Word: undergrowths
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...field, less than 700 ft. in length. Oozy ground sucked at the wheels, kept him from attaining the 70 m. p. h. required to zoom off. Toward the end of the runway, going about 50 m. p. h., the ship bounced off a low mound, cut through heavy undergrowth, somersaulted over a stone wall. Hawks cut the motor in time, saved himself from cremation...
...they had only one week actually on Cocos to find the treasure. But Capt. Campbell had very specific clues, thought a week would do it. Cocos. 400 mi. off the Colombian coast of South America, is a small island (six nautical miles each way) but mountainous, covered with dense undergrowth. The clue, naturally not divulged, was supposed to lead to a large rock which formed the door of the treasure cave...
...MOST armchair explorers are like the reviewer, they will imagine that the danger of the jungle lies in the ferocious beasts that slink about among the undergrowth. Such, as anyone who reads "Green Hell" will find out, is not the case. Insects clouds of them are the real bete noire of the adventurer, and the smaller they are the worse they...
...When we were about fifty miles south of Zubeir, shots rang out fired at a distance of about 200 yards, but nobody was in view owing to the undergrowth. Our Arab driver immediately turned the car around and with great presence of mind, swerved and went full speed...
...fishing isn't much, so they tell elephant stories. The Uganda game department last fortnight told this one, protesting truthfulness. A hunter shot an elephant. It fell down a hill. Two other elephants of the herd following down the sharp declivity slipped in the trough made through the undergrowth, fell down the hill, hit the bottom with elephantine bumps, died. Hunters rarely kill three elephants with one shot...