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...docile and domestic Friday to the clergyman's unstrenuous Crusoe. He idolizes Mr. Fortune in place of the grotesque wooden figure which had previously had that honor. But eventually the demands of Christian religion, slender as they were, grow irksome. Lueli dwindles and repines. He goes to the forest in off moments and bows down in the ancestral fashion to images...
Those receiving the University Scholarships were Forest Duane Comfort, of Cambridge; Herbert Graham Espy, of Oxford, California; Anna Forward Faull, of Cambridge; Robert Erwie McConnell, of Brookings, South Dakota; and Waldemar Eric Metzenthin, of Denton, Texas...
...life, in kindness and in all the fishing beatitudes. We gain none of the constructive rejuvenating joy that comes from return to the solemnity, the calm and inspiration, of primitive nature. The joyous rush of the brook, the contemplation of the eternal flow of the stream, the stretch of forest and mountain, all reduce our egotism, soothe our troubles, and shame our wickedness. . . . I am for fish. Fishing is not so much getting fish as it is a state of mind and a lure of the human soul into refreshment. But it is too long between bites; we must have...
Within a few months, Mr. & Mrs. Johnson expect to set out for the Congo to film gorillas, okapi (large shy forest-dwelling herbivore, with bizarre stripes, as yet unphotographed...
...Bandits. "Robbed and maltreated by bandits. Have Nambikuara and Pareccis collections," said a cablegram dated May 5 at Sao Paulo, Brazil, from Francis Gow-Smith, explorer and ethnologist for the Museum of the American Indian (Heye Foundation). The Museum was relieved, having feared him lost in Matto Grosso (thick forest) Province, Brazil. He had previously been reported as having eaten Christmas dinner with Commander Dyott in an Indian village. He had described the Nambikuara Indians as: most primitive; eating only raw food (snakes included) ; wearing a macaw feather in their noses; and no clothes. Mr. Gow-Smith, more than...