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Malaria investigations in the U. S., Brazil, Nicaragua, Palestine, the Philippine Islands, Salvador and Porto Rico "offered additional proof that under ordinary conditions many communities can reduce malaria to an almost negligible point, at per capita costs which are within the limits of local taxation...
...maps, the vast inland wilderness surounding the uncertain juncture of Venezuela, Colombia, Brazil gives the impression of being as well known to the world as the valley of the Mississippi. On the contrary, few white men have ever penetrated it. Here are the scenes of all sorts of fantastic romances, like Conan Doyle's The Lost World and W. H. Hudson's Green Mansions. Here is the fascinating stream called the Casiquiare, reputed to flow both ways and to connect the Rio Negro, largest northern tributary of the Amazon, with the Orinoco. Here nations have not yet ceased...
...sources of the Orinoco will be surveyed and mapped. The region is one of the hottest, as well as the most dangerous places on earth, infested by disease, insects, animals, savages. Mrs. Rice intends also to visit a school for Indian children at Sao Gabriel Mission, Brazil, which she established on previous trips. Under Spanish fathers, this school has metamorphosed the life of the community. The region is also a happy hunting-ground for ethnological studies. Curious native customs abound. Records of them and specimens of their culture will be collected for the Peabody Museum of Harvard. The cannibalistic tribes...
...Visitors at the White House included Governor Towner, of Porto Rico; President Koerner, of the Supreme Court of Czecho-Slovakia; Augusto Cochrane de Alencar, Ambassador from Brazil...
...arara, a flat flounder-like fish of northern Brazil, has its tail equipped with a sharp spike containing a kind of poison. When the fish senses danger it raises the spike perpendicularly. Natives walking in the shallow waters of the region have been pierced, poisoned to death by the weapon...