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News becomes history: the miracle of Florence
hc'* 1 Ht- soWvtALLV peaceful AmuRiver rampaged through Morenee
last fall, endangering many of nui4kind*si
j.'.reulesl treasures (if art and learning,
the GEOCftAi’iHt. sent a skilled team 10
treuryf and ev;duale the tragedy Staff
writer Joseph Judge t'lcH) searched out
eyewitnesses and heroes of the miracle
of recovery Assistant illustrations edi
lor 1 homas R. Smith (Ccrtler) selected
i lie cream nl JJflO photographs; staff
artist Robert W Nicholson irighli made
a graphic map-painting. Resultf ihe 43-
paac presentation tltat leads this issue,
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And finding a place to slay.
T hen cash.How much to take? How muchto spend for this, for that?
Together, these things can add up to more
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way for you to lake a trip.
And the firsl thing we did was make our
Credit Card more of a Vacation Credit Card.
Steep now, pay later.
Now it ran get you food and a place fo stay
at 1400 good motets ac ross thecountry
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much cash. Or worry about it running out
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OurCredit Card is only oneof the sways wecan make your trip a tittle smoother.
We have Travel Information Center - m nui
stations along the mapr highways,
And a Tree Tour Routing Service at ail of
our stations. (Jus! tell us where you 'ne gang.
And we'll send ypu a marked map showing
vou how to get there, i
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a prompt refund. Anywhere in the world, And
foe the full amount . She
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SOLO BY LEADING BA.NUB CVEKYW HER E .
This tiny, newZenith hearing aidis the sound of
Big Ben,the Indianapolis 500,Aida,Malibu Beach,Beethoven's 5th,the 5 o’clock rush,Opening night,“Flay ball”,clocks ticking,a puppy’s whimper,the coffee perking,soft summer rain.and...
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This is trio size of sound All the bnghi beautiful, exciting snd CWi (riots
rounds of the world you live sn
Sounds you rnay net £)e hearing as well 34 you once did. Or hearing al all:,
This is the size of an astonishing Zenith hearing a> rj„ One of our 16
different models, |i is so tiny, you wear ri in your ear.
Alioi
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you nmay well call It a small miracle
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Protein Is the plus in lobster. Polyunsaturates are the plus in Mazola:
Ecrt Eobsfef and yofcqetm&frfcn jud good tale. You
tiw “pirn" of protein.
UieMoznln Com Q'A aftdMcJoroMflrgQrim and yougstmore tilan good tosfe Yov Aw "plus"' df pairunsaJu roles-.
Mnzofo 100% Com OiFooeifflor'e ihan melee <rit£y
fried foods and tongy salad dressings. Mesoid Margarine*
whoiG mo|o i ingredient is tiqu >d Maiald Com 0il„
does mg-re than make toost, vegetables or lofeslps latfe bettee
Manolfij used in pfcice oF ihe more sclu-mre-d FciH r is asimply delicicHn. way to help balance the Fob
in yaurdiei wrik po-Jpunsoiurota
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ilijis inumiivii- ihi'1 rmirm.ur of tlie
iTiidli' i inkling flf altnr br I-. the dance of
tandS^HgliT in tht douri-riiLrluined naive
^yfidenJy a cry of alarm exploded ni l he
k|iihjt[ r /wflnl—Tbe Amo l* our"
fhr (rigJiU'ned band of fTjrnrifnm-—
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pritsLs and brothers—'fusbfcd to the lnm\
door*. It wns 7 a.m »m N'hvcitiIht v I rtitn
mid ihe ugony nf Horence had begun
\rmss an cttgMt piazza, an$ry hn-4fcrr>
of mam lashed the concrete wall iluM the
Amu's northern bank The rivet htnl .i I reads
broken Through farther lapslrr.nn. owl-ft mtfft
brr^DfH tide iitreaked with sedinjetii -mill nil
w i- rushing Toward (he fin.--:- down Borofr
Num^intJ i fold out map Tuinlinib page
QdckJy they bolted the heavy wooden
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began carrying pews and amic^tniut]> in the
tiruLid marble sfep before (hr high -iihitr.
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against the grip nf the iron Then, with acrack
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had smash rd hi' way in ' rather IViioiH m».
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"till won- the Wfjirintes of 1 3ie nrdeaJ
When the ilmu- burst; open, h ihunduriEig
iv4v> -wept down the Song tsave .jeii l 4m I-l- in
a lorrtni of fonitii tfgsilrtsl the altar. Oil -black
(Tests cluwrd at ISUi-ctinlurs pu^lrrpivccs-
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Sandm BrrtticdH's fresco "Saint Aujpt&ittic/'
Domenir>;i E phirLwirbiiVs " Saint Jerome Mand
'Marlnnnn of Mm# '*
* )rit- nf the priests, Father Fklro, phm^cdinto tin: <nld water* and struggled toward the
doors* hopine to force fliem dosed He wmdri v e n bnclft, numbed and exhausted, ,-±- the
Arno dui ;lUu> knees and dragged him down
[JiH li iod|mn 1 : I thr flfKid i IN-
rbui-hiirfi pu n Filing thr w a\ iu 4nuE-i-ijm commemorating MJihelaagE-ki anil
lii S,id 1 1 i 'rtit r, ,t chimb hr Isnetf Wdl
”I Hi" &4.vcd me." he .-.aid wiih a §eJ&£on-
sciou~ smile He lirnJ up the end of .1 long
curtain nifie ihm lie had clutched and buns:
onto he! fore his nunpiininns fUbed him buckwith the help of a i&n&r
B> ci±t]\ afternoon , I he Arno hud pEufUfcd
deep irvti-i iht labyrinth of Florence A strum.1
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tide from the city Swept into the church fromLhr nppEftiii dtreclinii, and witlt .l final irnny
dammed dun tin: very doors the Arno badlir-L broken thruugh-
3-' ir dny- afterword, l he prints ul tjjpti&-
-arm lookeri dow0 1 mtn 1 ?i t! i r wfn di *ws u poh1 hr dcva static?] 1 A rid
;d l K i re rvre Bella arou n d
ihem looked bku ,1 lake Imitiirn, dim) andn-vkingk seemingk buried forever
FTKENZE BELLA Beautiful Flore ore,
the trunher country of Western man. his
fair to say that much of whin we knowtoday of pai n1itig and Kulpture, of an biici-
lure and polttii\il -n icoce* nf scientific methodand tfi'nnrjcnii: theury , wr nwc to r
h-. artaht>
pol iticmtis, &tale5men Tbanker& h and mere h ants
01 the KcnijjA^uiie—that explosion or" i n E el
le 1 1 UpiI ami artistic energy in Italy he twi.no.
1 arid 16<B. And Flnrvnhncs stood at the
turbulent 1 enter ; rlu1 h-etsais-^nce
13 err the Middle Apes dimiKeri in llir cou-
nt ir journey of pxiicd Duttt through Hell,
I\irgaiofry a and Paradise here t.hr wAndrrilnf
JViran h m-uut die first sweet notes nf modempoetry and inspired Boi-r;iiL-io to flcvelop the
ntofkrn prose narrarivc
In Florence, Gfiltteo pursued hLi stuflif -»
f
motion that would lead event uallv to Ni.uton
an si the law o f gravity First man rn gftgtf
through a telescope upon the moon? or JupiLet
;miL the lunar landscape, iinJlIen chnngpit
forever our cortcepl of the universe.
0j*re w'iw blngihn hi^own tlniE-
lhr rra^ii. progress freib autocrm > in rcipoh-
Ljcanbro to tyranny, left a legacy of jjoEjiii'nl
thought thmt stiJS m^trucU statesmen.
lint Fin renews greatest glorv wiis it? gTiluxy
of artist-—Cionibue itncl his ureal pupil Giottn,
Ma-a« Ao, IVcdlo, Fra HUppU Uppi. Bdl-
"i'-'clU. LnnaMb iia Vfetrf; (he sculptors DhE-h*ru, Ihijsmclkj, and mighty Michdan^Io;the architects BrENiehrschi, .\lherd, Mirbt-1 1 • Att 1 . in nam u 1 1 ut a few \ I an\ nf f h ei r w i>rk .-
reniain in place in a city essential ly itnchnug^dfor 400 vtiar?
r
These thoughts nf Fbi^Utc W'rri i iiTnTnnn
in 1 he world »^n November w htMi ihi' 1'it^S
news of tragerly crackled across continents
\i rkiv-ii she Amn Rjvtt lia I risen frnrn its
LiaJik- Flic drapiru! ritj. ^n innunpurabb'
treasure house of ar^ had beapti rngutfed in a
roaritiK Itdi: of silt lmdeTi water and furl mil
Wrt? it |
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3 ti lc ? ilowK did it happen? Whathad been h>ar? WIijiI could be saved?
Tboss- quest] dins wt-h* tin mur minrU os 1
N\tk 1 tiffat. t tTAx ;ravhk team I LIuStmtlolls
editor IVim Smith, mist Bob Nlcholsan, andI hastily prepareil i->r a .slid mi --inn Wrwr-rti la Florence to record a disaster—little
knovviag (hits in the weeks and months to
come we would ,dso nriiorl 4 numdc
hemfitig to li lieafthrvbildpg task, mi as and ; iftailenl viHanterr \om in Ffi’lmnntiK
Rflhdt't, Thim\ lir^a nut the loddirn Wfr^kagp »f a npli^mtvurtj fli
ki ^liop m-iit Iht
ratheilral In otie day aiiij nighb charniriK writer Unit struck without Warnme hrouehiin ii- al. 1I1'- eru-l unit -k- -ivnli-. I crtfC rrf - r I ri- hi ! i-emLlt- ol an liir v.r Floren
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romr^i in its jppcariiJrrr h*Um Tta lhn«i (rhjhii "The Cuilwr
^ii flaWiitiAe paititiitsi* poru&ytci the apuny \>i Christ jiIhiliI
jlitO: t'«rf (he Church of S»nT,i Oocr, im- YVe-tmin -rt-r A bthpy ci
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tTjih Eomh* 1 1 • 1 1 1 Michelangelo, tiiililn « ,im\ Misdllll
^1 Hi Holing oil (chafe* liuhhid Xhr df^ikteJ 1 sm.ilfiifl, mcsrr-
Jcirtamnir work' -iwfiit emergency irraimejii ill rbe church1
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gru^epi lnvisifing' wLiter muf k t*. 1 1!^ £<Mi nil tlrplh iifl the tv idl-
ivjiti j. htm of iui//a—ihlck, bltii'k furnace dli Sttitibd
from I hr illy ' (iii'l ranks. The gprair s-minJite^ the rffcwSupper^ of T'ii/tdri. t-.i'Mi bottom pjuwl uf this s4L]i-etMiUii->
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draw u{j-
rii - n ,: \ i-iLcr* before rhe BpccL Tlie> ^lanrl
nit tlw iU *>J i a i ij i .in town that bceittnt
I 't‘V jiiiul accomplished \'hs Florence'*-i in> ill i hu rr hi* *,
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id BCUj.* in u -irijm
. andliEinine-i pmerve the fgcniitiF nl lln Rfftnli
tarsi' c— i]ie Eiih-licii au\ ftwakemni; nr' ihr
\Uh, L.'th, iihiJ iMh miiurir- that br-
qtauithi'd l*i \Ylatent tnaiL new i nrsi o [ ii >.|
art, letters, ^niTrund rttuurmic^
Mm ll se "'Miracle cif B^rtur" has nowOCrurred- The f ily has been cleansed. AhexttTtarriiniiry salvage operation » s hilled by
hundred ^ nr sEmJ-uijt volijntrm ni rnnn.i n m -
ilcinulitiet, hi*, rn humt-d most of I he books.
The | ijinct fKiinhruiH are rusting in ,i jjc*
i. i..d
Hho^pitnJ"; art expert* now 1 believe that mitny
ffafd to$t wSJ L'lrntually In? wived,
>"Mir nf course, will nul I hr ] i rir < It --
Cmeifuc ii1 .inviiiihi f imabue, priered for
U 1.
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hr ri as i* wits
(preceding piusesjL Many pund puintirijzs im-
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l to the history of art may be beyondtmlvaire. Perhaps the ^raitesi I [?:*>?. rjT uEJ is the
i .LsJ.iliLhty of fit) ninny thousands of rue mi
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ri i-ilr- urn] buok-; ewn I hotiuh they havebeen rt5krut?d physically. thjfey w ill rrmum uul
of reach of scholars and historians until fih
I - I iviimi. it caialqgiifn^ --awd mhet vingHttMt1 h.u tnny he a matter of many years
Still „ Flowe igtlii wears it.-, old uih| cher-
ished look. By ihe titnr (Sic first -.ummer lour
i>e- arrived,, al mnsL ah the hotel*- and pcmteihad reu ik- turd; the museums and KAilerteii d\&-
pluyed most of their treasures; The damaged^hnii> wnnr bright new paint, arid tile crafts-
men wm- back U iht-Sr workbenches At rap-
ed 1
. of nature hud bi rn turned Into a tHumphof human i outage
SXI >W WHIRLED from a silver sky andIhe wind turned bticfc the narrow silver
leave- nf olive frees a> we drove fromHome inward Floremr in its w inter ot dtsa--
ler. Amiri 1 he turn n tin# hills of Tuscany, wepaused: at the ruin nf a nicdioxij diarch; bc*-
:«i[. us ,i i la: nr luntlsc^pe nf empty hidiLuirk
receded tike Wtottcs q( lawny ^ raier color
tuuitrd thtk zrny Amo Vjdka\
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the cUis slopes 6f unrth^ru .inrl ctnlfitl Italy
uirn lluid with the ruins of autumn; iln*ii |)«]sty
ffcbri > Si r i ki* . i he I ie t ts of ri vc?rs, ion:i n ^ rhemmil of T heir hunk- I nt> cver> winter brings
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nn thcM- iMHf-hTtLlc i|opt - that lust
F^r'y furt hud rkst n-
A tone farmer, his narrow back humlieilu^umsE tht edd, dimbed u path thruu^h the
olive grove .1 ih
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greeted us in EndbJi‘ hThc rluod? Ye?, some will lelE you ihe
nmrn.iU knew." he suit]. -They *uy nu bird^
iTew iei slit- whde llu- dm be fore,, amiSmw could a bird ft_v Lhrougth. such a min?^
i>n November i &md J Isist year+ the Acnuwiitershtd received a Lliirri tjf ii ^ aomiiil .iver-
aicc rainfall in twn Nineteen Inches of
ruin fell in hours....
It was 7 p.m. on November .\ whirrs .Siirnui i
bin KaJFaelli fienrd Ihe mecharjicol shriek of adnfti from l.cvane Darn, rlrailHIrnu ihv Arno
.it-
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&$ milr- up siream from Florence fmaft pii^t"
16) Sht and her family, whu live an tuie of
four huusv- 1 IK1 riimn, did Hut believe
iJutt i h-t* warning wm real Two Uo-iir- later
Tht- iiren sounded .igam41 was apfuritad tn set- ihtr giitt^ iiawiy
fipeiiitip,1
later told a rjjfiqftjr.fi4aur| im-
mediatcly an enormous wall of water started
coming dawn ttutMm toward u* T screamedlo my sister and we ran for our live?
Why were 3 he pics o^ticd? How muchwater iium Lihw ^ k,400^)pfi-
mhi^-vard reservoir? A heated rnnlrovmvfi T'
spruita in I Ur in Ike wen. liter ike flood AfiovcmtOdtnl commissinn imj aired into the
charge ihiti la?vane opened its strained gates
her nuse the u|rut jLlyf - nl s -cuind d.ms if
Perma. fiirlhef upstream,, failed to open liseir
gaits until (mo latci and 1 1 i^u had reloasH
ro&rc water i.ban Levant could handle,
tbfs much is certain -tn au gh rain fell on
all northern I tub in l;wo day* In florid "mJ
villupi - and if(XJUniiJj?s ofhlghw jy hHlrown
more Hum a hundred people and '.vXlO'CAUltt
in P t a idt arun from ihv Pm \ alley snmhu -id.
In tins national catastrophe, whatever hap-
pened at 1 he beii^ragutmi tUmi- in TiiM’juiy
ma\ hit; t onsi r It! red contribut i i it’.and 1 1 p i E * num1
Mure Lo tile poinl. perhaps, i- the Flu mist a tip
1 1 rover l_i,M£^|ni(i MOW f.T£S€£4 £?• (ti St4V€ HQti
rttejCf" -The Armi never nsas op unless the
Sieve nil? Eh nip? Before midmuli!. u lute
E fn: Am - Va'lluy v/iin til I in l;, the Sieve River wjis pumpins: unknown lutjs oa luub-VEjim n v -.1wh^ through I .<
n arrow i.on rluencc east oi
The tclcpihont: raup slnuriK after midnight in ihi-
Immir of I r r Col Nircil.i Boi£i H chief of the Plunentine
He had tviln d earh in am id patio n of a
turn diiv on the fourth, a nalinrml hnlida.} cdfbulli^tin -r^L*i .Lrtniver^nf} of !3 k- Italian Lrml-ilU e in WnrjdWas I, The riiy s tiumu1 ilreets and • L> i-zen- of [mr/it-
wirrt i ret hud with dan:-.—the red Horen tine lily on ji
Held of white, and the Italian tficolor os ^rcen, white,
and rerl f naJvti. nJt drooping now in toTTpnfeJjil rain.
It iv. i- .1 iIcnLil 1^ call rrilycd fmtn the Vnlilarnu
district The Amo was riigihn md of it* banks Rondsweft" r-inPriciK: Families were mor-ooned on ruoflupi
i nlorieS lu£zi icoul-d nnr have knmvn sr, bin waterwas -ilft-ath I itn in ninjf 1 1 j I fir Idt tnta the linst-menis t>3
riversidr luimts east nf Florence, i oi- moved aw&vuti ^iJctiE f«rt In defi-Jiat streets the covers of old
M'U'en lienarj So bubble .irnL hUvii thin stmitms
(Cwtiinuied page 17}
Hi rums ^Muntrts. kideR with rubble mnr (hmiiidi
the and rats auidmehlbi -sIhmi Silo- turk-
Trapiml fiTueras wub Ei the srjublemn ti spt^l .Life from5* h*h"Miri pvetlofJtitiR lnlrr-^ ikii! ntur ilir r^Uir
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the i mumble heart tifFlorence, Wafer* polluted
U'ith nil, wieoge, oil, and cjirriort marv*jtt the
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rempwrary Urhogrfl^h morrt- mi t%4 -I floor] ^
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finder on a phujiH: In the Via del NeH Cnjuhtl
ii\t!s.:i ii i LE3i i iii'vi. s in . it Ufett in mi hf?- Hi«h
H^iairr smirk <if l,JW ~lnn\ - 2R imho htghet
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rnjnitp into Mir \nin, optiMar? aS )w(i vcr-
ins*d dams opened nmnl^.nl an November S,
Thr Ftcit (Jiiy Lhr rivet CiplJidted anm !1
1 ?rc oL't.
