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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JUNE 5, 1954.
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A COLUMN OF THE UNUSUAL ABOUT PEOPLE AND PLACES AND THINGS
when
violeni earthquake the whole country. Agents UNDERWEAR A wealthy - CITY
clent. Greek swept hugo tidal waves across were posted at Piraeus and the
the level of the mala
Customs airports and city of the 4th the city and, century BC. is awaiting ca- sen mounted. Elke was drown- officers were naked to be extra
200 covery.
Elike, The city in
A.D. careful when checking outgoing ed. Until the year A
the dead passengers.
all efforts under
Again the marble roots of Greek Pompell burled
Gulf city's
still yielded nothing. 138 feet of water in the
monuments of Corinth. Experts any that visible Just above the sen level, » 1,000 yards anly an "underwater explorer," at a distance
Re the famous Frenchman from the coastline. Now only a Commander Cousteau, coulti diver can see 1. really "discover" the city and ith secrets.
The story of Elke goes back to a December night in 373 M.C.
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NO MORE There LINES
were
Nothing that is, until one day last week when an exasperated! ofteer called on the security Preslstent ** the Greek
Society
of Psychle Research. and explained the cane, Liter be at
at a secret spiritual seance the 1 experienced
easter discipline In Press, noked
tor
future
Dutch soldiers. A new Ariny order "E" forbids any soldier being forced were.
office drawer
This book is
a
MUST, says Robin
Hutcheon
THEIR HONEYMOON WAS
SPENT IN
THE
which
JUNGLE
And the "Jungle": Wo follow "THE JUNGLE AND THE (and the photography)
so delightful, the Davia's three canoes at first DAMNED." By Hossoldt make this book
Thank her for the fact that she through the open placid waters Davis (Harrap, London,
of the Maroni estuary, past the never allowed the expedition to 15/4)
degenerate into 11 nightmare sparso fringes of the river murderera, civilisation into a land which when unrepentant ASSOLDT DAVIS, an
deformed lepers, Is Invisible beyond 100 yards grotesquely American explorer, voices of unseen Indians in the head and a similar distance has written a book
ancestors blood-sucking vampire behind bordered and complete- about his explora- buta, endless
of blue- ly enclosed by giant trees and and the dense follage of the jungle.
H
Jorest,
colls
snakeg
вест
Vicious Rapids
wulers.
a medium totlone in French Guiana-a grey anaconda where the
documents and of primeval forests, bowling monkeys made the seven
like stages
to Hell The medium went into a of unbelievable wild life and
day's punting on the pleasant to write out A mapy 11: J trance and began to "see". The
whose Thames, thousand Umes the words "I les would be found in the tribes of Indians
Frequently vicious rapids where they were faces
"The Jungle and The Damn- must not be a bad soldier." The
have been seen by
scarred the translucent ed"; "The Damned" being the punishment used to be giyen for usually kept. The medium was white men
the verge on
golden butterfiles per- the Huge mistakes at drill.
right. No one had thought
colony of of
strange little It deuth. of violent
will
hopeful and the hopeless at formed lovely fandangoes over looking there!
probably rank with "Kon- Cayenne-reprieved murderers,
ers, stony islands, Lavender fovera wayed at them as their native Tik" and the Fawcett ex- assassins, perverts, sex maniacs,
towards their crews poled them towar thieves perjurers, one of gangsters. ploration story, as
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the
and creeks and those
lesser breeds who goal where travel and the three best
rivers were
the haunted Just unfortunate enough were of this to differ with the policies
said by amphibian storica
Df
who lived under prople the French Government at the
river, breathing water. de. time,
In this country dragons
AERIAL The world's first PAVEMENT "pavement in the air" has far gone The part of
122
NOW - "HITLER
The
The 19
This is t 1300
#iter
But
Legend dies hard. up in Paris- wh
1 ts kendventure 10 scheme to unkuot the RESEARCH" city"
alive by ex-century. Nuz fanatics, by ex-Servicemen. worsening traffic tangle,
Ernest Hemingway ute" The
is by writers and politicians, "pavement
"Cas- anything thi darag
The West Ger-scribes the book as e-ign
tolcinating." But Davis's ud- Government-pledged conceived by the world's most
architects. bas ugly id de quxrney-is actually venture would put any advanced
a Anuncing a research centre been balli as an adjunct in
Hemingway's to shame more "aerial garage for Munich, to discover big
the fe and even his last one in 1,000 cars just completed nex! formation about
times of Adolf Her. to St Lazare station--one of the elly's
traffic worst areas for juns
734'
of
the giant
Is one that pedes rinns may
How esitt The www.d
and out of true path at 100 2 paviment built
aard
pedestrians
walk up
Terw
that
who want to CTO
Mel do is rump. 1ound the
the
the lary plac
circular "pavenient in and down the ramp at the street they want to go to,
HYPNOTIST Greek Secret
have Servicemen TO THE
been working hard RESCUE
for the past three months-trying to trace a file of confiden tal documents which their
Office
reported
them.
