Explorer's Temptation

Explorer William Montgomery Brown, who a year ago told "Boston rocking-chair voyagers" of jungaleering in the Amazon hinterland among "a human race so low that other natives call them animal folks, of finding caterpillars tough eating," (TIME, Nov. 22, 1926), told another one in his travel book published last week in London:

"The daughter of one of the leading tribesmen, a girl of 16 or 17, undertook with great zest the task of instructing me in the vernacular. We would sit side by side for hours and a hundred...

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