Hwn IuohhI Aimm3* m rill northern
im rnort thou I iXi people md isiifrulfina tsu dl-
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<rtW? of its early prize* ] could learn tin]\ the
-ivim imm* ui ihu* uetI—
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m.utSit:r sht was -wept along Li the tJirfefll- I i nr i wl ij|r
they clung to a table, until her father, fi^/-dwnd t lost
hi ? gnp lie el m3 hEr wife somehow survived hut three
ditys wnriltl pass before Marina'* s snail body emergedfrom the ruined fields ^hu was ihe first n| *5
ttMiUvo in have perished In the F^n'mc rt'srinp
Shortly* before .1 ii-in. A] Ik!mi MaJFeb who worked iii
the JolU Ciub tie.ir the fnirviu^ Ponte Vccchio, ^tcrnpen
flKlltiife to lonk the nvrr IL- i U'tif i--| lir^p:«l i!l I rnthrcoukl
be heard even above the banpid^ rhythm ut,JThe Vtfllou
Submarine "Ffe noticed light* winkim* in the jeweler^
shops that lined : I: *. bridge, Paris \ enttjfi, GusUvo Melli.
and cither store ti\vn&rs had bi*n worried I »s a vnurrieil
n igti I \\m
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\he\ trained die it tkishhijr.- dow ii upon the -kt-am, tnrj
mild hth luiimis lip fij'fu&tft risifiK fcipitn .inrfeni Jirches
and rise brown heu k of the river hurilmg wllki frighlcmlm;
speed under their feet.
UfNWAKNJ 11 l \ \WARE. and rapcrEinp n tmli
day, Florence ^Jept \\ hilethfi m-prTUOUtiTedi, rains
^ lashed in sheets itgains! Brunelfesuchi's muiiniht ent
ribbed dome war ihecatbvijr.d an arehilectdm) mast4sr
work of the Renai^i'iiice. Il (KKlitriiNd the I i tn i
I h r copv nf
Mkhdanggio's "David" then stands bejort the lowered
PftlaxEO Vbcrhiop hr&nan in and stilt (he seat mFlorence^ city j.m rninnn': ipajtf -i
Thu 1 rn,an -il rt1 Lirn d i ^ out marble plaque-* that m urdi-d
wim thr c[t\ had brgtitEeo—the hidi-watur marks uJ
past cahmiJLiL1 ^ die disastri^i.-i Bond ul Nuvemhrr 4
(below), which Hrtisbd intu ".be my with su<Ji tun
that it filled id l Harericr"; the IfifTibli flood of ScpTesn ber
tli fSS?| and ihal ofNovember ,i. 1 841, imrfccd indny h\
memorial tablet* ai height- up in 7 feet Xmv, cm Novem-ber 4
t tbi- ivmrry \mo fuse ^ never Mote( I hr milky lipht ul dawn seeped iritu ,l bbi< I. ni^fil.
ttse river trgan to pour uni becked intci thet
’i'iifcr distficb
ni (kivirmnii Eind Hun Fred nines on rht south bank Exl-liidinu through the Vh btduws of crllarhome?-, WTcnchinsr
aivay doors plundering I he -mrdl mairrial -Ltvteub rii
lift times, the waler-F here took the aged'— n ft vltli old
rTutn, a hustniful and wife of 7+ and 5-, a man of SI whuvieldcd without u sttniijEHe.
\l ja m, electnc clocks stopped nN nvei the »’ity
At that momfifii, die mo^s i t-rl> of the seven bridges,
Siin Nlccolo, %vii> tj-fiiag swallovvetj and the full iurv o|
die flood iva.% upon Flotemr-
Tbe breakneck title cfaeWvdM a\ the embajikmeht^ >k(
the -iirei-itH t idled Lunpima— Along iht \rtao—thui par
.il I el rbe river It swept up aLitomobiic^ aisd hurled (hem
.igaima lamp pir^i- imi >trevE dgn- ((.Kigcs lure uul
oiiiTi?[i walls, and lu'uan iu li.dlNr tlu- PurdL Vn'i hii*
with Ire us, oil drums, and uLher debris ft also be^an h*
flush from hundred- i^f drawmniz bdavmcn^ Mu ihiik
black ritifta— i nel oil— of n:enLral healing sy.-LLem^
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bewail E'.i swamp classical Florunct! H but it
thick stune of liquid rmid inMmii: black m i rs
os ail, care asses of aniimvU. and the filing
crmumi > of -oiniju situ] sewers. ib» very m.tin.T
i U liaMv1
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Where small piazzas ujjen jJuulz ihe north
orn hank, the river poured in as 40 miles ;m
hour At the Pi CavaUep^en.ii ftmptud
;i wide brown waterl'nll spiNin^ ions of mud.istri debris difectK mio the bn&ejnciii alack**
oi uni'*"! Kurii|K - riVheM libraries, the Bltdib-
:ei .l Central e JfuldouL pope tl)
Equivalent Li i -mr LIbran > >r t nrmnw-., \br
Nhrno link is 11 aJ y'< la rnt si lih ru ry conta irian
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inoTc than Lhree imlhnn volume 1 He mile*!
nf shelving in the path «if the nwr held several
ImpomnUt'lkc tkms—ihv piori uuMldeihaa*
bequeathed by Miy^Lubeehi in I7L4 and the
P. 1 1 ; si i n 11 collccLion donate 1 in T 7 7 1 The
slacks aJ.Mi held hujidrcri* 1 it tin 1 j - llls
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bound newspapers and journals—.one of the
prime -miriir^ fur modem Italian history In
all. more them a million said a halt volumes
disappeared under ihc tide Cpa^e IB l
A few JTiinLiU,L walk downstream. Ur
Mima Lu[*ll Kj^IunI Uonrllh the fitirai tm-, holftf who directs I In I n -1 itulc am I Museumof the History uf Beatrice, was sleeping in iL*
grpund - floor iparUro.1ntiL
M;. 1 1 1.1 - 1 1 lei q 1 1 was in lirji/il 'she told iur
"so 1 worked \nhi and stayed in the .ipnrtmuni
Ju n: [ heard 4 midiio^ sound, md wlurn s
upeneri my e>'tL5 water already 1 ad reached
m\ liL'il \V hrh I opened lids windowshe h aid her hand level with she ailh ’’the
rivrr was here"
Appalled .shu begoji to* arry upstair- ivhdt
dir could ml' ihe nUfvutnV irreplaceable 'o|-
Section:—ur i iziMid jn.4rijmeiifSl used by fouml-
lts of modern diemlstn , jnedkine* and|ih\-H> Bill 1 lie waters minmled until ihe>
swirled waist deep an thr ground floor; s-ic k -.il teuti
she had ia LLlujulnn Mite of Edison's firsl plinm^ruiil i
BramhiLla p
* surirksi I insi runic ills of ivory, ssoEd* and
ebony; tb^trn Ltfipaldu rh LorojnaV luborutiu^' betuch
of chemicals-,
Carrying what she rnuld, d» mock precarious
lri
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- .Llnrm a third story ledge between thi: museumand Lhv L’ltizi. Thu* ?hr nt.ma^pd to save some $$
4nud I cr t reiisu re% Lneluf i 1 ii£ scyi:ml nr I iah let '
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("nice, had no idea ljI irnpru'luu' disaster until
he ifcpfrtMl from his church into tbe tain. A tor-
rcn-l wat pouring into the piazza before him and rising
atound rhe bast1 of Du riles 'Uilut:j
i-ij^e 2 f)K cars were
,j I ready nw.^h in a ietld mis? of nuid and ml,
I ml- vUhi church behind him had been funding
vijiee the late iMh century- Its tomb* held the bones
uf such faiTiMJft men as Michtliingeio Murhuivelh,
( riLhleu, 1 be composer Rtisriid, and a bust oi other-
Here in t.li-c c lmn;h md it- museum can be found
1 hr tffflfbffjpg? at Renaissance art Ui'.iliby Fluren*
ffnff hirerE artist* to clarify the bugr w alls and tivel
ihe ' l.i i l|if I ' with illustrations tif the life of Christ and
lb ui. ot st Francis \monv tin: OrPt was Cmiahut.1
.
whose1!
< ru< i fix /' painted ubuui l^i, held a special
;
1 1 Lite one i hi iht: masterpieces mark in pc ihetransitJ'm
from Byzantine 1o RenaU^ittce nrl Hb pupil ' *ioUn,
i hr hr-i master of Rr jialssano. reaJbm, adorned Santa
Croce chapels with frescoes that s&mtift as models for
the yuuntE Mu Man wee] n and other giants )^t: unborn-
U onibiirded b> nprofited tire ^ hiirili ri l
at .10 tu JO uiilea a a hour, ibe 6WO-^\nr-
nlii i:-m
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hmtjS! sl> hhuiurd upSiUrnin fuL'r
I.jijjs and wns hast of a bridge tipnvrr
-h.iu L it U the jewelry shops that iw?i oVc
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rhi1 ari tip In the j$lh ertttutjv tlmndI s.ikr t ‘
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i;= i m ii | irrdi-rt-H I KaI jeWelfits -mi:
LiLfl LihTtsat ! i replace but. Ihtm hen occupy -
i n el ihc d u( s cr i>f bui i ding» H \z Ii rtl^ccl h i-
Pltll PnbLt to I hr UffiiJ with the cQirered
iidJIers th^t mm atop the %hops The
ftsaned hfiiEtir 1 up n« rvet> rtuwi
fincc- an oarilcr Ifillftukfrd to thr
TH,mr«urini^ Arno in UJJ
RallvEis^ Mil- downhi-airled M.syw
I’hTu UarroJhnL roiumnlci rt womisin laktecp
i*m. 11 U l ifis lit-> for ±n eWjtc rn v w a5 c i
niiioxL The heroic rifMv:ir-oM jn . hiaii‘-
nan rrfAEnrfi hi> rtimed city mrindi,
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Mil' Ariulnmy ttf Flnr Art* [fold—
on i.pa ar i 1 1 \n un fi n i$h rti work
by Un; -artur JtiiliiKt ^ u] gits ;»r kruj
jjamUT ih«]W; at far n^liL
It not vlI ' nj when the Arno raped through [he
lunfr. nf tin: ctarrh cmcL hipped agunurt, list altar* hehirr
ihe tombs of Alii hdaiigrlu imr| (lalllciT, The two cloi*-
1 nr hcsidt the- r_:h tire h filled w : l Si 15 : tfet 1
1
L mmld> w .it er.
In I lie adjacent museum, L'Jtnxdjyf'i "CracrfLx" wasbuttered—and! Sinnlly eniiulfed —bv iht hLu'k tide I beoily *urLm ruse oyer TaUdro (tadtfT- ""Last Supper”tpsljpc 4 1 Smashing through into other mom*. -nl ihe
museum, liii: fioodmVnpIpuwl paintings by Rrtuiiiuo*
Sal viati, and Vasari. Then It hatvd like .i w Mil mu untain
lorreni [Imiugh medieval streets toward tfufc
1 ffm,
T O TIIK MILLION PIU.RLMS who Him. k to
Florence c^ch yearAtie Ufftei h flagm piling queenof Rena] s? l> till art u jJJrrie*. I Isl- ui-ivoivi 1 building
was built fiy Uiorpiu Vasari between 1 560 and 1 5 74 fur
the Medici tJraud I hike of Tun: arty to bouse eorvem-
men i offices r hence, tijfizi}. Today one Pi i hr ivory's
tines l and larfuJal rohtiJinEi^ uF art fil]> a -pierm In!
7 ell inn nf marble hallway,- and m^iri-
I'tir 40i yeans the Slate Archives h as In i>j
L
hot i
little uncomf ortaiily m rt« cm dr. actus. in tower floor! ur
She pa I Jen Jls collections include invaluable paper- of
the Mtrtliti Lutulv ,-inri ihr Klnrentim? jqvenmnts,republican and rlutal during mmir dl irMnkffidS must
exdtitig and formative centime.!
The l ft)A :» rliir terminus ui one uf l he di^tuicliw
I i.indm lit k s ot F' lot e nce I ti n t y pit id pe*lure 11 f gramie u r
.
Li rand Duke ( ibium I eompnbsiiuusd ariLt and archi-
tect Va^&ri—his /aws af iht Artists proved him aka nn
nu-.i.u litogNipI.er—hi build an cnfcha&ed gidlery runningfrom the sprawling Pilii Palate, un a height south u-i the
AmuipaM the Church of Safttn Kclir.it a. over the jrwfl
er^“ shot* i m the Ponte Veccfiio, ulutig the Amu. anil
into ihe I ffizl b> means of i regal atone stanraie Onthe olhbr -nil- of the meat offuie building. a dune arch-
way high ovrf Via della Ninna cpumjcleri with the
Puft£ib Vmrdiio Thus the Duke could ^imll frntrt hnmeto work without potting wot doldout. pog^s 1 l-inOn November 4, that pan --i Vasari's galSen nearest
the Uffm whs lined with a cuM^cti'm of$dCportndts by>ome of the »rl 1
1
’s moat noLtitl art i sis—Ruph acl, Titutrn
Rubrnh. and Corcit amon^ themNatural] v . 1
1
h i si t gUi oft h u n ^ fa rst
'
Di Lu t.-a I ftSt I l?b -
ruen, Director uf the UffizL U^lI me J
Tf thu Tome
Uvjrye iblm die wart" cried *i «i mjw-iw Kiortraint^
t 11 fvc> i-d tie viLitjUoji l: k c’ 1! h .a I '41 |i; sn i m4 '
IjOffllipfJ \'tn i tnuihui .i -m-ol iif artisirL'- near Pellstjeh
Beecadu In in cxecpiii'iuil <Ib-pJav nf v\ • *i . n
c
l- r heHimkS -Tirrctl .j tupluSTvi? krp\v ^ 4nnd fhcjnlrahi hnc hlnarod apsws wp.irch^gsci. dimi.L_r
! I k>ob.ind tbaiertaL id :.KNl wnrk=Jiti»|Y- ihai iarri onRcnAjmntc LTjifbJimr*hip isi Imrihi . wntid.
=tmw -Anti prrrsous nii'iiiSfS
An -si i Sic | Uf > Jv llJ tf f uf thr Fla^jji Mrritfina ^pfciuti
W'bat In CJill iiiJv.igfi ti) dry in I J it -!3Ei In nb\ j, * si f.,tX.k i
MCiail fBiiTk hktEit^ whp jru^crnd all hut u huuditt]
life riuiv Uni'k In |iijn,inev*
s y— —
- ^3ik *
r* *^J•ti
STL , * gp
VecchJG went and vve wens ,iN ^jit r 3 lli r ii
u'mdd it Would ie*ir ihu ^itHeiy mu! with it
VlL-rU-d In tin ualtiTy'- w-iErtimcn around7 .j.m., Dr Becherucci ctiSle-rL Phdtov i’go
! 'rucai. i j' T hv d i-t i 1
1
j.ue - ri«1 ^ Uj icrin E e rodent
it \~mi' \ ri for Flopc-ric:e uml nt-igtiboririi: re-
gion* fcft ttrm Warred Ihr tfmherm Bdclipi;
^ir^ctiir cii kt-'ii oration - The fmirt h memberii the - i*?t appeared :n the nu uii- figure id
[Jr. Mjulzmio FoGsi* an official of the Su pirri j i
tandtney of McmiETncnis, who hod tried u>
uni oqnafi to the Pitti Palace. found (he Pontt^ l'i i Inin ’-lih kid off
ran ft rinched .ihrarf n| rhr
water* to tin- l rtlki,
Uoct its BecIMti wd Fteil mm It- .l * l.tr-
ing foraj in Vasari > gailkry, ttnivinu; a liultr
alrt'r £i ,1 m While ft swollen river cunnop sided
Lhe iV«Ntc Vecrhin With oil dm mu. and Em- b
and s oiled wjldh around thr art lire behiw
them ipugcs IS-l^h ihe scholars and a few,
»'!>l I'i'H Cl "Ikd ruo frC#C LKU1H tin i-ii Hi|gfi4 --h ii l
Sudden treasury of liMriLin^. \ hr Xarinnat Library
re>iirmri> from a hugcfrwtft l*>mb ttl' mud Lhturijirvd*
of vcslijfrifrs liiinnc from ci far buck u Reniiiutimvc
time'. SaWdu-t ^i|p uj* Elic water .ms l covers
(hr Elfsnr Mi’ tha niniJI liiljhy The Arm i tpjlled bdOhkrsin mil.Lv. nf shrlvn*. A- I hc waters fubsided. slmk-mvoUrntwr* d> Jrniwi rus inu^k - became *»J" Hie Attmh t\l
fteWJIstP i1 - ill dhlrtlegfMlitjf Li
airl Jilt hip \\nv;~ ami haulci
!
I he vnEilincp [O ihr fi r-E flnnr Snieffred with mml. .3
dt\ iteniiy ;iirir- n b«sk lu u mtc i that Wilt Lain il lu
a restqf. ii ion itmcr More rhmi a mcEJinti niid a Imlf
volume- in thij. library werr iLirniL^rE, Ehi- ( ivta I for
the uty esended two milium
24
ciistocJiirini iMiia^cd ta earn tiu 1 uUvat
twenty of the paintings,
^1 mude tlitm stop” Dr Birhcntfri said
I fearttti fur their lives I did not think tvt*
would go back. 1’
Meanwhile, Dr. BaldinL btnviinfi waters
streaming into Lhi1 I ffe life way to the
reMoranon rooms. There LUO pintid^K—h>
Simony M.na- ci-o. t- til FjHppti Lippfc ami
other ma.*ittrv- were imperiled With the Mp
oi |Jc hossi and suyiml i ijiLi"kans I ?r
Bit I din i began moving like painting som-
I ]UKl-, upstairs. Larking a kr>. Ml 1 bad to break
down 1
1
htiivi door reach the hist of iht.m
lei the -ame building, but iirarut to the
riven tJii.- 40 mt?nt rooms of the Sliiie
Archives whose four miirs of shelving held
1IIJWXI ml kilties—Wcfc lillrng with black mm I
When Superintti tide tit rrcniaud; aniveij,
titer a tortuous trip t hmugli streaming - re* • t -.