It all
Ir
-
1
Africa
The earch evntee is called
when he nearly lost his life, If I relapse into superla
the
The Institute for Re earch into tives in this review, I make the Noti nal Socialist Ern". The no apologies. In fact State Governments
of Baden-superlatives should be writ- Bavaria Wurttemberg,
and ten in expital letters, lesse are also contributing 10 its funds.
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So far
this book is a MUST!
For
of
OR
From the convlet colony Cayenne with Its now nat grim Devil's Island a few short Hassoldt miles to the North,
fantastic 300- Davis made mile canoe-trek up the Maroni Turoue Humne the border of
10
nobody has seriously the quality of the inletaril Institute's "creuinentalion". but various taxpayers' groups have protested that there seems to be
point spending their River money to duplicate
re-mountains what butable Allled historians already Brazil. have done. Unless,
courge the Institute has some special talent" from which it wants this research to be tackled!
Decause the law in the near-
The
on
A Poot
But Davis is not
Gr
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Social Strata
Indians
were
the
they
Raw
or green iguanas four feet long
spider crabs inches from toe to toe Reven
anneonda Jaguary
with high sinkes which sang sweet volers reflies which fascinated by burning
ends
at night omnivoraus on's howling monkeys whose
wounded voices rumbling immense Un
cigarette
definite certain There were
sirunge in this sectal ntrata
titrea,
transportes, velete
all self surpeilianfs. poder, classifed according to the par- delar infamy which had earned them a permanent home in the dreaded steaming convict settle. menta
Royale Island, a barren stony where outcrop in the Atlantic once a thousand criminals had 'nicd, sweated
and bled, wes now just the home of a few old incorrigible murderers"lean looking men with thin lips, high check bence, Funker by's and over the shoulder, that glance They had the faces of men who, after 20 years of imprisonment, have not u dream or a hope to disturb them."
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zayn,
This
and
Da
Of
VA "They moved around in slow motion photography. They were terrible cartoons of had men and women for some no noses and some no cars, One danced crazily Annamite boy abced of us, striking the style ad boxing
postures which his Khmer
had com- on memorated
the walls Angkor Wat. Like most of the others ho had been sent, as О USIK
and convict to French Guiana,
doubly had paid for his crime by contracting leprosy here, but he his spirit was unbroken;" punched fists without Angers at the bare sky, and he praneed An old.
on feet without toea.
n
man crawled on his elbows and knees from his hut's doorway, and spoke in thick words like bubbling porridge".
And
stumbled
the sick min who Into the explorer's camp one day looking emaciated and ill. Did he want whisky, brandy.
rum,
Vitamins
A,B,C,D,E, or F., Klim or any
of the number of drugs bad in their
they
medicine chest?
No, all he wanted was
Quaker Oais!
a iin of
Jungle Fight
And the fight ronding
of
Ulke boulders
cana,
"The
in
in the jungle between the two convicts who had been seconded to the ex- Ad. the French
like the pedition by gurgle of Thick water going ministration at Cayenne: down a cosmic drain, nothing
to
and like doga earthly" which "thiked"
piranhas nsh (which the or cannibal author found surprisingly docile contrary the legends we heard of schools of have all these fah ripping the flesh off д man within minutes)
"as big as buffalo bull Trous your head grunting Wow! Wow!” Zomble birds which the nntives
said
would stick their bills through your heart as you Vampire nights slept at bats who would stop at nothing to suck blood from the A
unwary Alghts of colourful parrots and flamingoes which made an ever-changing mosale against the green of the jungle "sky",
Leper Colony
relegue with
AT
"He in only thief." Bald Mohammed
A murderer. contempt, "I am [YLATE," he said proudly he stalked off into the jungle after his whimpering quarry, And the Indians: the matriar- chal villages of The Apatou where the wemen ruled the roost-pure Africans in a South
They American Jungle.
had cacaped from plantations in the and the Carib- three Guianas bean Islands and had establish- ed themselves as an independent colony in the jungle.
who And the Raucouyennes painted themselves a brilliant vermilion to make themselves beautiful and to protect them- selves from the bites of insects; who wore orange coronets woven feathers; who looked like "elongated eskimos"; insisted
Devil's Island was a paradise
contrast.
island- by The book is written by
contrary to popular Sunday explorer, a well-travelled
Action harboured newspaper plorer who has Journeyed from only the elite.
mostly the warm and friendly Anti-
political prisoners at that. country's Fore.gn
MARRIAGE Ndola, a town of podes to the frozen heights of This week missing.
