Word: sierras
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sailed through the Pacific, out to Hawaii, up to Alaska, recruiting henchmen in every bar, trading famously, until he reached the mud huts of San Francisco and bargained for an empire with the Spanish padrés and governors. He had gained it by merely promising to guard the Sierra passes against Americans and Indians...
...Between Sierra Leone and the Ivory Coast, there stretches 350 miles of junglous coastline. Back of it, for some 200 miles into the interior of Africa, there are great jungles, and 2,000,000 Negroes and 120 white men. About 50,000 of the Negroes are civilized and run an independent sovereign republic and have done so for 78 years. They speak English. They elect a President, a Senate and a House of Representatives They have a Cabinet consisting of a Secretary of State, a Secretary of the Treasury, a Secretary of the Interior, an Attorney General, a Postmaster General...
...travelers had crossed the Sierra Pacaraima from Brazil into Venezuela to investigate the aboriginal legend that the Orinoco and the Amazon have a common source. They came to the Rio Merarwi and here, stars ill-boding, three of their canoes capsized, dumping out five months' provender and sending the party speedily homewards. (Hence Stevens' monkey meat...
...venomous winged ants pours out of the jungle to dispute possession of the clearing. They are used to these annoyances, and could themselves be annoying if you should ascend the Parima River to its source and find them at home, before they have made their annual pilgrimage over the Sierra Parima to the Orinoco Basin in Venezuela. But these placid cannibals were most likely at a loss, last winter, when they pricked their ears to the distant humming of a billion ants on the move, a humming that became the drone of a host of baritone bees, of one giant...
...Freetown, Sierra Leone, a dense crowd of Negroes, whose blackness was illuminated by a riot of colored dress, greeted the Prince. Many came arrayed in top hats and wedding clothes and were transported in Ford cars; big black mammies carried their toothless babes on their backs. Cries of "King Pikkin" (the King's Baby Son) welcomed the Prince as he read an address and distributed the King's medal...