1 Ji4F\li
1
In1 wen t to save 1 hv rest at E he [-portrait
r "I lection in the aaJhry
Hr- wtt$ Kune1 before we km-w ic.” [ ir. Fossi
foiled * BuMiiii md I chaser l him, hut he
hud tv inn* on his tet^L, V\r
e cmildn’E caith himllJilil ^ hod readied itu- stone rijfcp* Wu tried
stfi|'i him, but he bmfcr out of our itrip,
furious at lls a rail shout nip that he ivai of ageand we had ybung i htlrJren., Finally we jiJJ
Wen! with him down tli^ sturs'
1 hr l hire men bceaii to Uikv the paintingJM1L carrying Ihc small ear hiwm and skidding
tte larger ones across the polished rile floor'1 he Inpg gliHjmy hall was trembling andgPOrttiiriB it- the furious water* pounded thertrthe^ hchttulh it
'Tn.-k .u'l'i," halted Dr IhrirTini, "rja t mrecall Yiisari^ complaint 4fXhj»vsaeii whenhe built this Kullery?
14
"Vn happily I dn,” replied Dr. ttatotiuod, "Hereitrcitcd that the Grand Duke's impatiencefarced him m use inferior matenub
"
Bald ini und Kos-i worked ibeir way farther
and farther down the imUlty OcfuskiEkbllb
they would part iht pale curtains tin the ^modl
wi nrlows and Ipok du? The> watched the
Arno sciPtip a hiindluJ of automobiles out oi a
small pftuza iu nrs& the river anil hurl I hem,bdftre they could rink, mrrinM I he battered
Ponte Vecch it i. “I’he fame d )r. Wcl rv ^hu ps sh
u
t
lernt like match tii^es. Kacb time the rivrrr
smashed ;l heavy nil drum or automobile ur
itvtr ii^jjiii ei sf tlu1 liridgc4 it harrowing Iwomw ui ft| th under tJown tlu shglunj^ > utruk.
Dr. Mdlnl found ^onto jimdl i utteulaliuci.
hr told mr. m 4 dtrtiifn of quiet invective
against MJth- r enlurv piiinler? who insist I
upon fulli-r-Lrnglh portrait ihun tht Kenak-
msuu'c headUto-waist style. milking I heir works
i ivk l oi itifF'n nil to muvrDr. Bticherticd and a few custodian*
wnii&d ll*: ihm end of the corridor imri [rsins-
fcrted l for portraits in i hf- -/lti ty of the steps
Shurth .Liter |n j_ro die last of the pAintin^
tiinu- m\$ whitt he thought aUiMii
1.it l1e .'-.ivine so many priceless ’Works of tvrl.
Dr. Baldini to Id me with « raraiitnl smile:iJMy tuimniobaJe
'
[oitiiite cari" attend* the book rpstur.it ion
I Ll: SefLJ. \i Fort flrivtijer* > RfhuKs mrefaftrcis . Irion teer* fYrrm Uuini cOLLOlrie-
pain^tfikisidy -f1
1 ;i rzfcf.tr hkeJoti* fn«m ms-
urrtc ibhtn of diet? leather bindings.
l.ltPTttry Ijiimdry I l_lj] lv in I hr hi-aLmL:
plant -ii th* f iilmad terminal. 1 1 err, pages
tiR washed and preyed lui ipdesceiswatcr!
ihr-n hunfi up to dry I• »j" rciyr E-u ^ix hmirs_
Music from pa«t T rrudetd crom
]"liireriei‘ fdb a kul [way -ii the ^ sth'd-n Re—loration liiAiitLi.Lt- Li i Rome. Uom Marta
I'inru'ii, ihf Barer lor. rx.LJTimtr- Mlh- and
rh^ir l^iukr-imm th-t cathedral
CuDStorit i.luintifLL' uF ahsorbcpil pfe^vr
placed helWOCn poi't1
: drir-- the puriftmcni*
27
National Geographic, July, r)h
Indeed, che Imo^i-iI Vj'uh wa- . humansu'httles fcn a terrible brew 4 - ii r.-r^-il
ihrouizh iht heart of Hon-nnv along Via df( '.^U’ISujlI md Via dr Lrrmi—-tv hen- real
lions were u lnr krpt as symbol? uf the city—
und around [fee Bflrpellu.
T HK 11AfU ;KM .r H± lo KutptUfC wh-At
rhu fcffeei lb to iifunlin?. Since ISfiS Lhe
JOft-yirar-Ald buitdmj: 'fuLdoit?, page ' Uhas housed one of earih'b finest collections of
sculpture—mehiding netted w orb* by Micteb
angelo and Donatello,.
MktelaDgelp^ statues disappeared under
r feet of nily water, terra cor.tas by Xicrntb
Tri hoi n and Vitlcfiti £0 1 *ant i |n|>| -h I ;md fell
;
.1 i.n.n^ by Pierian i la VVn t whirled avtey
and v, as broken The water- ml led on luward
the Piarifl dftl Diiumiu. W]tA^§^ thut liain
w itJi awe a square sloshing with :l few* inches
of water fine mimue ami % -lupniikiLk ivurl
pi ml T he 1
1
b" Sl I
Here tLstnd thi three stnicttirB that mewl
dtftii Identify Ifltencc: the ck ujiouai Raptte-
if r> . thf great cathedral dedicrued to St. MarytjT lhe flower, ami l MoiToVpncefLil Iwll tower
(pages i, h 7, iir.d fnliiouh page ID BruJteb
Ir-chr'- soaring flume, mm- the lament in ill
>lie riiLcud her lilf in - lvc ti.dlk'Li [He-i L^'
,M;ina Lvfea kjphinl kt- n <-l 11 ,
! iirt,j U i r it shr 1
1
l-:i i i i is l-
and Museum olfthe Hi-iurt «ii" Science, briiwiL rapidly
miiunlirsfci «vkf| fa me Hi! ilir l rcirnEi.li hrre
with on Arabian eLesltrtl aria ii h- « -1 lhe 11th ivaiUcr-
Linfl ii CkJiliLcft iBluscnjfc Li?tL' framed In ivc»ry.
Slimy (juj^ihife clrriiUn-ck ;a l
Utfttte H i lilt -ji> iiHlb- -iptIWf aif I hr
i I mn 1 1 of Simla Croce Impounded by
Florence Ri^es From i.he Flood 29
1 Ur t-ttiifimn i~ row nr- ihe cal bedrid ihflt ..lII
l-kirem alls huofrui, Irom l ist" Latin domtj.i,
hniLw "I'ti Mir ikvtffclt 1 1 ^lixu l
.
tb± word has ;t
preial Wmanin^ "Hete of Gail"
Oti three ot' its ti|zh1 swtes I hr Baptistery
wears f'j tm f>u ^ 1 1
1
r hm without question Eh
t
rrurst lumou* jind beautiful door? anywhere
afifi those iM the ua^t side Whenl.iiMin/.o Ghiberti finished ihum in l-l-S; ofti r
2 7 yriir? of labor, Florence *taod sn awe.Ylii'lirliuiituki- in later yean? ^Uksrled llnH
thev wv re worthv to In- im 1J Junr* of I'aradl-t
W*,
1
§!
—rind s-n ikv have been 1 -i.il ltd ever since
The Hi brunet panel'-. depicting sCEnt* from
the Old Tesi ament, seem painted in molten
rnrluL mi\uTltel i.^ tlifwr rlut-iil .tin L pet i+ptctlve*
Ah die three torrents spilled. into the ptexA,
the thunder ami vil.i-mtioh i null I lie ili'-m! .utdi
felt blocks -iw^iy ^ntueUnif jttfr IQ llul the
hlack-cr^l^J tide crawled up she boors of
Paradise and began poundinn against
\ h t.
1 ’tone Jan 1 1 I i : v I. i-.iutifu
1|
lanel* loosened*
first i ii jr
,
i cn *11 another Final h five plung'd
inti i 1
1
1 l‘ iivirlEug nnu k. Iml a prater Live iialc
kept tltm frpjrt being swept away Ipliscs 3f*-
T Ir'nide, Dnna?tltor
5 woodm Mi^tSulrne
sf ond hip-deep in water
Mrraku^ Lihl^i Mil- ralkirdi .iL 1 hr \rn« nKie
buili I i r.u: - . lvuicfs here ranc lo a depth of Jr i in' dccpetl mtindul hm hi the city Mkbcl-
ilipchi. white working in Gtmrrr iri frfntL ;u ncpht-W jEioUL hiayitte a hmiht- mf-slr
Simla i'
met? and ramioTtcd that evtrf} year llipn? the t eElan. fluod.'
UtM HIMHfc | + <liUICVi PTlHUHI. gV >L Tt -U1 IIJ I 110 PI. t *-liM *-‘il ! hi i Ml -1 . H, m I
m
TfT' 1
11
1
1 Hi
5
y ‘.f.J:
To jive ieei in ihe navfr. niadt a sb entered raft ill 2\v,'
movable pcw$, fell ujjfm (iinvanni BalrLurri'sJlLast
Siipjier,15
and yrrerkiri rhc pitvetiwuli of both wurisrit*
Hum the Dunum nlosi loud* Li ^ikr tine* \ in dci Setdtrj ihe qttfijt piaziu bordered on the north by Saatissirrsii
\ ndttms sal i l,i he Flcffidtinos* own favori tc c h u r h, Heft
,
a fejfrnd ^ys. in angel painted the fare nf a Madonnawhite the utist Bari ol« m m'j dept Hen? brides still nmit-
i" leave ihdr w^MLng bouquets And here, .ilsu -l-nvri
Via 4 k-i ^ervi* iiu? \nm came.
]| swept mtu the square ui MJ: \ 5 a.m. and turned II;-
cataract irtin the cellars of the AtxbdtJuKital Musrimn,
housing a collection of F.truscaD aridaris second mil} tn
That of l he Villa tiiuliji in H-nme Under intense pursuit?,
the Asms exiiludrd filthy tpyserv Into the Etruscan tot-
lection Ivodns .met limn/i^ r&iiurd Srnrii the hh&liefetf
c-ises \'ase? wpenH incited into [lie -arcuijLjiiiu
instil ik'd, Treu surer. captured from Sime and I he earth
resumed to a primeval riLtne.
T HftOl GH [ H ‘T WEALTHY PLORENCE 1 3it
Arm? w lis ^muddm: imtsun? Jufltrr ircrt^tfrfr In the
llnrrii: Mn^um near Siiotit Crocs, a di»linjtusjtlied
collection of paintini^;. sculpture lurnkurt aod books
front the ?4rh lo ihe I sih reaUirio was dttxw^ed to 14
ft el of water Across the river, musical irkstrumf nLs oi ihe
Bardini Mu-rtumV famed srslltt lion fem the 16th Eu ihe
]$tti centuries wcel- ibriEUt^raimu into mud-coaled
fra lament- ipuge 41} Tn the Slroiraf Palace ifuli.kmi, page
1 1), 1$Q$QQ book# of I'lorthftrY tmowntd pub hr library,
t lie 1 1 abi e if: Ito V seusa i li x, we re i ngu I fed
_
Around 1 1a? a rn it terrific expliuthm I'mm he mica I
iviirthuu:-.! 1 - rocked the PJajubi Btccaria (pages zj-j ai -l
Fotdonl, page J JT, and a column uf -mi ike billowed fain
M\ the f ii 1 1 . All over she « ei> the horm of cars— -hurt
In a nicu with ri>Lr:m water, ichtirlar* atitl i o,h I c
«
lJi li n u fsrk jY^yrUhL in
wscur im rr ikwi i painringa nn ihr nmirnd floor of (hr rftjri H flne of 11 it-
M-nrWi fim-if ftteri^W pilterl'e* In ihk rt-trcatloh I>^ Oi;uV,MaYMK >LifT
i ll ! V\'ii
M
liioinJ. I' i-. •• *
!' :» F'm.u ri tifuprn Hi-.-. !rflt .! Kirn
\n for Ltue Flnn'nct rri'ion— an ] H±h-rt nji_iry jmrlrsiJl az the ]>m*F Vl(
!i>rio A lorn in Hr (TnflH'ctO Huh Jim, Dirtttor of Re^ktratiqin
ft lance canvas In f.Senwd van HonihorM. a I fth^jatuiy Dutch polluter
To pun quirk entry in this. locked s-toraui? room, jatvor* broke tin- windowbehind Lit I'itoi :il ci t I hen ic'Tr Jiwui ttir Jrfvlriim LliU I the metal unlit: in
ren i: ne i r »,1 i m u> t njKerrttM I fo r [ ht m cji Y sulci y 4 Dr. Lulu Bedienccd.. Ihe
S fftn , L’Hncrlor, it-ilc’hf^ frnir% 4 ttainriu'.
'J l wjah day of iyrr4iti'A4:rtJPTiwn't#ii i.'i "shilnr^tJon,
Hiri
Bathl?v. BEfn herucdL
"Wc worked inio the niuht, nnct when it w.i ouvr we =ai down ejthuu.niijd,
:md the real meaning; of Ihr Inss 3.Wept tuvrr 115.1
Respond m|Et to ihe illdi, >[iKlehU tcmovi\iLirnCjn.pi nzn tin ( In.i I ;
1 1
r> M
j
|- un r-ivab mud inim iln- doorway An irmv i»f «i 3 1
-
ih^plt frcijn n iF». ij «.tl Mill hi*.’ 1- !:' Europe omi ihr Vmrrkas pitched Iru illup\Hnft nutaboctk* fur bools and 'Inn el* Many ludntlinu from ihr I nurdStall".—Wert Lit Fjonfnft \*t UmJy Months- alter ih« fiijotl, 1 1 on
around khe wo Hit Mill wurkeil witln u \mv In rhf* mud from cellofs uf ihr
papain n\t nutty—thy liirFr people—who nirk njutwrf ihc henrJ«iriur!« '1r|ur
tufirtk’ i j 1 r their wurk I « il h iinil Itrek^' ittinj ikeri-
Jl
} (utpituF | lu Art fill! Lhi: Linn main. ,i svinlrr
“bd i cr fur knmn inres al i be Pitti I'uinee
•stidouri- Th loteUaLI paint blbirring mM chap-
ping Ha tbe woedcti piuirb begun Ili dry iiiri
contract. VpjjrkfiHTin rushed tn convert rhe
l.jnsujj JiLi1.mMAlljrur iiiMa I. i tin i, ,irn I htmiMifief
Ar| w-rnl, I\t ivn ibduw . ri_:hll nh/«nd wills
jupnncse mull jerry fia^xrr lei pn'VHii rhe point
from flaking, Technician* j p>ra> ftygjttitt* an-ujlibiutir, iu wirest the fismwtb uf mold
ci nr u i Led I iv w ns er— 1 0 ;in:d ll fnou rn fu] musu
1 11
1
’£ Il^c >icady di n jmri T hn me sfci * n g tif pow-erful current forniert n dreadful sound
HWorse i Ei lib the war! Worse I ban die wai-,h
Adfiisd fHs u|j|i-. - Limbering into irfi|Kir vriirn -
tmd unto Kjoftopg, lound hu cumpmjHm for
the tragedy itml wns overwliv'mirig Firenze
BdE=i_ Im 1 1 if i hi} - lo co nit then woukl U !;m»it terrible Jimjiv i ll the r-rnnis a fftoflic rio/o-
rwifl cahilnEmijijg the divider of Hu rentmeilmrches. SantAmhlt^tn
P ll feet of wnicr;
\pjgui>li and Fatigue mink tile I ire nf I 'r
Urrhmirn a* ifce Hirify? | iui-nt leiiih ailing ihr
i und :' »..! •i* i-afErn rd die 3 i7iz|. > >nam.il i
trti
mute' of Umr nerded iis festcre mhii-c art work*have dropped (h 1 1 1 1 ,
' i year-* c ih iw*p or three;
J2 other tftpnfurci ttifly prove IjeyoprJ Pe!|relr
iT iM U
JA P "
Stm JacopoAope’Amb h > ihiiTpiifte drotviicd,
Santu Morin MtuHInlcnn del Pazd. Heavy oil
Li 1
1
Id s f«rl; ^nn Miccotg 50 pr1
Arno, In |ecij
O^ni^aiili . *
Nil ON* C \S RECALL with any pi*^
ctainn w 1
1
h'
]
i the format day ended, for
m^hi eajnc early* fuvirm auto the dark-
ness ci I Jiflemoim. The waters remained* ji
mtlcMi lake over all e I as? ten i Florence In the
I tlkil A huiklLitk i h llj li Itftd aU^t foiTipMrd I hr
lu^i u\ ihr three rr^uic tabors, -iiving ibr
(Miiktk nu,.v Irom n ^loritge -iWi i
j
(gain ting,
to 'll In Mint.ii Marin \uvdLi. the «ru;it
I itiniiuinin tbnrrh, the flood's worst nat .ntuju-
imuki'ii t*
i
-i Hh>
,
> irf-srnc^ in ihe refectory,
t ho$c in the Strozzl Oua|ht], and LhrpDWfcrful
fntscoe* of the Spiritsh Chapel * \ mgr .i s i
The mo umine nf ivil$irws, tty of diHtiriii.
itnd Wfdtlngnf cajl£ adiiu-d to tilt night’s terroi
Isolated* Without light nr Kent Ipli'i ihnm'-.
4 stricken diy waited for dawn Ji J
A JET.
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IrniLirifes .igo, Bernardo £ i.'rmini n aold
h rTkiLti „ had coined al i » a|dimst,'
nikil a rilin' fit—Nothing Is beyond
the ppwere ‘if (he Fkrctitinei " On itse morn-ing of Nomember A. rihh,;^ i h t
-people wan
dtirw I Unhdievifip fttim i heir done - and looked
ufwn the ruin, ii appeared th a I rh Ls time
Ceiininl might hr proven
A fUdtlvrit^iij artisan. it gunsmith whospecialized in sptiqutB, groped thrv^Ligh the
WreckAge -i] his reilm wnfk&hop.rl Nothing toft," be **W i,^1 carried off—
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n Ub Li:-.smi - uf | int 1 - r fillet ted iur VO
yeilrs patterns, everything''
11 is story was being re pc utcdm every street
Six thcijtewid shop- where mere h ants
played Florence** famed specialde> in gold
and IralhiT, wmji and w-iod, were wrecked.
Eveiywbett tfe lamfjiti “All my father^
Lifetime,. and now mine, bob, washed away."
MAVnk PLKRO HAKGkLUNL P,rc
historum turned puttin' servant, had* peril lhe lung night nl November 4
rnurnoned in hi* tiffin offering whftl hsjfipU
Mity he could to an assortment of castaway?
that. included a newly married couple and an
escaped convict As morning came, he went
out into 1 hr streets— and for days afterward
lie became- the *\ s i l>
i>
>i a city resolved i
heal itself (page w\ He wojiftered, .t-; did
others, Vi hvre t he hand* would be found to
clia out the bur Led boots, dean I be churt lies,
m u r j isle r to t h e pau n [ in gs„ excavate i Fse rct-k i J ig
cellar^ restore Fhc sliojw
Hx sunu- miracle or communication tliose
htanrirf^ iippeansel I hi the clay iiftrr the UnotJ,
I he fttlt troop of whM became an army of slu-
detib jepp&ttrcd on the streets, of Florence.
