or six diamond rings, gold nugget necklaces and bracelets. Rum flowed over from Brazil at $30 a bottle. Men got drunk and gambled away $3,000 a night. But even the roughest observed the code: there were no robberies...
...third was already touring Central America in a light plane. In September, they plan to meet and go back to prospecting for diamonds along the Caroní's other tributaries, paying particular attention to the ledges over which the streams tumble on their way from the Gran Sabana to the Río Orinoco...