7.000 in Northern the Himalayas, BUSINESS
from the dark never had a murderer-or the search ended successfully
visiting journalist on it. It was Rhodesla, is get: Jungles of Africa to the world a soft asylum for traitors and when the cesperate Investigators ting a reputation as the Reno of
of porpetual green night in the discredited
Davis called in a hypnolts to hep Africa,
politicians," Gulanas.
Just on The grim prisons with the began last November by Bellen Couce doesn't allow exploits, and not just a writer; disgusting evil little cells, even when a file containing papeva of remarriage after divorce for the le a poet, And on this the guillotines stand On the
was a poet in love islands still.
hoot-hours-long It is ironical that spics least nine months, couples are Journey he great vaher to foreign
com- their infamy is now to be ex- There was nipping across the border for for it was a honeymoon suddenly vanished.
the ceremony.
In Nola a te bined
with exploration-surely ploited by an Americon alcline discreet investiga ion at Arst,
week residence is enough.
the strangest honeymoon a which belleves it
it may yet and produced which
no results.
br.dk young
h20 ever bz'n El Dorado in this country-only the Ball the court clerk: was said Sem uspleton
the gold mines will be "De subjected to.
marvel
at Davis's intrepid dollar tourists lured by weigh on certain Foreign Office fore the news of the £3000,000
copper refinery came, 1 was writing then thank his steel- the farcination of this macabre employees cntrusted with the
wondering
was nerved young wife, Ruth who If remarriage
setting and the pitiful lotsam Jam-kuraping of the m ng Ale not going to be Ndola's biggest was
for responsible
the of the convict community A second investigation covered Industry."
of human touches Cayenne.
VIGNETTES OF LIFE
THE EXPERT AT FIELDING
THE BRIDE'S
BOUQUET.
SHE USED TO PLAY LEFT FIELD FOR THE BLOOMER
GIRLS /
ल
WHY DIDN'T
1 ELOPE ?
10
THE BRIDE
you
multitude
Here Comes The Bride
I LOOK
GHASTLY
IN GREEN!
"
PINK DOESN'T
DO A THING
FOR
ME!"
THE YOUNGER MEMBERS OF THE WEDDING STAGE A PREVIEW OF DOMESTIC HARMONY.
-THE WEDDING
GIFTS.
IS ALL SET — BUT
THE BRIDESMAIDS
WILL BE LUCKY
IF THEY ARE
IN TIME FOR THE
WEDDING.
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As they Journeyed farther up river, they found, they had entered a land shufused even by birds and animals. It was the domain of the scorpions and the vampires.
And the leper colony at- tended
by Mother Genevieve and her young Nuns; here ly of Hassoldt Davle's pen-picturo of
these pathetic people:
BY HARRY
WEINERT
-THE
BACHELOR UNCLE TAKES CARE OF ALL
THE MINOR DETAILS.
MORE BACON,
DEAR 7*
SIDE — HE NEVER HAD
GOOD.
of
who On dreadful teats courage and fortitude for their young men approaching Mon- submissions
ta
Tribal
them
with
yours
tings and bites by huge angry warps trapped in woven mats; whose men were bisexual because of the strange Jaws which prevented from having intercourse their wives for two after the birth of a child; whose corn wine shame- men drank lessly and then engaged in long- distance spewing contests.
Never Seen
And the others, the unseon Oyaricoulets, whose voices were Everywhere in the unexplored forests Acar the Brazilian borders, who were never sight- ed but who tantalized the ex- plorers, drawing them onwards with
their welcome signs of white balls of kapok on spears. The red ball was the danger sign which could never be Ignored. Earlier a party of 50 French explorers had scoffed at the red Kapok warning and brutally massacred the following night.
WAS
Hassoldt Davis and his wife travelled farther Into the jungle than any previous white ex- plorer. But their journey ended abruptly with the advent of the sinister red warning signs and a mutiny by their fearful native
crew,
This is a book of 242 pages packed with excitement and gripping interest,
It is impossible to feel detached at any stage of the- book You are not in a comfy chair in your lounge reading. You are IN the Jungle ·with Davis and his wife and Hong- kong's summer weather, the buzzing mosquitoes, the caco- phony of insect sounds in the only add
Hongkong night
realism to this remarkable book.
Never Another
Oddly enough I have left mentioning until the last the power and vitality of the author's description but from the liberal quotations Included in this review, It is possible to gaugo the holghts" of Hassoldy Davis's literary ability.
The power
his imagery in tremendous, the tempo of the story beautifully controlled,
A post-explorer, is rare.com- bination these days. When you realise that Davis Is also on extremely able story-teller (the book is sprinkled with anecdotes. sufficient to fill a volume of short stories) you can under- stand that this book is excep=" Romei,
While the quality · of the photographeia extremely good I do feel the author could have selected a batter rånenwhy not the shot of him probing giant anaconda action with
snake
stick
into for
small
But don't let this deler you. Tokë, my: advice: Spend - dollars on this book there wil probablygbevet, be snailag Uha