Patrick Maathiesen, a '.^-year^td gradual e
student at the Ihriversri of Lracittn* sym-
1 1 1
1
luted i hi- -1
1
1 ri i of ftie>c vol > i nteci 1 - H earing
of the food on his radio* he dropped evety-
thitijt, obtained li Land Rover from his
broth t r-in- law' * farm, ferried the Channel,
and raced off to Italy, rowing a pump* Thepump weld to work ini he l
Tfbz:i.rand Patrick 'j
truck became tbe ambuhrnce in whkh Dona-tella
1
^ crippled “Majpdaltnr" wa^Cftrri&tl fromtlit HupUitpiy to the Liffijt Gallery
GhibertiA Door^ of l\LradLse Were hauled oft
in a curt Un Uler n^tumuon.I 'hone calls from I'mf^ur Strrpki Ca-
inurMii, Direclor of the Slant An taves., juid
PmEeisor Minn Crcgo-n ol tht1 1. 'mvcrstl y ««]
f lorenc^ turned out si b#l ELfclion of ymmic menand women frnm Anacricau umvr-rsiij^s whowen1 than ntud>ing In Florence i"he> ypined
ajuntlftfcsuther.s m .i human « bsitilhai m. nopedlu, 1X10 volu unrs frym the mu rk < i f tlir Arr I l j
At the XaiionuJ Library hundreds of £Lu-
iteULi, many wearing ^ mask* against lFic
*tench of iewaee vinti decaying leadier, hi-
borpd for three wrfti to rrrnver trmre than
a million dirt^ wet vulLinirs tpage.s 24-5 f
( tad an ( 'hurchillinfi coverall and rubber
bocite. I ii reel nr Emanuclc Casanmisima of
ih*t XatiEirm! Libr^rv pruv^rJ Niriscif a su-
in' rF field genemi in the o|n-ml i * in In re&tm-
Florence^ flhmrie*' He did nut home for at
least a month. He proptisifiril i ri. i nc the sragtry
stack? in the sLiiu-owocd t^ibaccn hmnb of
Fuseany He also pressed brick kilu^i andtmitllc plants iritn emerffcncy service.
Trucks i m loan fnsfn she [rjtiart and I S
Armi^Jrtftik'J byiht voltinteers + curried their
unu Lt.il hirgi>i'- in industrikd sites In Pram,PcruffiiL and as Jur j \\ i\y sis Wome tpugc 21).
While then heerful blue-yearifd aa>d li^ird
unny nf -tu dents- Was lacing nuibhutd ik*cA>
the network n| worl-r] .Mrhnhtrsfiip crucklecl
wiih 3 [stress 4gpalh Iin Myrun ( i i im i re
.
I hen din'i i nr ui I Fn llan.rLLrd study center 41
the fiuiiou^ Herruird Bcren^citi viElaAT Tatti.11
became u focus ni United Staler -ud
F m the United States itselfP leading historians
of art iind Kl'lillI:- -iiiu i' 4.chi iliir *- -iui'Iul- f tut i
s -
Loim1 iind Fred LidiU both of Bruivn L ini
ver^ity, Frederick Hortt of tin 1 Onivcrfifly of
t^nnsvboniHi .md others quacktv formed the
1 mnmiltee (o Rescue ti Lilian \n i l iua). Bymid November this effort had raided enoughto send ihi fir3E [ilaneload' nt' ^-cienEJib \utd
iint'-aeb. l nn*ervntomfheath d by Luwrince
Mau-wski of New Vork limvet&ityr lu Fluf-
ence. (Among thejn was dxjcurtUrnts (X]>crt
I bircjlil TribuEet of K R DpnneUe^1 & Sons
rmrsfumy, printers of the Geographic J
To Dr lpmdfi Emilia Pet iirvlEd bf the Aidie-
nlogtrui Mur-eum, ibr di^AstL-r bad .a painfully
Shim lo o I fjileimi rjmiH j of S-e. John thr Bupttst in I he NaiinmiE Muaeum ol i In
BarpcUn A |j'.MqlCLi >. ip! benrene ,inri lewder drawv ttkoj^uti* £tnd oil front t.ht p^mu-i E(fih! Water m.-e 1 ft
iel high in the IAul'pII-i-1
: i shiiiidoEi r
*
h - jti o: MJi hdangclo ^:ulp
u r ^‘ ’I 'hi-. Ion rrcrivrd Hi i- talrjjm imaimi-nL inllawed liy ra .criihtniig wall « fm-rgtpn
dial rrmiwed all but Lhr most ^iililwm all ^tJiiniL %, ...
' Doom of Piuudiic. MWwrl1 1 r!/.L' ii oil led tbe^-c “jlik'Tl bmn/i’
|i*'TtiaJ‘ if i ihr Baptist* 1 ry ['m
[ani'ls. created by Luwn/u lihb
hern mi Hit1
1 -it
I
b t !. csi bi r>„ iLliis-
tmif .hi 1 1 - from iluic Hr!
Testament Welter ru.ujn c at v-
rsuJfc-jin liuur w n'ndw) the door*
UjfeB hiii J III- I led then’, lui L jmJ
farth Fivr Jiirntt!-- Icin’ Iijijm' XTte
pifritrftivT kept fhe-jn from
bn MU rtfltfil siw^y WWktllcii
(right) enri [limtl - i jET fill :i‘fiair
lirttfcpn-flff head fit r h i
-plowman.
jo n «nr dejiktniH the *iuiy ml
(' ,i i n p4.Ni! At*el !’fur t i g|j i) w ,i-
fntinrl iitLtr m tfcc myd.
familiar nsprrt. Whih' other* wure movingout the debris us. fast as ppsaibl.y workmenhen- worr blockme up doors with biickl rtm 1
mortar -n that nothing nughi be [rniuvud.
“li is dll here," he ssjd, "and when the mudIw-i dried, *1 will be like dm other bcohuil-
«rlj kc™ b lli. In rrt} own71i I
1 damu Bed frcseoes- Di I *rw.ftfcia
£ stuff
listed HO egogle frescues nrtfl 12 frrstrn ej'i lbs
in need of deantJig— priori l erf n $1mil lit fie
fTiAnil [or W^oiistimliL|E umrk Art experts
hjirf already worked nut ,l talmriDuj. mean- ni
triinslcrrm \i nld I rr or •- to icdft) rn-w
One a* a* the Gaddi "Lurt Supper' 1
1 mill I
inks months to transfer lim the iirnwliutc
jm il ilcm—beyond cleaning with jol vent*—re-
mmned the hniUcagriJiibi humidiij ipu^t J9i
CltlA's Dr TirdtttkJt Hurtt. an horn imp.
citizen of FJfrrtttce because of hisialn.n Lo-rts*
ili* \.t: w-^rks Mt art during World W;n [L hud
uarnL’il j-ain*t opiimbjn Hi'- gentle fat:**
'ometimo- icur-titiunrii, braidie fjamLliiir tr>
miliums of television vlewcfe in Krigl.mii.cnd
i lie I: mteil m jo?> when fine first doc uric rjtuo
of the flood was released btfort Christimts.nVVV carinol know The full effect > of thr-
iltKiri for some Lftne.fl
be said "'I' he waterrisingup thiuu^b the walls by capillary ncLinn,
triuId i: vcfttu&ity flake oil the1
1
ai n E
"
l had a, start tins vision of a group of horri-
fied tourbLn -run ding in the Spantdi Chnpdwatching the Ercm (WscirtW srutter down in
Vtviiy littli ‘nowstormy Timc l rntm^y, .ind
watchful waiting will be needetl for naans
months before the frescoes ran be judged safe.
In thi’ Itumi'llfi. Michdms^elo^ Staines
seemed Ect be mol b me. They wore fluffy ^kins
oi tiilctim | wiwder to draw put the n*< mature
and sonic nf the oil 3S| Then powerful
^U-tenirtUb were put to wesrk on ihr yltiiiis
,-Vth lr tom one nr two stubborn stocks, liie
BLLrpL'l In’s rolled ion fuiw look.' Jim isnu'h L Itr
Worse lor thtf Arm/- vial
tirti, Lit the yUtun- tif Science
the re hr- Hull Si^tioraBonelli hod been birred
1 1
1
l- behind in the p-inc WftttrTS inrhid
inc Edison’s phi allograph -eve rviu Lilly mure
recovered and restored to ihnr chao
The KTCLitegt riilturkl blK£> werrthti imnel
11 ; i i n e a l^_ - ,iaid tJir htuiks, and liti-i l- iiMm Lht!
1 k-ri'ulean efforts cil l hi- student volunteer*
wid the Engeruiab *A i-^q>ert5 combined (o vivl-
ninth hi wtuU had been feared lost
ONE i’t lB.|> \U iRNIN’s k when *i wmdi
I ^un bud LulllIJv broken through the
I widkid ltcrtag£ the Tunce
VtcchLo—an orderly hive of Turkmen Imiil--
jii£ mill mi'itrhitB H3id buildiniE—up the Van
i itiicdMriini |>a=t ihe nunc I'ifti Palace, and
mm the Ha hoi a Liattkrp 1 iva> Jnt:«km^ for one
uf Llic mml ifffUHlfll bfl£jnt|il* in the world
.ind found it In u ^recnlinu^e
[j r. Baldmu one tif ili£ hi roes at the 1 find,
welcomed me in n scene of pence?* Ffee poilis
til ihe Hwuhiinri about wire broken h>
mistv rays of streaming vunlighi, In l he ijfek
lance rsi^irl its- nvmfihfi am I Rumufl gin*nib
^Carnal against the d;;trk shrubbery
“We -ire luefcu that the Medkb liked lem
di^" Hr BafilLni sjifA1 These gardens hnve
had iiiuT the omu of the finest oilti
tions *«l lemnn tr^r?- in the world Idurine tile
winter tbr tree* w hmjiiUv moved into the
Lif^e budding Hit Lirsiunmn, a-hhii i* nowpi
our ims|idJiE. Cottie iliil See am pal tenh"
I hi^pitnJ" wns nn ;ipt term tor the Utmitant Here, in it room nH>t¥ Than *4i i feel
iril dMeeE wide* stood row on mw of double-
decker steel bed-, (pages J7*3|, Lyimj on them 3?
M jh^rinrit miIIh - (In irl- <1 tin
uLEiln'til in’ THjl* Chun h MliUunl Anil Trium-
phiuil.n a Nth-reotury rresc o allribulei'l It*
Andrea lb Brail imitft in I hr SpantUi chapel
oRlae Church of Simla Mnn^ Xuvrlb. Even
:itlfr l hr -v;iE,-LT rulitifiiirri In nsp in t h
n
UlL k h\ i .ipHlary su linn Fn chcs:k Lhe
Tituih l u t-c _,hol li i r fmil i bk'wt r- w&s * h -iam* Ird
iilong ihp ban.- sic i he w all The i r&*r t> cf prr
-
M!llh thr fhE Lht DofetilnlrMII 1 5-fdef ,M
lhe rluJ <il tilt! Middle \i*t- Emperor. Pu|«L
dvrie& unrl drvuii! f.-ii 1i.fr before tbit m*UitffJral lit I hjrpis- i \bmT them the .i
1 m
I
.tin ! rirni 1 1 r> in ter l lie ^*te- of tacn , and
ne Feitr glide* I he Ship of she (bun-h
ihnuiph sfciSTtny •clis
Gl-meIv, Uftui fektosfcr Alno dill
j^cfcrik aivnbs the face of St. John Ibe Bapd^f
so i, h MiiHium £? rhe l hup h >1 Cfu- .
Scholars attribute (he fmcu ^Si J"lm anil
Si- ^nanuL-T to l.lnmenico Venetians* ^ Mth-
c i-nhLrv |isnTM'ifT an tWW [i.iinELiiii frl hllliJILF'-
KeslnrcF^, ta'ins; for I hr first time bir| i 13-
jtited by fuel nil, eirpemftehtrrl with ror-boit
tcLraeJiliirkic, tje&Mfie, nwlhytanfc cblundt-.
and other suiV«*UJ to remove I hr. stains
wrre more th.m -M paint.-*, ;m^cK Virgins
Mid Bill! i rat kmin % c-ach panel wore n entail
while tug like n patient* chart, which re-
corded ihc humidity of the wood und meot shrinkage
\\Y ivimrli'M-tl through the ward, pausing at
thi -trii'kun I'iirubuc. .uu| hovering umt ,i
M udurtitti of uflc pi fsiuttn'- Jotluwer>.
"These panels were generally made of
poplar,"3
Dr. Baklim said ^The artist would
prepare ii ptinel hy coating it with a tine
plied lt imxrrL wish glue, called izesso. Tht1
Ij.iLiit -and-ecr^o l-tytr .inil 1 he wood harking
Jutvi.' dllh rejLl rjLte> of expansion tnd eon-
traction11 We paused before A huge ESib-
century altar panel
"You see what happen- At t retUtin point
Use wet wpofl keetKs etpatiilitis?. Init the color
ir&nnol. bu it britins to break Thai is thr rca-
sosi for tlie imilburTv lissile" He Ciirefullv lift-- *
cd • 1. 1 ) rtu.' r ''111 nh. al tva E ransparen t m ale rial
,
ftci'M tenth’ miscalled rsce [\i ] ut
All over Fltinwr I hati noticed paintintr.-
eciiHin.l with ihh abMirbrnf paper tl UlC
standard etnerEeni> b^b^t for dainaszvii
WLirks id art.
"If llie color Iili> n: i| nr llakt^t, it will
still be there under the paper Bui then wehave Use Mint problem in reverse \b I he
d rites it shrink- faster than the gesso
,md ( Dior Sometimes Else gc-sO has crumbled
and flakes off. lakitm the paint with it. If i*
essential ibat we have slow., inn trolled dry-
ing of the panels, and thaiis what this build
\nti "gave- u- With lurk, wt will be a ‘lit to
salvage rno^t of them.”
T H E LEMONAIA was prep tired—;h
new concrete ilnor, ar» inside roof ot
jjh^stic. a hu-cnidtty- control s>'5lem-ir 12 day.1' When the fit
1
,si rsf eJu- "patsenL-
Wcrr nms'rU in. on Pteeidber 6 , the> Inokcfl
in dreadful condkiim IjecatiM1 ot mold, bus
tliLtl wirnHiUH 1 pnd>lrm has be™ conquered
I iy fprayipEt w’irli ni'statin i[mp1 .ml w anti
biihtir sometimci- used In cure diaper rash
\ \mii:ij KiiiiU-linmn, John Si hubrUl, 4
student ut the Slade SthtHsI of Fine Art in
Ent;bimL was onn of tliose who came to Flor-
ence to help ouL He WUs i-^fulK hiiLibmu1
the fflungiciik un Ik- nnde^ide^ of the panelsHYotl kni'jsA
, it h.L' always been the height
of nn amhltidn lu wurk wilb Uic-i*
pieces, and htec I am. Bm J never thought U
would 1 1 La under these cdt^diUony I.imk at ilM
this mold— green, black „ whiitL Eiink.1 '
JnhnV hunitireda of student ci?1l«agu^ were
Sn>7> th ratii^bnui ilvt* -• it y un<- ft - efivi runs, bid
Tort n red Figure n f MfctrV MutiLLlriir. SrVfld b) RtEtai>A;ini:t nn j.-U- r [b > •
i i
,
j I l*
I
h < .i1
,. ,n
rcum-s - fctfllirl Umri \U\rt CflTTOCtt i of the TUm TtlC madftroji! irSing intd III.
tt&ttiMety wketi ili« ivkhkIpa tffllue (if the hips, bn* dirl mu flinij ii from us pedestulKcsjoiieis were iU?ni iLbfcJ to i'md Ihice* of lhe nrl jinjil \mint ftVetflid Jjy lilt flood*
IVi u if the niii inr tft in -—-jar Farr Hdvrih'n
ofm .it the healing phtnl or ihc nnlrnnfi staiirm—\wrr drret-icd toward list1 major saivujir
effort in Rnremc ixsctiing the book-
tn the fncjil tu pi nusl part of old Furl Belvtt*
den-, fm n high hilt south of The city, I founds^3r :LEit1 Ml> Roger Pi j well, Bri^h hookbtildes. ^upervjhijsg an iritmiiiiimiiil i re\\ of
student in die rfcsme of the XaiiiitiuJ Li-
brary- most vaEiujbk Vi,| ume-. kjuiei hfilnri
hut hi l he PdwcIL m (heir way seemed tnorp
perntflflent than the fort
When ib<- hnii-n Museum called.,” MriWi-ll * lm\ portlier peter Waters* in-
geUier wltVp. IWuthy CuiUJHfty arid AntbumCain* uf the iriLiiiciLin > t LifT, uum1 io pjorenceot once in set up ihi> ttsm/"
Mr.. Wafers, a younger 1^1 • arrived cam -
inc: a 111 nth basket lilkd with chee^ bottler
of Wfee* JUKI breELd
"Dreadful phtre for a pienst..," Mr Ppwetlsaid- blowing warmth into hi* hsntiL Ailorig
t&blg$ nearby M students werecleaning dried mud from piles of hooks i pnge.''ii "But cold inhibit- ilu- Powellcontinued. imThal
^
tin- word Tor mold, by thr
ti>: id Fbircncr these duy*. the ihirce most' linkable word- are all uni* amt— fta/ht,
fjtfrgp -if i* I mud, l
l
1 1 1 1 r:n i lei/"
MWi were lucky* though, about tht oil.”
\Ir> PtiWCll scud "The Xatnitird Library u.i-
‘me of the few \\hu es where oil did little
rlnnm^eM
The desperate m enures adopted ih she
faujtif hour? .tftec ibr (food were i vuLvmginto a feystemuiunH it^embh line I during thea
I i= !rm k* loaded with driest books luun the
conschpti'i.l ttslwuCco barm-. brirk kilns, andtextile plants dimhed up lo Fort Btlvfcdjem
where ^heKinE hud been tresled in the stone
i^w-pin s- Tilt; RriEifdi team i if experts cammedi mi. !i
, -:-lume for it- condld^ji .miJ rartiy. andIhen marked an irnstxucticjji -in-t-i For fcht 5.111-
dem Volunteers.
