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Deep in the Mato Grosso jungles, beyond the Rio das Mortes (River of Deaths), live 15,000 Chavante Indians, members of the fiercest Indian tribe in all Brazil. For decades Brazil's Indian Protective Service agents have sought to tame and civilize the warlike Chavantes under their uniquely Brazilian motto of "pacification through love." Though the agents never used arms, even in self-defense, the ferocious Chavantes rebuffed them. One agent who dared to cross the River of Deaths was left dead under a pile of 1,000 war clubs...
...Natives. The best piece in the book is the title essay, a slender recollection of an incident during Orwell's days as a British constable in Burma. Orwell had been called out to shoot a tame elephant gone rogue. He did not really want to shoot the beast, but behind him stood a crowd of Burmans ready to jeer if the white man faltered. Since "a sahib has got to act like a sahib," Orwell pumped his bullets in the animal's hide, reflecting "that when the white man turns tyrant it is his own freedom he destroys...
...detail about a human friend sometimes puzzles animals: whether he is male or female. Often males decide the keeper is female, and try to fight over him or mate with him. "A tame emu in the Basle zoo," says Dr. Hediger solemnly, "reguiarly tries to mate with its keeper. If it happens with a moose . . . the man concerned is in some danger...
...based on the rural vote and Georgia's unique, decrepit county-unit system. Roy himself was born on a farm in southeast Georgia, knew his woolhatters and had something on almost every politician in the state. In a state where 122 city votes can be offset with one tame woolhatter in a rural county and 25 woolhatters can sometimes swing a county, Roy's system worked fine...
...exams are given after lunch, and if a man doesn't have a scholastic obligation, he either goes back to sleep, plays a little croquet on the lawn, or tosses a couple of horseshoes. The crewmen are not permitted to injure themselves and are therefore restricted to such relatively tame activities; in any case, they have little inclination to exert themselves. A ten mile row before breakfast (when the river is calm) is generally enough to eliminate any desires they harber for violent exercise later...