Chcyojma pt'u|ile aiiriL from mamTindons urn I spoke many tongue the teamum^I the interruiii'inal system of lu^hwaysign:-— tin iifnt 1
1 hutui'ler- wilh which mcj
tCmists in Europe on famiJiar ThesleJi* fol example, me, ml “
I Jr 1 not h«uch.,B
The FiiwelL climated that musi u i Mor-riii s- - • n- 1 o k : 1 nn he saved, rhnuuh none enn
W
sli> when t|u:y will atjhe fliven new blndinp
1 hi ft ^ined anrj carefully Liken apart at
£ . -rt ttelvederi?* tlur dried books were given >i
faath1 The wjudimg* prrssm^ imd drying nt
the smpamted fauces WTil dune ul I he heating
j}] lili t o t' Lhe F lor?: < 1
1 c mil f i Lit I -taim i—and a
mace unlikely pt**ce mr die saving of it®&ul
ltbiiLt> cannot be mivanned
In the Cavernous moms litled with huge
Iniilfr- nj.ii jungli- tiyms r-f j-Upt s
load Lit a halik of w mid iiiluntiKetl
the i.ulrl handmade pa£c> ]ii piam tapwater
mixed with fun^'ide Thi dried were
apt id become brittle became the old
h.ijrim ;Lnrl ^alhereti in puddli - the W-cshmy
itohed nut ihb old g[ue The c metal tot nr
wti- Lhnl the old Ink- and handmade papers
i i mld be w .as h f 1 1 w Ltb hjI damape 1:
s nal I v
,
like iud-ividiiiiljlimes were flnttpnrd in a prta-s
and hung out to dry ipapfi 26-Tl
Sally I -i hi StniUL xta Amarkup binding: us-
|jrer? now lis'itij^ in London, wa> ^ptrFvi-.ifPg
the worlds oddest wssh- Ofca^unually a < luud
ul -Irani tmptud frqrin the boilers with u
iTiieho. ieW^i/a* ;l- the hem mi.' plant went
about it- normal busine**.
The IP Ml Em stilled, Ln-isEiird finish1
111 I'l-isunn ill ml !' Sr B MiSini M u+imm lie tWiaied
MtwJ bidkeri Hare top- spinet "i Ihe lOili icuturv, its s^iiBidiuu Imaof cracked, Miif-
ft IffWITH a cittern ' rlghl ' nT thr S3TIW imtumI imd I Ath-cralLiry iriMfitmi nU of tin: lilk
famih Mireidiar Ehniit Kc^ulsi tiplsls the iplit buck ami tsiih-firntnry vfukin, 41
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42 National Geographic July* 1967
"We used Hi jump/' Mr*, Smith silm I “but
W i-
' v e- gnw0 hi. the noise And Ihestf pei
.
pie have been Jtijsl wonderful; we've alrang
lints on all of their iiivorit^ pipe- ' \ ml indeed
the whole plane was filled with pu#c* hanging
in the air like tattered sails
A ft er <in in? ai the healittf pfcml, the b< »oks
were return tid To Fort Belvedere mill m -eh a
treat muni with thymol crystal* Lu prevent
mildew. lh late Fcbniwy, the eqlirc book-
sulvaee program h.id been moved Lu Lhe
National Library. Workmen Mr| installed *large ethylene-oxide g.L- chamber in the fax
den to fumigauj kifgu number- of volumes UL
enure O.H^nflUy the; unit had been drsmuudto stiarihirc powdered *oup, no! books.
Thus tlie rescue nur- wa& ftting on- with a
growing "t hope in each passing week,
Flve months aster the fl« n I c RlA h a< I r .1 ] ^c rJ
nearly .md wn^ girding lor lIh-
long-range problems of (rcstornliiin lb.il must
tvtiw 1'ih Inw ihc tirst nil I
EVEN HUH-OH the living of paiiiiing*
n nr Urol (Hu re icm] huoL- held dit- world\concern, my mo it indelible- impicr-Mim*
utt. of the CotmL^i- ijsf the pupuio wimd-fJ
—
Flo retiec% “liti.fc (jeoplfc.1 *
The flood did its worst where human beings
roEilii least alibi'd it Ycats ftgn Hie small
rraftrmfn^—the makers of nmasi^, I he wocjd-
tarvm. the leal her and si'fcliki worfctirsp the
jewelers- settled hear ihe river, where water
power would I urn their small machine. FI or
ms is probably the test European di> when:an economy rests so heavily and happily upon
hajidcraftamm and small najuiu/Hctiirers,
many of llwm using the louR ami tcdniiipn^
handed down tbruunli Generation!;
The image of Florence after lh\i flood Was
tbit of sntall shop owners sweeping out the
remains, of their life's wn r k_ Bui they are,
.* ft it ill l . VUI re hi i nc s f frei r dete r mi r.ition Iu
carry on was voiced bj .VLm’dEji Iiat tag) l
who, with her parents*run - a nuill SeiiLher
gtX"b shop near the Artm
‘We now have w t urc q^liiei from ihe- he
ginning." she said, “but wc will continue My
I
lart'in r’ lives am I more lliun 25 ynirs of myDwn life cainmi lie destroyer I in one night,"
Thu i hi y - im mef 3 i .u 1
1
> .1 I'e c r the_
1o«| were
difficult for the artt-.&3i- T but dowl} life andhope revived. With aid from such organize
lion uNKsrth the \ nr hi-American Rebel
Ku n d,and th f FI nrentine Re I i t* £ h'um l t b
|
hm r-
hu 11
I l.i> Svnut 1 u t' 1 as b r irm F
-
t'l S nf K\u irffe
1 -
1
and,FlornmriAvm fi Eimpn wr regnui rsg hack
on their feel
nistrjr>‘ meanwhite Eldded an ironic foot-
qptc Two wtos£ " iiotebofifcSi of Ijeonardo da
Mnd| discovered in the Natii>nal library of
Madrid, were minU- puhltt shun lit al'ler (he
dfe§ttsttr_ They indufied a long-forgottoi
drawing from the are at Florentines elaburate
sdu 1 isir to coni rut flooding of the Arnu with u
complex nf rannls, dam-, and n?servmre The45(F-yrar-olci pbm rm^hf have saved i^eo-
nardoS cit> much grh-t. Bui it wii> MVOr CftT*
rivd out, ami Monfrtre sn, its valley ha.- liv i d
il^ history (j 1 iJl>il>Ut- U Ii.lI. nseasiires tn Hivm T m
yet he t*ikfn. to protect :£ remain the lonLt
ilsmii:ln^ n( innmmnvhur now. It &crin* enough to hail the
KMir-
.11 It1
1 f V hi re 1 ii Cs? I' I sr clt\ ha- reeainn l jm fu 1
1
ib nirmer apfiMantc I'lEmitinr holds andpensions are; ag-iin open \ - ,nv finding
thousands of shops doins business as Uraud.
and b&st uf all.lfae art - a ns are hj*ck ai workCountless acts of courage and determination
and ihe supjwlft of ^ gAmpathedt world have
nmiic It possible edr beautiful Flurviicie to rise,
like Botlicefti's \'ceiIis. Irotn tlie waters.
Furli ips the scene 1 wiSF remember most
fn>rn thv dark winter tiny* was a troup ol
blue-dud mud digger- -v. rngine thc(f Wji>
through the chilly streets of ^anta Croce
Thivc yiiLmg people from Engtanrlr Switzer-
land. Bdsdum. i Li l United France,
Uunruarfe. SifermEiny. Spain, Austria the
Js'eiherlLLiiil^ and Hr^ii vu-re cli'urtng-celliirsj
Hjll filled with tru- t'wl mu+ k iveek.^ after llit
ifmrt lu - m4 paJavt*- hnfl titen deanedi wrptched until Lb *:
1 truop uf 1 huger- lurm <1
a 1 'ifru-r and vtmished from siaht But I could
st it I he.'y them Mu d-splaitemli cold, andtired, they wvre sin tp he thl emli
H rid Rfn is the ccnhiru-v, i*i'- a.i rv br-n^t 1 h v Hf 1 ,iii* r to lift- ti^i-vili -he Humnufloodlit I’alnux' V^vehio \ ulli cciitur^ copy o3 Miihclmietlo -
J
IJ.ivicT starul- under1
tut iiiui i£-
1 i 1 2 ertihtems n! I I 'irm ihv iitEjauxial -r i^rL:- tn the Vi.wIeih^ 1 5 i-il! > .l \ £ eTLj -
mmiiifi in ihjcSuhL Volume lii'Udd 4 spUTT-f of r nii~-ri
>
p a -JH t tirtikr foftte.d shat I'Mtf-TM-
jjinyctl u» show defmnu uf cliemy urtilkry lire during ii sstfie. Exhibiting dmilur
rnetlk f loretHincs U.v- \- fUirsed tjufk lu health (heir Firenze BtU^—‘Rcfluttful Flortliie
FPl^P^j W ' w I M.+ -• !+ L43 C UKXTf
LAKE POWELL:
Waterway to
Desert WondersArticle and photographs by WAt II: R MPAVERS KHWARDS
Niaiiona.1 Ckognsphk Stuff
II K E-; A SHINING MIRAGE hr held bysome lo>l protpoi !ur in the deJ^rt* p, va^i
' new hike grows in the West behind GlenCanymi Drtm un the Colorado
EiffJy in 19W, hugi- *tm) gute- droppedarms* thi mnnels that for tmir vtiit? huddivEfttMl the Colorado around Lhc
my.Telc plug, and the river be pun to rile, Dirr emjltln^ Uikr will back up 10ft mUri-
Glen Canyon Ihim, Gooding one of the
G ilnradu1
' lensl known uni mi.-l pii rid
lift 75 milts upstream from Grain)
Canyon* which beauty- loving Americaniagree min never bede^poited b> « dam TheGlen Canyon project is part of tbs Colors In
kiver dcvehiTTmeni iim^ram that began with
E]ir un-iii Hoover Ihum reimjiktud in iijjj,
-Ntnm Ijikc- Hhmivs Hundred h cifUinLKund^
To in iistronauL. tbe oiiie^rifliuii-gaNun
rent- tv otr hi Luke f*o\vril rising behind GU-uCanyon Dam would; resemble a gigantic holt
of forked hghlnfripc sjanMcl across Lhr Ari/timt-
I i;ih desert i;map, pkg& 54-3*. To 4ome peo-
[j
I
t, it represents Irrigation, Hood i uni ml,
electric pguw+ tfc riMthm* and beaut) u
man-made miracle Tu others it demonstrates
the way- in which Lite vpltnrjur ui naiitn-,
rewiiJisfl thmu^h MMiff of neohiirical chau^ .
ttiti be drowned by ihr work* oi rnuti in mimtiiM of cosmic lime—a trujdc error:
But gopd or bad. n has bc-cn done* andeven a tamed river may offer more _ ir- rliup
h> conqueror is capahb of comprehending,Before the dam Wii£ built, t^ich ytJia
1
- visfr
lors to Glen Canyon could W i i-n tiled, in the
hundred-. fhough the? area i.= refonte frombarge pupulainni tenter# and >iilt rflasively
little known, nearly 360^000 pftgqtif swamed
thru* hist year. Al dir hei^hi irf the s«uonMU j !:H>3iE.% ui.tp laiind^d weekly, with morethan ?D0 ciili-i i-j there on Memorial Daywrerktnd liIoeii\ Victor? are drawn m?i merelyby lhr rfi -ElJ Waiter and Lbe ahilndaji! '-jv
thine* but al^ by the cmiliUiilnrcd, cliff
-
jili iriifd, Liim iip-r.Lrved setting. unra\ .ilcd by
any other b_:'Lre hike m thr worl'I-
Nmnc I Timurs Explorer id u Century 4 llu
I 11 rs t encoun Lered thU « b^r r t hi n d in 1 9fc2 1
before the Colorado -i irtud o> fib the .',heLT-
w aJEcd i. any un lb Lit iwUi- jw.iv tu chr fttirth
east from the dam^ite^ 130 mik> nuEtli of ibr
n enre-it nry ol \ri 70 mt. At that
time, dualing rimvnpi rewni im ji t wit mLicli ii must have 4p|Mylrei) H renliity"
before MHhe m»n for wfiom Mil- luJ.Lt i.^ nwm^!—Mnj John We^uv 1
l
trti,ti
il r rlmtntl^st l'k
ptorcr of the Colorado mid a fn under of tb^
Natifferia) fieographk bocieiy;
"I'.tA! these towering monument^thimi- nil i tmded billows of ornnev >andiHun*i
past these ojk-.wlgkh*, past ihesL fern-decked
a I Hi cive+i, past these m ai^ii l u r ve* , we glfda hoy r
:iiter hqrtLir.#l upping now ind then* as out at-
tentioD i.' ari^sted bv sortn j new winderDriftim: along
rf could Imagine Powell—in
In- Uiirtles, a Ihl' whiskered veteran of ih™-
t .’i viJ WnrlliiLl rudi-Dsi him .uLtm—landingIn hij bout r lending bis expedition ilmvn the
Coloraijn Eli 1 g64.
fur tw n monlh? tpid i? 5(i river imlcN, they
buttle rl naplds Then, from the junction of
the Colorado nod the Hih: Devil Rivers in.
tin 1 mreditg of the Pari a, thv becamesnioolbitr, Pnwi ll named this idyllic -;t tl-
E
i.h
i ii«r
i Cany cm. i hoite '.vu^ ,l|4
fConiinutd cj«
Di'sert vumish, create I -is irv:m m»l niiiEiLyLiict-e 'Etj i.q-ije, 4.reiK: ^ >aiH:-tonL- wuJ] an fm\ d-
m11 ^ E 111' the fmrM fttni nf new Like Powell In southern Utah FloMir mft soil-
r: - : 11 u: waters Lacked Up hy Glrn Cnmn»n Dmtl UImtcl ilUcd In chpacfly* eIll- wiH
dinwn l his hM&m hut others .equally spectscuinr survive m nuce-mnnle canyons.
U i + ,* Hr - U'Htl'MI HIKHtTHIE 13tir> I
* 3-=d ^ e n utiH-d pjjtbfid npii oUlft. i iv i i mkli tempi-- -i.m -ri.ilii r| tiifetTs Tn hnuei m it Ikultm •.
Thin. *to Litr* \i timmm COttiW lofrftfi* tiw K-S -ilutil-r khw, fehmtE JhiIes liar Ctitiirarln
46 DtsiarK Lp Uorc* \nh 3i left MUr hmor* I.Jr John Oliver L.i Ootte ( I WOT, feta iervcii
lKl- XiiLiottiil Gtflfrttphil Sin le!*. un U ^i'MFV Iru'hultnR ihrnr. j'fir- .ta Prchlrirni :uid Ei!ih-r
ritEmnEi*!'. ]_.Lki' tWdl ^jII iovcr lh\? silt baf urn I llie rtkky irt the* fiiYvumiinit, hui jpiifa
Mu' jirrh SurN Iwauly wtjniStTK hidden ileep m ^lurt*-- h< trih tit•!(!?< 4 7
t ...b*l Lnu kite Hit-1 1 ill
J'rem :i Jsil^iL bill nil ili r ri t ;) ni-
you L Him., a %’tishcriiiHri nets j
I _ -j n r.b nd e j -1 lev* ire n r [ i,-ih :i mg
u 1 lif siLti ]mr it|njrb. hnili
bekiw ,smJ diking i\.c jt J W«it-hi c h ii- 1 ii rt'lf [lieu aii 1 1 1
1 m“i|jh-
l?r?rilfij: =.^arL r lJh' wnrliJ'- high- Ji.1
bffrii't'. filter?
itn-PEinri in trout. Lu aemeulhbast ifldnjbfu Mid i-.iU'iib. Air
itnfyi- fieri' uli rally it; k thr
lilkr tpLlJZCn frH-<h.
Bfiit'if tdbldrr, .i. w t'n .eiin
ri^b ls;i'« vnj.ill foj Lhc huoik btl« >
ul 1
1
n Inc- nl li fradcr
Ih « ii* Drift *"•! 4 j i. k i - . 1 1 1 1,
fredi trmii, dusted wirls ium’licisl, ;uv;ut the frying | iLUn 1 h>-
;iri?mn pnjn> .ilmaft men- I h.i.
.
hungry rcurii ifcnj can br-ir Thes.1 . liMjs nifiht Ebry spind
."icuiiinz I.-ll:- «.pei lbJ> wedge mf
.-anrL br-idr tbi1 Inkr nr.n' Heli 1
in ihe knik rpap They.i wakened lou iwldti'n dim Unit
rm(Jtd the i:at! u- die star*.. mid
breakfast'd hh If|t hiirnmi 1:
j un
ii imbed abm'e thr j.irittd hurt
jfiirf inrf cm efaprfl tlif l’ijvc.
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Lak* Powi'M Waterway to Desert Wonders
! Iffc Mu- hvt'r - imrnm LnhuLirx amyoustempt the ecplurer into fa^dnatmp: sdens
—
ii-m-t fnsri. l^Ln-is whxrt walls* tapestry-
itrniketf wjiJi desert varnish hy imn and mail
seepage I page "S>i, lower up to thin
cerulean irre.>ceni :- fn r iwrt 1 1 -H-i 1
,an t I Lit. mi*
L-hsi r Avct% glow LjeSii at-eh pink or orange
Whei k I ft r ft drifted t hmupli 1 3 1 c n Cmyimmunj inicTi Kikihi lurch* irurd Other wonders.
iliffirLih ii imi impossible it) pead^ remained
unexplored Four year* later, with the like
flooding deep inlo UieLr twbiljijE passagt-^.
1
1 • : bf - rutir qci'tsfnhle by boat, and 1 Jfi
*. ns! Led, Li party lor an ixplur ilory cruise.
To mvigaie Hit new lake, we attained two
Huchlur Jel bemis Developed by New Zea
40
hinder U dLi.ii> Hamilton tn Lruvd hrc humrland? i hit! low nmnniai n itvrrrttts, they drc'.i-
tess than 6 i
m
hr* oi wnitr qi their Ift-mile-ao-
hour * r 1
1
i - M i j ffiwd, and could lum in l heir
own length \ sing ,i waterIut -y>h-m m-St-id
nl |JhOpeliers, they were sisltx$ of the boats
dun in i960 climbed the CoSoradifs rofcnida
bit- rapid* m Grand CjLHVrjn. 1 We suimed
them 6* nv.ir Lady and Blut L&dy.
J o help man I hr m on our month long
ltui.vc up LaW PlswvII, J rjdi-ipfl 22-year-fjId
William iThiz?' Belknap III of Hmilder I'ity,.
Neviiilii, v Jso at 16 had piloted one of the
craft in ibc Grand Canvun adventu rt?. HeHr
*Sr* ^Shunlm^ kaplcb in k-L"i'rn-t:|ri
Siy WLILLaift Bel-
krh^p, Jr NatUIKAE OtEH)HATHEi'. A] ml. ’i^i
?
w \ fcs jcKt n-L'fi by hi? -l^Err [*ose ^ind bi_=- itinther Franc*-?.
0i£ fat tier, photographer William Belknap. Jr a In-i^uunt
iintributot to I be S it'UGRASM^i joined u.- whenever hr
could. $nbn Efrttnt* a graduate :Oi:i|l<ii( -if the UnivnOft)n£ Minnesota in MrniiropolLs, and jerry lIarrcU> undcr-
pxaduiile ai the University qf Missouri at Knnssas Cit>,
v* mi ptoted *W Lejmi- 1n adtliUm Di I Parker Vjtfr Z 4 n i h
,
m| WasMingtrjtt* D, <L, a spry aviation
plOWtiti und former ajfrtriblifor to I hi* migiaBWt* acuoiE-
pouted us for pari <if our journey.,
ip n hl scorching June afternoon we started from Wah*
wmpttthom five mih-,* lie hi nr l ihr 7 ICMimt-high dam ansi
it.- vpectoiiulm bridge, world r
& bights MbrS-urrh spanijunyi, (Si Until work Leurin on (he -Urn in l
r^fi„4S mile*
Lit jeep tf.iLl- .^4*|
iiJJ.it t:d Lin.1
-it*. In 'in pnYtid kiL*:liw.t\
After the burner was fobbed. like National 3Tnrk
^Mirvive, whh ti jdminisim the new r den r nnyon N;i
tiurud Re< reatjon An m. I mill paved rnaiik betddr the btt$
ill the nmuLh of W:ihwtM|j CVetik, the Like's Earnest bruit -
likLi nr h s rue u nra Xi
*
w , w ith a nui lei, i nu I er park* a n d nui
riiu, Unhwoup Imults with Lietivity. t l_ikr s r.iJF'u ha
.grown o fast that n k 'oast i tiLi r r I station bn? been <stah*
Itatjed to assist with an nj»gre$*iive WAter-sitirky [iniLniim,
Like t ruMng lit 4 Willing Vim Line
Between W-itveap .md Padre Einx . 25 mile- u^laki*,.
(.he river had not vri i limbed out of Its cunvoti In theV I
11 ' W
namiw chiuituj the wakes -ni nur bout* and others
bounced brn k and forth between the clalT- churning .l
chaotic Mnrni id I'risac rf^siiiB echo wuvp> \? Jerry put
it*w ITs likt* i ruising in n washing mu* time
"
I’jdi i. Bay was worth the pounding we (uok to ^et
there (pages JM} The lake1
* id
water, k i nt rod lin’ ed us to the massiyp red sands Lorn cliffy
am] TTinnnrnenii that would hr out companions during
mmb o' kill1l.rip t iuuddlt Bmte Jmorii il h -.
!
.,t _: i . Ll it Aitd
-
dir to mir Eeft. On our righu DAmingdfeJ Rm k hu.nd its
1
l* 1 1 jiiurjolitb bom the ]etke T and many minumeii buttes
hOkji] airmnd ites like ditiniheil sentinel*
1 me of tht he-u-knnwn IcLmlfuat'ks lies betw i n VadreRay Here in 1776 tw rn hranciscam, Father^ Domln^ui-.-
*n i I Eseal atill! fou I ud ifn- Uolu r i*do -m t h t sr re turn 1 1
1
Xtnv Mcxka, after u futile Attempt to u|nm a d ire* t route
tei Lbeir orders California missions. The spot name lu be
kTimvii as the tTn^Ulg of die Futlie rs. \? I .uke Powell
mrmtrd, rht * ros Liiy vatu^thed under iLuli-e H.n
We b# itched out boat? on a -trap of golden -und :u
Padre Mhlt wMirt the Navaju> plan U> Fmilii marina,
uaid p3 united ijUn the wuirMLlotlpr- um\ u!t The ikt&vm
ilrv Fi im 1 hud tfehydmfed u^, and KB soon learned, lhai
the *inh wnj* to remain comfortaltte was to drink tmllon -
"i w Liter und wee our?eJves dnwn nl every oppuruimrh'ol Iowing lunch Hm/ md bnie derUonstTated then
M&r-n 111 Olr 1.1 * Hill-, ll- Smlli, l.jr. Ulr f I.LlLl \ .kK Z^iufct wnar^lAfikbilE l^wpi -wi k-.ijrui^" iiir Uir Mtirrh, kV?r 1-FnoAAeufC unrl
tin tin [ rjiil ii£ lii-r Atr Misil" in jim uim iUJO u1jv*1 uk IVm'j-, m)
K«v.i|tf \o:ij.is Ui ifcr .tun* i 'U s,o-ui*
t Refill 1+Hay V^pUttef! nn l1i|- NiK-ia mTi'iilinciiEl liiClIlTwr* he *l'r «rii
!Sr;i Ko Shinius \puntiinf" ffTffd^ft¥hfl r ‘
:Ajiril. tBfri
Diami ol cbflllfB wriHight byLcikir PowrJl uiiEoJtih irt iilr> •(!•-
itraiih? i f l i rc^-FT’' Rnttr miul.-
fciyr year- a part
Whin rtuiFkoi Ed wanb, flying
«c* a » fiitapanioii LL"Lj?ntiiL.
\hc pkUirc above* 3ti Jtmp,
ihi- C'al&Hkidn ^nakrrl btWKn-tfHjp-wnEii'il hank* N :
>ic mombslutisr, the ear i -r H|eti i'anjun
I '-t J 1 1 |.! #.I i/ii, uinii Ull* WaEc.r t .1 1." -
?ar cniToaChinjj on (lit lunrl
H' IuiUb Ol l^i I lii klkt ;dnn>sr
ri J1ys (J i c u: i r - Bn He . \l ia|JH i il>
FowlEI wiJl i«vit Lht1 fiifnin-MCilii
behind rliF luiiiir and I urn tLe
-t-iJE3c l.rj ts of mu* ail
water- -kii mu- expertise When Hr£ljiia:r IVin-
cess Margaret and her husband LunI Snmv-lnn visited the Snke tit year before* lie hmlindulged bib fundoes5 for ihe spun The Novcmber weiiiher wa
s
took and he had ypurn awet -.nit,, hut wr nuedrd fio nirh instilniton tn
midsummer the *urf:u:e water was 72 f" . .uid
ilic -ill ii blamed ndfciittG&ly.
^Eurm-lossed Family CeiIU I nr Help
Keiiriin^ u|t[ake the next afternoon* wrerounded a Jong kurv? lunding inln t-asi
L'hame Huy, n brnod* straight arm that
stfetchtd northward, pandielbai' thu multi
-
rntattd layez cakeofrht KsiijjarowJLs Flatg-jju
for mrirc than ten Sufideriy we werec . b 12 nJit m one nf T-ake Pow$UN many moods—the lian^-urou'* ottei The weather m thein ^ i.i ti is t-upririuus Stunn* eaisn he wild andM-lualb Etnil lm.il j
riL' ti/ 1 1ih u* >v.iv. uri v i m
[iiiii competent crewing.
Ai the mouth of the )m\ we overtook afamily in flislxe.^ Pfic wind, whipping whilestreamer* i rum heavy swells, was toying
With a tiny boat and iKi'upants* a COM] di'
and their fiw youngsters The d re lull or I little
ones were erring.
“Can you take my children ?11
shouted the
desperate rather Thu waves denied about to
swamp his ho rmrnuule plywood craft.m1'-pn rJanstmt^r sbotiterJ John, “Head dir
hhwel Ovfir there!"
Wc courted the Jilrk- boat tu a sbrlkrtM]
Ijtac h, ftm 1 noon Lb l: fa rts i I v si . ,5 if ryin u at011 tu I
li life* wcanne Ported 5 parr cMhirig fromour duffel bag* ^ipNjmr-ite, upper),
'VUlt the storm, wc breezed otil nr I^-rt
Chill h f |In s?nrl headed uptake once more.Between Dungc-m Citityopifc :i 1 wv Ivinz be*
neiiih 250 feet nf Water, and the Eiiouilt ufthrNan Jnun River, 22 miles further up the l.ik
sihoul twenty TriKuiJiri conycin; drain Km-pFmnVst- I'ljteuiji in die imrlh mrfMesa and \nv,dn M min tain Jo the Bouth_
We liarl explored mam of iht-.-r oik -ujr rafr
lri|i Four years before*, li i k
t
e 1 l: ilu p into suchc vociiiivfJy named canyons a- t>am:li tie
Kcipr, Cascade, Twilight. Little Arch. Mystery,
HI mikcfa and bonfire warm barter - draw hrrJ by
U iKfiUllI 1 1 III I. J 1 1
!
i' i'-E I Lhtm dll Lilrl i lldll! t
[is i
.Jfili i . IE , .iji- he rc 1 1d pi i it ft* :i i u K A wt i
-1 i srr ..
I ii! it mined (he climbing 'Kim thiit Rralccl Vnleue-
til v- * hfclLvd iwak* o< June* l/Jfrtl
Southwestern tun copperptel#*
huLLf.* ,i!h^ e TVslI’i Bi i-, wlUTr jc*!
l^idL- i’uL « rv_imy ttdke-- A] I but tilt tip
111 hlflrr IViint li-f-*- within ihr
Viviijf? rite^Mi -4loli dial boftkra Lake
FriwcM's eastern shore N>ufli of ilie SwW
]unn Kivc-j ima;i, ne^r paeei I he Irl 1 *
44 Jn-artnfl and mmi-ip here.
T Si ri 1 1 i ti " \ i > dioi r tiF*,! hunt rfitc* Li Nby ajn i aim!^
^kimi the lake A ulme\m\m like wiMiyul bis fallow
TmtLois. Hiir'-iiil Duke farmed a rniid! idand near
I hi- tmitiih i il 11
iiut i
k ( iinyrpn before the riaitts* I li k «_-
tt'jii.c'rf tuLErulfpl tl. A 4 live in tnlhil .j ti"jjr \w
strve» a> a member of the Navajo {jiunH] and
for .i time was (' IminniLn rrf the toUUriT'-* ptflk}
nidUciu; Ajl^lHiO^ t uminJtEee.
41
Ot-T4t
|fTubfV
1 IHhHJii-nai
* . .
* '.
I E j -a j ng in 11< - n o ^-civ stfrt!
|oJ' Eli luitfirLi j > - • mi*, i J i r Col i !
«
lipum* south tvtjfl wd'M| f< 1.45' > mtfe* to n-.if| SffcMuV* f *nJf *1 fnfiJ'
tiEq. firman rln rLe Atar^r* 4 l-cm'*™ I ill* miizhK JfctffrJNr ill 1541! i
J! nr
ilirn t-ejiUJfirt it i-rmuliij*i 1 ji ri vrr of'nivsijcry. In fSft’j. M:tT.
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Lake Powell
70M
ITiTyTF Ulilb
ilnltikxu .vi fart
C-an^F-i jjiftir> fa Can
Wllfmt lAkr ifca*!* dl rntarrtT’
farmf* rmfr !> 1i j r* j^ptwi in
'l'lti'
I * i: MUm h'mJJ pr u*« ».* •_ ljwimh . ip i mV* !, t% *f* •••*!. ..nSE?^
Civil ;nr vL-ftMim Powell, wbp fust a Isurarpij At
<hibh- ffcJ’Lia.hl T3*pJih far itu*-.i «f
hi: hiring ji-iunn >. ibwH !h'- C nIwaiIu Rut in a
1 Tfrmile tfretMi nr the river between it.- fuAritooi
with ihr Dim 1>rei3 wail VimA fcivjrf.-, Fnwdf and
his roknpunii^ ffaiitH «n autihjIIi, swift wafer,
Aweij: by rhe beauTy ctf the afonlH* 4d* ciJaytifi*.
h.i iiiinii'iJ liif fitpn 1 uim.ii
Km PitmcU F.lilLIl' thief TilO-pj \U* fat1
banks of rfor yfcran River in f'tah .luring, afi IftTJ
f.ilMHlitijm The v.ptifct blir b' ruter the IkrvL
I>tT i -i inr cil"Hint StnlUUHHjiatiS Bureau nf Elhn^tug;:-
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nfaiik.il -m vry,ftnrj
a, toimdtr of the >NaticmaI (idturnitilm Society
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Hidden I\k—astr. Cmhcilral, Music TempleA few., Mke Mudc ‘IVm pie, 4 vast* ferit-
FiinprcJ »;ii.imberthiil Powell had found ""filled
with sweet sound*" now lay more than 100
feel beneath qur hulls, but others, !tke ^ ’ailw-
drill and fferbiddinE Canyon*, bad summ-dened imh their outer dfirtr-r-
It Jlfl C’ii rfi i: % Fur? 1
* up N , 1 rn 1 mi1^ ( h^imit'U,
The Like had npened many remote t>eaul 1 k--
lu the eye? os the voyager (.'atb^dral had bitn
one of nv fitvodir^ In l*M2 we bad pene
i rated only three of it'- refuiinl ill "irmnis"—cavernous bulges ' Ulptured out of the sand*
stone ggtrps by milkmmu in* of w&terdiomt!
sand and cniveL The lake had N*i:n murethan MM.I feet ^nu't1 th^n, nnd this unae we1 1m-<d lor almost 1 wo miles in a channel t hut
f
rmUrLwted and expandrd as it twisted, until
finally it became ton narrow for our fid IkijUs.
Here we unshipped utrr Sjidrt Yak* a hard
pllk&tk Isol&L shaped like a life mli, nut muchlarger than a bathtub, kmii likable* akid :v|e-
imrenlly indestructible 4S) \i various
times we had paddled it, rowed irp sided it,
nr draped 6t lJi iriLi 1 h e fprrtlnd I* tailed w ills
duffel Inverted, it -ur v n J !io^7 ,i> a bodIf! this liny cm b F lu^jt femeil u- -'\
I i.irihi-
up CLithii-rJi-jJ * 41 n yen : until the pnss&jrc bc-
came too tipht for even it5 42-Liirh beam.Khmi 1 1m r 3 *« lint, biikinvmfcnn tiriftwnud lnu^,
or straddling the -.fiftt e beUvuin hitds curving
walls, we made our way to hipher ground tend
picked a mute over smooth buukkTu until
a high iiverfiLtna, the lip of a dry waierral 3f
fnmntted further cxidornttiin
hJSiiix rrnlrs from E ' . 1 1 Su-ilmi r.invi>n ami ahout
iv miles Irniu Wahw^fi is one or iJsc Jife-d's most
flUTM HJ s? vl Ei Ii r
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1 L%c i 64-5 ). S|Hit I-
niny Bridgt Cretfk:, ii_s sjief lactiLii rcirL ar-nh riru-,
J09 ftJtit abort: the stre^tr!1
- licfli Mtikin j H'-tStmmv
tn the rt^urjElf '-s jK>wtf "E tlic; vt | fjtufi n b* 1
Four vi-iar* eurlLer we hud hiked Tor Uve miles
from the river To rciltll H^obow Bridge, ih rotting
our wily i j;
• I’orhifidinsr CaayaTh ovrr flower
h-c-kiffj rluni-.-. through ^li-irrnnu Hi ii I it Creek,
past ±ire;i1 nn 1. - .nuE i -. - .i - nmal few WHterfatti Wrbsi4 sto^^jed often lo linper la thr i I ihhiU alouj
the canyon fWbr H was 4 tough htke T on<f b reding
hot I pjcutl uikc ill our party pspiitg a> he floppy
I ji'l 1
1
\\ thf dUi h. 'Ttti all here. lull Mim-'- litAhOdy
inside puaJiiriy"
’ELil^h Urn* of ’’Three Kisiiiia fo FtolftfruU ' IN lhe
April . t nst^ National GEuoRArtllc-
f i-rErt* ii IllW in. nf Pa^ irn Mm‘ il-Silli it
Powult patch lhe desirt^ branny maniJr.
AtrldJ vlt-w 'UTvt«U Ehr JttlwV pnuthem vm\
rift ifa iMtorui Utah hwiiiij A pr&ntjniiit
l,i rid mark, I^ftE Rfck . Iirotn* hke a forlrT^j
;it upr{
n
1
r led -Jft'i nppHitri rven ffiilfr l«r-
iftHhihlL- ui water ievd (b«fc/.|).
the lawn a d4n limit, -[irancr ^liI
Lif s=i, rub lLiiiI MUid-lotic iitop Ariforia's
Mjilt in -ATv wi. wli rf I- Nilvajng. %rn££t] I fri' i r
«hrcp onl> -l dfitfen ytnr-i ago Pram I he
,i pluaii L'll « -jti r- 1 Lm Le -. buiSt arid
adiJiinirteiH by the E'lylrra] (iftitromirni.,
Pane -willed ift itSmaif 7,TOO tesWrTitj.
tliqmnn cumLniLliuji uf the daiii
Today the EoWtl CftUnU at mill T _2Dfl hut
rnrltmiiJatKv .1 llhr%|i*Ml.n hmifH X* A
rrn r^atiiHI ^tniJ it4t?iwril I'cntrr. Huiinrs.,
schools, oflrCQ builflin^Ji. tUjw’.rmLirkuL-,
mcili l,', mil t vi i‘ It» .* en churehej litit bruad
paved M/wLl Tlie Dtime hucusr- Lbe LuLe
juian 1' Pape, Cpmmi^toneraf the Uiarniu
ill Keclurn^ii^ili Ihiftl 1
1
iA T let ?IJ ln meld
{jlmuer in dfi, dopmenE of the Cetwratlo
kivrc'- rrr-r'Urr^ 1 -
l' Stl'
lJt lapfiini atfo>j- lln- Uflrlitc,
]J 39 k INiiie with k-jJLdli, E. !nit. Eu Ltie Wesl
und ailh Anmn^ 1^4 mulmile# In Tlti: t^JiaTh ^luumer scmiicr.diare?
• i»ar by day, buc ihc 4,.trjiJ-fi.n.*L clcvaiicti
\iT\d hi' huma riily iffiglr
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IS
1*1] well\ hriifst i-ipuiiic isf water, Cadre Bay lap; nr i mmiijbl Rn»i»,Wc funcsround Already tbc faketOHt-L'rL' tnaiii iimnrkHih>rw> jhlMi^uttd*. j iw<u| 1 (pS fcvl iEonb lonuninmn] It11,
1
el will widen Ihrhnj toM* wilier swaJliwinR rhf Milling finper of Cadre Point .ii ridu canter, tttrpl for Itouilnmirc Rack near
9
ii - liji- Water* lick- ever hlujhtr i»n Gnpff Butte \) hi cc 5 1| bsnr llu- nimutfa uf Itnfdilkc LabA Cham Baj ,
.itiil tjL’yoatl PinirL'. rither hiridm^ri*: lilt Lilalcland rj f C-'unmrrimF.1’ ^ff^ Ujiper npiiL the 10+M ftKrt
uliqkbuiik i if iN.iviyo Mon main, behind, and Lhe ibrer ramliiiitfi of Kaipar<witH Plateau, tipper ItfL _>fj
MruiliOL llllsElli itMtjnn F llii
mouth of ForhisIdiTis Ctinjuii Bezuirht'i.-fi m '
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i of pRto^;
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!ht* lltUiillVrritiorijil tlrti k HuPFr .it
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can buy barret fn nil
Wahwwip or shop for cafiiijintf
ami fbhiHE ^Fj|iplicr. Mwiiaron mi- pcrjsqctin^j aftd a p,irk
tailor Ilvi; in EbOti'rf!? Unit *11
tbp plattorm
l'"i i r.| I liI-* l.i I ! l! t
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fork- ribbed uulec right}, «,irnLi:r-
hormr victors wdl rniii-i 1 ti» the
bounrLory hj| RhIiiIkfW DHiUrVptjnna] \fniiumeot, vidhin a
short. walk id' 1 Jte anti
f>4 >>. whstl Lht= IllLc I i j. .it l . j
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CSpaiii* \ n firr-Eakf < I <4y> . h i kcr?
SSjilL Iji imnifi tiv» mill lj[i I he
Canyon to redda the landtuark-
fiO
m
Water backing up in Bridfe i 'reek wag
flow 'Uii - 4 mite I r im k.onlinw Bridal 1
, mdtlir Like ultimately will form a reRotting pool
4# feel deep be neath the firth- Sotte jiculo^is^
behove 1 he water rvtiUuaJIv will t apple the
rfttuc u Snr 1 oriTintian 1 "l her? disnarr e I tut
more visitor* have seen Rmnbpw Bridge in
ill l* |iij$t iwu >e.!i- than in liN the prvvintu
yr^xv >inci its discovery in
In tli.u i l r |iil ill Wi.Ll.hrri]l c>
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ft liurM 1
btmvalh Rainbow Bridge* tins first white mtin
known (o have done so Neil M Jmlrl whorli reeled Sort? £ n+oixel frrthedogitaJ tnud-
\c$ n| SntjdhWestern l-miian fu.ul> four decades
a^ci, was with the jwuty L3i.it liitcovertii the
bridal and wrote in the Geographic of hhiwe upon lira tehoMmg this sublime crea-
tion of the blaster Builder"
Our ti|r|-iimurfc PaJfk^r Van Zand I, hfld
known WdbbriU "In I0l?/k
he told us,,4
T
Ikw Wl1I linrill around N-ivain .MiiiinLim on
Ins first pliihi' trip. He wouldn't believe him
small Rainbow looked —like hall a ihin
doughnut Now I'm having pi hn.r-1 time be-
lieving it'^ so lug 1'"
Iftv my part, the sight of ,i murine floating
fieifcr the entrancr to Furl adding Canyon hidteen hard Lu belieVc. Its white structure?
nestled tacangruiiusly agmnst the b rondure
rliflL* in 200 feel of water ijtfii,
Then: was -omcHiing else new ton* and it
^riikmui it- When the Lite level bdnivru tv-
p rioting water leaves a while "bat hr oh riujii,T
• ih l he ivalt> uf the srajit porpte I he Earl that
1 .like Powettpresen i s i is br sr fin c *m ly w Iiun
nnne or remaining ctrttfUust continues a- -nine
argument against >uvb rlarm its Glen CanyonNear Reflection Canyon Line moming< Btizi
and F me l Guv -Cham tens* a .nhimHuMi terF
fn jmi I ui. nun. Ar^iHiEu .in 11 bis wile IiuLi>. :i
nurse putt pull mi? ajong im a ten mun (itr
mil (x>wrin&d hj a liny outboard mat nruWe've kiiriwts this canyon for years," ?iid
Ml Chamber?- * l
W'' ^lill love ii,
1 hough w*
liked It tetter Ihf hvjii Lt used t < he."
U l11 1 w I* i i ii ihe n i ered Di “i i I e et n r, a ixi Inn I
indict nalisl T i n h is ft fMot it h r i i esc I joat Omn i r1
With air t'oiidiiincmiji, two-wa> ntdinielc-
ptinnr, .isirl „i spcwltejii u> p-nder. lie -nrirt hUWests wj
crrF,rpU^iiiro! ir in style.
^This lakers the Ereai«l thrnp; lliai ever
happeueri1 " be exdiii'fnc<1
With t.HOh rtiplesid sterdint^ Lake Powell
m- <-! >.% u- ii i - r I ow r l»rri ^L l> fn
n
Ti rl id w t ?ee mi nrt
than three boaLs u ^ lime above Wuhwr.ip
Fire ^IlII VI j
n
l i - Bui Sit NjVjjJos
The |5;r* n:i-?.f|uiirif-miie Navajo Lidian
KcMTViLiLon tiurdrfi nearly a third q( the
eastern -horu of lilt kike Dm 1 .ilrerinmji. in
the Note ol lirnlmg ijus we cmted fm
22 miles; up (he Sun Juan and imlled lulu Piute
C anu itj > one of -£ve rid ] Lirge so r
m
1* t hat dr iu n
the nor th suit ol NLivajo VI outitsii n Wi 1
left
peif b'mi^onrj hi kei 3 up the creek Bill Belknap
furfed ahead with a iwo-way radio
He tidied \kh k sthhrily lhai he had found a
Navajo lamp near a a prim: and j ruck cum]in a strove of coliortwoudi. but no NavajCte-
Hl4?oks d theyVebeen here recently " he
^nirf “Suneest you w! nlk up the wn?h”Midi -in hour Inter* a tiny while terrier
overtook Us, .i few sta^caLo barte, :mdi biappeared ahead. Following ,i liand-dm:
ini nation ditch. Wc came fituiEU Uj a spring
and a rock Midler with a fire pi.ice
"'The i:"-ds nix wnrm." announced John
^Whoever wm hen? tsa-ni been nemo Inny’
The icrritr rcappenrcd, Muffing and howitm:-
*>rr 'Bi-UfliU ihii C !1 xi y HLlli,' _M.it i;Ji I'JJ-E 61
3 IF *liac|T wereddv. n at tin- ktr," John
luim-d Li i iru.1 and added: ,lWhen 1 Lull himyou were from tin- Ceuokapiiic, bfc warnedtn know how ]u' cfiuld gpt the mn^aiirbf. I
laid him if he’d meel us tomorrow at the
mouth of Piute, ym fti Arrangr it for him*
\r
t-xi dax(Hamid Drake, his wife Stolln*
and four hi' his five children enjoyed their
firsi [ ii iiit ride tn i^i^f /jidy 5,3)
The fallowing afternoon found us al u his
tori'-
spot I ^sc, John, jerry and
I fun hid prccttritiu^Lt 1 1 ik j cJitl
about five mili^ uptake from i he
month ol the .S ; t n jijnri. < )u.r feet
rtsEtrl on a Qttrmw terice SO' feel
above the water, DirecLlv below
M>. W nv jf_Ltdv fitjaied oi i hr iiprs
i if a painted in] el. From tfere a
^erp irasl led almost straight upa cleft In 1 h l* canvuti wall to a n nr
-
row nolrh at the tup, 2i^i yards to
nur right, known a* Hole in the
Ruck (snap, page --4i
Hvfv in i hi- winter ul ,4
lidi ju! tiJ Mormon pioneers—some250 men., women, imtl children,
with -ome -Stt wagon? » horses * Anri
more t h .in I , . it H i heari of i atd
e
lu-iHcri fin their wu> i nun IAch-
Laiiir, Fs.ih, Vh settle on the
Juan. Misled by over-oiJtimisni
and hazy tset^mphyy they found
thigm&Hves rommittfd to trekking
across almost impassable dstfert*
crossing I hr Coloradn, Anri huilil-
hi\> a 100-mBg road through somtof 1 he roughest country m the
VVesL FfiF break hi the t rk-n > ’nn-
von wall was l be only way to crass
the rtvrr without a kmc detour
In -ix wih'k- id tU|3rrhiuiitLti
Cull they uficncd u muie through
the " Hoi if” wJih Ii! ratine pn wrier,
built u wagon to [id three-qu alters
of a Tnili.1 ilm/vn to I hr ivuter's rdo.\
iL-^emhled is Lift, and nh ibr op-
puii tie -.hi m* hpWeil a road up ihe
EllCl- of ;1 J5(J-fLiot i liff.
The :'ir?t thin] of the way downWas a »1F- degree grade over rock
ibid became slicker and mr*rc
Xtnii hr-mcis with \hv <*s
1 UT 11 Mu- im^t. this -i'Ei - of Flute Mess,
now idoivuig red in the set line sun T warned
un to retreat We hjul pom1 only a short waywhen a sturdy, broad-interi man m red -In rt
and blue jean^ hailed I mm hich dp on ,i rir-c
^Havt- vim seen a link while ringT
Ji>hti ran t u meet h im and rettinied to rc fKirt
'
! 1 1' - .i N.iv.:ju .i I rittht —-naiiii 's
I I . r< I •
:
Drake. [Vo was ture |ileased to find jus little
popch. He and bis family camped hen? last
•-.lip; hi * ut * i-* l_
Si|-i1<in huddltt]^ \k -'ill- 1 lit i ti I Li1 Liu- kiyIni3i p mrh ovgelmihui^ ^VfkctiU t"atL>an.
Wish it' .ilttTrwtfT, ihir- kn-JiH- 1 irtttr
she vertkid opettiuk'; :al aljual "eJ kel Kudi-
The f*nmk window—W'drli of r Liin
,wind, and
Im-E.—-s-tantt- *att\y .iLnyc Luke Tsnwt-LI
every Wauorl Incredibly, they the waeohs ddwn l Est II waftDh'^ f^rulcv.' were incited,
and ib- rtMir wbrel? wrapped with chains Adozen men And boys hunt on behind c«> keep
ft from i areening into the rocks below
Jafii-ph Smnliinl Smith itnd his wife fuuml
fhrTwflvo stranded .1 'be \u\
1 V giumdsnu.
Ravmoiid >miib lYtofcd the M^ry Jt few
>CttTShl
If wc MiiJ.S hfld n few men la bold 1 hi- w;t^-
iin I sa 1 k ‘ Jiineph angrily t?c< latrned 10 his
Wjfe Arabe! E .1
"HI 1 In t hr bidding back.n ^id italic.4
-ao
m! , \ : . - hnti I_-iEi "t Lh.ii whin he1
* U&d buck
there for?"
Stanford braced his lefts again st ihcr Tish-
1 1 0*1 ~i!
f u 1id T he v e H dnw ri Old
Nhg wns f h raw n tn hta haim r h
ns] I i'd Ut hta Mile, and pve a shrill
neigh of ieiiffr
“IrUs deed weight vrfll bf its
^xkI a I s via One‘
1
\ ho 1 j u fa r Be 1
1
1
jusS ihi'Ti her foot caught be
Eweeit two fulL' She kicked <1
free Imje tuM her bal.m* l- and wfeut
ifirtiwtfng a 1
1
r r aid Nig- She
blinded b> l hi: Mind She grilled
her teeth and fating on 10 tire lines
A fagged rack tore lift r Irs-li ami
hot pain r4n up her Lem from heel
fu hip The wagon itnirk :i huge
boulder The mipu« i (rrked her to
Jirr feet and flung her u^uinsl (fie
jade of the cllfs
All die ik-tp 11 fttUaw Needs'"
The u'ltgunj pupped with the
1 e 1 r e 1 wedged under the to route,
and Stanford leaped tn the ground
and burned in ArabfTfo
In n shaky voice he asked hi?
wife, “Muw did you make n. Belle?
Bette, you’re hurl' Ts yntir leg
bruken?"
kicking his ^iio with fuiy, >he
fairly screamed, Mt me? that tad
like St"? broken ?11
Later, Stanford met five mencoming up (if give him a hand with
cliaEn?. urn] rn|, k&s
.
“We came back to help you/
one nf them begunrhut Stanford
rut him sh*«rlH lkm
,J
> llie ferry,
l;mys? Any nU It left for US’*"
Stanford hadn't untie h over the
bitterness hi l"dl when hfcs i iim
ilv iind wu|fi>i.i wert: left stranded
above ibc Hole in the Koc|l Hegiftn rc* 1 A r.i 1 >d So. S tic w a*
1nile I \ u rc nr* rn-
lieretl her lmILieo ndm i .md w.l- .Ldumtdof hi* own til temper,
“ IAi rgy E lit tallows. Wo manuiU'ii fme Mywife here is ab the help :i u-fluw needs,"
*
A 1Lip(Pit [hjfll f*i H*'tt 1/d fji3— I fl'Fj JjllW 1 “ ^
Sumehnw, every Vupfl made the perilous
rlc.scanl -;d\-h !
11 fiagjf 661
Once across, the pioneor band faced full her
Iriibormu^ rrtftd huildinjGj: through mik ain-r
milts of tfltert, 1 ^ lrivil, and eroded rock After
uj n wemjL- of travel, t!ie\ halted and founded
thr ^clllrtnail tf Bluff, Uuli There had been
no casualties, and three babies were bam tin
route, tnn (be trek, nriginsilly rstimateil at
Tniti^ry pi rettcclioni fnrrii 1. II n 1 fuel .mhi:
iJjrures on a nist-nsd Wall in CMbetlral f-in-
Loir Bel knap and John Kvjiil- vi f. eve slit1
^port Amk mriuml bendy between
cliff- that rise limn-lmd* of icri hut >mnd
lejvf. than LeH Isrd rin the l iUiyoh llmjr,
sis week^p had laken them almost ^ \ months
L-lWliil f| h LI,
Like-u cdanl\ i i j 1 1 h I .
i
r. L, 3-Li i
-
i I i
i
Ui-jili/i-
shtdti nn ill1 tiFiis njHcfitlnr in for- idling; iU 'mJiluili . 1J11 bU' iii»w
rt'nrhE^ in vniinn 11 mik 01 r hr iiw^sa itw isuwflmirrk hwcli^Wli'fv hzv* hrtitpidit mt\fv v^ilut 1
. In tlth iMiLiUi-ti naJJuniil
monument in Ltl£ po.il twii ^rlir* 1 Ij.l i
i
in .ill Mil: [jztViiili^ U'.ir*
hlert iL: cbtDWf}’ in I'M full bmjcht, i Iti-
frit* w rN' lie a i
fciM ffcrp in thi iIi tij'- n Iwinw dir IPMcwt lifc^h iin h
DWilrft'tJ lit aiitliki: prolKirHim* Ity fc her immr n-itv nl rbc
^icinr m^f rni, twn dlmber* wave from ihc t&]> to .1 inm|imMriis
iwlow Thf awweiit dun i Lind* » liarrl+ lijJf-linui rlrnib
Anjp] pbuioHmfJl tn^Fk1 last it.u ifcfii tr;iee* I lie dr\ bed itf
Brtticr Crcek h ornhitetl thv *p*±n I town Lhi* ehljjji i Ip mi rr
i aurs-e liUJditd silt-laden mrreni* lHnl ihniLusk -t .1 ni I
-
grille butLn&tt and, durinc Ihr ojws, diuptd fci Inlcs natnri!,
l hru-cit orrli, CctilUnc? oE wind fMih- hi-*
| the nuattnuetL
Krrilniui dmMli\ Hide ifi i hi
kink w kl ff hr - m-* I hciufli1 dtj
f. !
in l he winter «r 3 8“ 9-30,.
Tii h 3 jLh (jlm-L- tame ;i handMurrain puHiter* about
i s < i min . wome il umi t hi Lt Jm n
in rtn rmTrtd wasum—on ;t
joimJcy frrmi E^nJantt, EjLiIi
in \hi? Sun Jtmn Klver. wbmrthc> tii
11' iff I Tn
|it-Liit it rujonv-
He«r ihi*> fundA 4 tertftblr
ulh-i =. k—(he iJeep, wifi Cd-it ii rlij Ki Her m ii: iiitmiiiyly
jri]|.'.L!---;j[ik' -inryL' Jkts they
found i mi- ddi thiu uiTered
hr>fie m 1 rL^chiiiJi L In* river
Blitfllinp .in u[K'riirm ihrunurh
ihe M liuh\,i!
tht1
>, cani
,
eil ii rum!
linwn thr < I'-rlf-ifrt'C slojit, Mtin river iJhry luitU a tall* andOH the cppuiulL- side tiai' kei I
alintlirr null tip the Uw of
Lht _ SChFemjI a liffA. Miclh lhe>
-orl U ii Ii V iffij-Vr 13m‘ ivnj,iofiH
11 -i^ -i I h c prre iptl tiu f, nx t
dm if 3Wi.ninpihMmm wJifrb
I'rrhkin lui= l-.rn^ vim c -V. i’p.i|
Awuy mi T-t erf tbt nuid's mt-t ;i
I c tc dr : i of i ) tL'ii r horses. 1 1
r
ItLUJc? Ilripn | '•Iti'iS till- UMjMH;-.
nw\ mm and liny* Irunti on ;ls
hlimua bflikia Incredibly. the
Mowpi tii“4 ism » w iiioa.
Arruy^ I he (.'frlumrllii the
trod k-d bciucuti him* tint-
-bind hiHllden *m which Lb&
finmeiT- -atM* lifrj iheir lmk~
li.iN imd nnmei Thctr duto-
^ruptiv sumy* tin Hi La- If it
Kjh k> .dhovri .1 remindi-i |n
riMvvl" visitors ItMhn liI : I i
mdopriitahtr frontier [urn
m
Luke Powell' W L~rrwa> |m IV-itI \V nutters
\\ i'
;
li I jl'I i up Li:ucl obscured much of the evi-
dence d{ the heroic pitssu^ In one sirm ii . u>
lr*ver-r .1- Mm htf, ifu 1 Mormon* attached
a rti+jd to the sKect rock wail \\V in'lw amoves
i buy hunt) rtal huh lr hr indde v. gpm wheels,
auiti holes they had drilled for pole* to support
a ruatlwm for thr outride wheels
tiV.iii-r* Vtnvist Swallow Huge Vreli
Jtjsi mirth n| ivik- Lr lu- Hi. k, rlw Ijkr Ls
ft1
1 1\i\ ihe muddy E«calanlr Itivi-r Bo ton
Luke I'm Well provided tKi.>> Jircrss liver the
quicksa ltd .it its mi
i
mh h fcis hxit plateau -roamshk ' rutLemen knew the uppiT rriirhv* of Hie
Escalante Froni the dir. 3 brtd tam intrigued
i its deep trilmin rii - FIflym il v i’ n * . I k bvh
'.ijLJi uiiJ Clear Cree k mi I he \ul
4, uid
Steven-, Cow and Kjt|i]f>rtr Canymi* drain
ins." the Watttrppcfcei Fold on the pussT
Now, boat l mi up Fiftymile l 'nrek, we just
squeezed under i*Tr^ ,r> Xsiiurifl Rnd^-'
which nrii ( -imred ISO feet in IhivL *hjji Ii.
however, the triahgEiIar wimtaW of La Gorce
An h (pug#* 4ft),, named tor the late? John Olivet
La Gorcc, Presidem and Editor nf the N.i
T son al OewrAphh Society from 1W to tWT.>ee 1 1 I E'f I high fill I LI \lh Lip - U rviV L- So f Ifr 1 A I f 11 *
fool panel of Inrhan pic tograjrfi.y htlfrvii) Mhe n thousand yMH old
In Cl fea i Creek the lake hi> eight feel deep
in the C;i1 hecItaT in Mir Ll^ ;t aten tfutt
il-nSuL recent* df-cL Musn Fspeple l had hiked
In to see il The previous year in ail its tajJfcs-
vrn cL vttullril Lilnry Thi-. t£»e wt entered in
the liuaLi Though it iv:is sflli mimtitficrnL f
misled the Ltrren ptm). the liny crystal stream,
,ind I he deliCijle moss and maiden hMr ftm on
t he red simd 11our 1 1* yrui>_ tofj. i lre numbers S
|iy the rising water-.
lOsplori'T E \invon'- rranfrrmrd the
Impression J hud gamed from the .in W*hiked to the fur end, splashing ihroLitih lt>t-
e.i| potils, pmi^inu lo examine aquatic
i-realuri? oi drink from m cook swerr spiffnj;
Htri! 5iloWWt4ii$h Evall- niiTui il In -i
.licove Water trick Im l dimn inin an in\itih^
I
if
»
i_i J . V ittev mst wim-d ;t r Into- ol riri'ki- under
the owriklltij?: The Lrr^rtl iilrtive acted liku an
r ^rf h®stm *h ell ireflecimp th^ chirps of sweep-
ing Walel-pTX'cn lijit j the >w'cd
dCH eJidim? rsote- id canyon Wfeft^ We left
the niiiLUUurt! Shmiiiri J^! rdlict4hlly-
Tlicre k much to be Icanwrl ut rnuJiV |nv-
hiiduric p^i in Uiimv ciinvonkind^. Art hizmlr
i
from the l 1 tiiversity of Dtah and i hr
vSii^euni of Northern Arizona, tinilerrtmlmfr
whh i hr Park Sr rvi re. in 1^57 lieizan an ur-
urist purvey «tf the lnke-liL-d arru to discover
'I - n:ti ’ kivrn»t An'hc-.* l‘> W Riitu il
MonEi'. Nations [jfoub \pm* ,1 I c i .
Iv5 :
n wMJn «. !«<• j* .
Dlno^bj- juuL.Eiipn; Kriucn \n itdni1
, P^ck- ii « bvwd L#y the ptuthrdr*$ pji r. m E\|>loref
L’aiyim lime I hr paf h-i of reptile? living im mlllkFpi year* .4p>. Pnnis. more
diiiu 4. loot wide leading actdm the rwcfc wr-rt- moile h> n r Firm>-..;iur i or §,1 ixii »-
- ,mr * -.iin lire nr hiihl Icet PtalrnMalPpfrfc *4JHtwCl ti mii> hltve heed die lit! Kiiyedtai
dihof^lir. Iti in. Itfttrua u.rt^rriU^ itkeieTiil lent lillfl tf #hjfb hflVt lierr ilnnu'eivil Clfl
the KsLS'njn reservation, A wnlltT dinoiaiir Jell rhe seven -itirh imrk* grnrtg up die »lah.
ix\i they could before U was submerged.Hvi- years later my wife and J had
witicbi-d it I/nivrrrity of Utah field party
Gsrtv.iti! ji cliff dwbUSng in a high akovein Slick Kuc k Canyon- abnut Jb mile-
upriver from the Atmth of 1 he Escalante
—mea^unn^ and mapping, pfi'kin^ andbribing in: storage cists, teremmuLil
klviLF, anil Living mom-. ami droppmiKt heir limt- inti j numbered Ijags-
“The IhrJinTifi who lived here aboutA.D UFO are tailed i Hi Atia&axi—Navajofor the ‘Ancient f Jiuv-,'
"-
. c iI I loyd Slinr
ri'rk, I he field dim r ml-.Ji
Remnants nf
aJIuvud terraces .-^hnu that the stream
level was higher at that Jinn?, .ind Use
v alley was probably covered with fiekb
oi com, beans, and squash. 1”
We passed the evening In a imi with
bronzed ymjtts archeologists, sirt^iriftiind
swapping yarns, while Fkyd sorted the
day'?. dfecipterie>
A atom? them were arrow hted_s aI 'tali i ilmn drill attached tn a rred shaft,
a ptere of soft cotton cl nth1 .string made
of human hair nod yucca fiber, liny comi 'i di-, part nf .1 turkey^featbpr garment^
foil a sOtc-l J sindftl that made me won-der Li' the huge hands and l i-d : had ?ccn
tn puLrniiiyphs cm a canyan wall were
rralh ex aggera irons after all.
Bn-ijf Ducks a.1 Onte-lofh Hetrenl
KartIn r upriver, Lnkr, Moqui, andForgotten Canyons were especially rich
in prehistoric dwellings In the first five
mile.' m Lake i anyOntthere tire more
lhan three joeeri Tilt March, 'Ji2 4 National Gi;iK;icAi a
ft[t canuiineH a pir-
l u r l fit
;
in \ n n^ui s Etc 2 lTO fee 1 1
1
ho v r ilic
Htrrntn an MoqUi CiLnyUrt VW -tupped
rmht pnlo the same spot, fmm the decko| tflttr (.fifty,
Dr Jesse Jennings pf i he- University of
t/taJl, thu project directin'. had laid meabout ihv esriijiLK rfiseoVr rv nf ;l 21 i-roum
Anaiam1
1
lieMm m .i Forgotten tanymaalcove i pa etc? 7 2-3).
J
tifipas?ahle fid Is above and below had
billed il M.rl," hr saidu\Sr chanced or
an it i l bent h Lind -a nd-Urr trail pn Led info
tin rock, bypassing the lower folk.
-Most ol tlie rnof& were vidl in place,
a aid we sound whole pottery vessels. Twoperfect red bowls still had scraps of Food
in them W> turned ihr plate l.3e£ancr
House, because on I hi- cliffs Jibfcvc there
.eit piaoLEiaph? nf three men bt-undkhirig
n8 weapons and shields. This place hud
>i, h i v i r
,
rj qittirtvr of n mittion
frtinhuw trout vttsvmir from it ( ff>
ti n it frvp+fn 1 1 tmnin f Pn u mtLU „ /r rt
hrftnr. f'ttmifii nmuntrd tm tkp hr ft it
of the plt.iiiv and fu rnrg the frtil .nrinpppd
thisi picture At l hot tt hritxdful of ihr
fin^i ilivgk Mircin ti the drrtp. Lmt ttrtir.
(ri;^rvr|Ocfrifiii,
/i ituithai, htr,, under
t'mrfr with ftu V. S, Buemu of Sport
! t s Jifr ivs ^ t ut Wildlife . xra t tvrt'd
million trout tain thr i^kc.
rVT4C«HHn Hi 4Hli rk^ Hiin-n ijiKHiib C
not been disturbed for Mime s'vi'n i cnEurii:-11
•\b n«r ii'1 iMKib enlist'd Jihmy a rnilr l.ndnw
1 1 .ill?: Crussin ii, is l hiu l 9 * nsj lest from Withweup
fwiir Lin; 6f. a short side tan von culledi
Lost Mikf-si, ] foejnd lhal water h*nJ covered a
rookery where 3 hart iwe se^n rt ores or preat
blue hemm Now, a kmt bird took ia11. its
3iujUl wins?- heaimg m ditinifiud retreat.
Jud n- the herons oj Hidtf, ('rassiru: mueoiu\ *<> are the largest of the rapids in ClipCanyon A iitacid laltescftpa tLppczircd whereI hart watched kayakers- ride white ivnier
mat Birthmy Creek.
Vimther Unrlnuirk I milled '.n- whirl wTas
irfr or Robert H Miirst-ur^ jdant dreckx. aban-
doned In irjtdtlream after the fafltm of the
tifipftrseer > ydd mi hi he; scheme in HlQ! Sevit.lJ hundred profipettoti bud fringe work ltEi n
CJoii CimytifL '13 il- urold
rhfiWever, proved km
difficult so obtain. imd thi- men drifted awuv.B
Millmrt* of Fish limited \$y Airdrop
The biy attraction these <ii\yr ]> Ibhilig
i i.nik WnidiL vi'hci hiu- ,i ni.ir nut find fern, it
Hall t ro.k$inj; (map, | Line inn totrl me that
SO percent of those who launch Ihrir I mats
between there and llstc sF miles iip-tr^cm,
romE mainly to wet :i line
iC44^iMGHn ij * I I.
A tie -old wdverssrifcs, Mini tuxd wairr. ua^e a mulebut niumitnilh baitle in Glen Cjrn tHi be
i
ttnin, thr liquid rmlni r ri 1 111 rtiu T'oiir years
knyulM nlipfHNi -amk dr-orr- fretted irjst i.imsi-
rtsfc piehli [Ugh nJiiivi- tbr river•runners lauiued hl
IIIW irkliMidnf rave, upfjtTfHn from HuMl'fi Vsuaame.md Mudr 1'emjptr rnrtti> Powell bJuk ani the vw-duc!! bm atm the wielding river, and rifipkgr tn iJhe
Very lip nJ -in Since Inflvravr (filwvn When ike Sake
f LMft Jil l I the/ 7> feel, the eovwi Urti- a l]J vnn i - 1
:
Thy r i unit ;irr [ruff I' too Jfiiiuh for casual
I seers. hut tlir ailing ^ ^client In
in rli.- S*.ju>- iif f (ah .iji'l Arlinna lonsJdct
Lake I'ourU a mumr lichen ark) mulr.tidn u
bio I n meal station al s<i muruitfu ti
Ei-cry epnnff since ihe dam di&cri, l lie hike
has been slocked with irnut and lar^emouih
Because of thr dUtanre from hairher
and ila ureas Li-ng'h of Hiu hike* they ,uv
dropped frornanatrpl.iiiefuti'd until four SQtV
pilfon Links. T saw several such up-rainin'.
Each djiir, the tow-flyine V u- marie a
wide circle and relearn I its l".nt thru nub a
chute iii thr aircraft1
:? bdly In Is itocoricb
iS^rl^H) fmucrling rombpiv trutii streamedlt*i feet rl riMr'n m%<\ the lake fpa^et f>a^. In
inurda - million trout were released. Tfi
my astonishment, few died
Hoiterick Stout of thfc Utah Bepartrrserii of
Frsh and liame told me Niter “We scouted
I hr drop areas tu pick u|
^ ihe dead nuns. but
wr "r.it only ;i quart hoilleful altogether"
*'Haw fast do they grow?*1I is^edi
‘
'Thill depend.* un tmui> shin.- -avaiLdili:
iViod, i mnpnl.iticjtl from it her >poeies_ Water
tempt rat are \t lhi> B#t ol ihv lake. Wi are
uncertni n . IVobably ll hat 1 1 *s^ht inches a yeai
We did -' irnr tUh research mjfwtws jerry 71
Prc-(..ulnii]l>iiih pjL'hPgrapb’i i^r Ehri«- men v ill-
wr4|H3 as and *bt*ld* tmfrinni thr name oJ I-V-fianre
Hriuie, ia J i'i- r. i. .in An asan vidscc in Fiffigo^i Can-fc tin Atattiiltlltrti \*'t i
) ULU’ Lhe i£v. dL-
itogfr liiy UtidJfvlurlHfiJ unoJ OulviHii ty uf L'Luiii jirrlu -
"Ii.hI- 1 :- >ii- tn i-:=-i! ! 1 1
1
:i i i jjhr nu.rs ;u:-' ii-
!
ri>i-r- rtmumed IniitM |wll*fy -tsB Milfood. Sfietilbb tiicL-uld.br thui dimi^bi In ihr
I li Lit 13Lb drttEAin iijrcctj lli-r- \nLi.*.Ln— KiiV4.ui for
thti-H AnniriH —to ffw wn-mhiVarrl
U ate r ol L-uki.- * 'i,iwd ! , rblnjj into Furaut tpti
Camilla, will nor fjrwrl Dtlw Hr u-c*. In, 9 will
^rinii ho.Lit i^ within walking distHmr; Urn*
lh, I narrow diHi-rwai's Ihfll ret|iiire ^uopinjcibrhtw i
IflflLJ hflVir b«fl li iJrVtfe U:-e*r 1 h\ (fee Pt^iWo poopfe
to -Ei*i i »ursi ti-e hiYinkT'T
r \£,« - n h|i f
“It
*.• + qnpli- 1 - i Hi •
Huhhlt^ dry^ini la^Wern horidsturm mu] sfciuldd
-ilnii or metric Loir ^riknap dvffinftitrRlC- hemIlcfiajiCE Rntue wdm-r .i m.iilc tt.i, aJ
73
Lake Powd Wakrwin to Deserl Wonder>
« “iin -hk\.i\ inr instance, thiii gtri'n «mnfisb 1
shaving cream They also find peopIt tempt
-
inz. A-il washdd In the shall uwr eath morning
they nibbled at my ipcs (pnge
From Halls t up.slre.imi to I Tile,
n. uncij at'ier Csisi Hite, tfrt prosfMKtnr whnsoured nl’ilen Canyon puld rush in Ififi-L the
srorpi.
1 wall* are lower and |es * speclactjliir.
although some side canyon scenery reieuperhi
Hue wsisii’i wherr f had \mi seen it .Not
only hurl it -.nuuhl higher (pound, !nit ^ ht«ri
rauved seven rsiile- upstream This wasn't
diffinilL slim it coto£iifted of only u. few shucks
and a river-f^ging jjULiyh. Kvcti Sl* new
locution near thfc mouth of the ['in 3 Devil
Rivpi |named by the Powell expedition for its
high sill content 1i- Irtnpuriir} Wlven *dt fills
Ehe area, Bite will move lignin, bei-omim* a
fill I- slid pt-rl m jnun trifle* * i 1sw hsi rean 1
Htmgrj Conic Seeks Pic in the Sk>
We gassed the boats at Hite and soun
rmred under the new h ride
e
P just .ibove the
Dirty Devil Irtmp-.pagE 55 >, It is the only high-
way = pEtrs at'
r
;,7 -l l.i- L > > 1 nln between Moab*
Utah, nnri lhr rLtm* 3 55 air miles apart
Here the gorge charmer it name from Clen
t anyon to Narrow i anyon* and seven miles
1 . l r 1 liiT u|i, 10 Caiarai I Cam an Pnwrll riruii-
listed tlii- turbulent 40-mile 4reti h with diifi-
cull > IvV
n
l ip t'i 1 re elitemi k Catarac I Can ;•. an
,
he ran fihorE ot food. One day he found Billy
Hawkins, the cook, pretending 10 use a >es-
tftnt Billy said he wanted to find the litt Ltuflu
arid [cinfftude of the neared pie
The Vi'lILlt hy m»w Waft lurbid We WOtlUl
soon reaiiSi the end of Lhe Jake and tneei
rapids ourselves* and I wondered how Lir we
could met up Cataract Between high riiLurf'l
cliffy, million- u£ older than Ihosv ut
( . li-Ti, we mu nded Milie < Yaps Bend, named by
Powell fur itslfvj
4£t number* uf ctjies kind
pintmrbs and towvr shaped rock* " Then
w1pa - -in i SIicep C aflyqn tthd .1Tv< 2 :
1
its C isle- rn
,
and nosed into rfic mouth of Dark ( anyone
Tlie sedimentary rock shni, mud it up it* tn
menduu^ waih varied from ^Eale blue to pink
[oppflisstej With its t'bn htroln and pncalite
water, itl i n\i tiflfi/4 bathtubs." and wuterfn]ls 1
it tame ,j> .1 ilclighiiul surpribe
Opr map showed Hark 1 anyon afig^auidnp:
iOrfldd mile* eastward into nranaLLni and va-
luidium country Branching Imm it were ^idr
t F-
canyuiii hy Lhe dozen lj?an-Ttii n Black Si •.»•»
.
H urse Postiife, W'wJdtti^htie. We i ould huve
spent a month ixplbriu^ them
ftack an Lake Potvcll, riol far beyond Dark
Canyon, little whirlpwh beirayed the pn --
e h cc <'4
*s li 1 1 itHjmed 1 « k T lic w .1 L 1 t tv^ iLiw
1mi The lake had met thi river
I with in as^tironee l.-orn of laeperience
in readinji 1 hi- rivur. wm an esh liftraring*
almost j hvthmic murse (jeEWceit bO'iri -. gas
with lamurisk juni wHhm .mi L|uuklmR white
be^cheN Then arciund abend, oppu^lti- Siaw-
dk Canyon, wc saw rapids. A broad sand bftf
squeezed the leaping laaling river aniline
the mighty west wall.
Alter making cattip, wc dnnrinl lift1 jacket.-.
Bind Hl'vuLmI iiur sail artentum Ln ihf jny u\
runnirif tbt rapids in the Sport Yak, Jhtfiadn^
tiljsLi’ea.m. ttr nbftniloncd nurse U'-fts to the
doWnblri'nii 1 torrent ,i3- vve buttled to hold .1
safe course between lurking rocks. Whcu i hr
river won and dVerlumwl wc reveled mI hr slrugslc to keep our bead* Above water
Fin ally, after several hours wc flopped u\
liausted on the beiuh- The =iurgiiig poiver of
the river sud the mnjevii of the cliffs above
U-. suggested our insifpiihcance. but filled >with the satisfaetioti dud from ?udi
intimacy with t hr beauty uf uaiure
Veiling I've* S(Hi Npw Blciic^ for (fid
Silt must inpviuilhly fill Lake Powri
(hoimh not in nur umc. The lilens Fnwell
knew nfr llJ re LccEy coin Bui fhousiiiiid^ 01
-iqujtTc mill-- til dtsi rl tvuritJeElaml.hllherti'
M l-> uifiv a few', have soddurily be-
I I hint- available M all.
J have mlkirtl to mr?n w ho knew the river
before the rfftrn m bmll. men who madeihcif living by gitiding visitors on [mat 1 rqi:-
Ehruu^b liten Canyon* Onr, w'Ji>- fought the
iJam, Iuni 1 JianpedhEs mind and spoke eflthu-
siasti rally about \jnkv Powell Another, his
fortune invented Mi a new manna, readily Ltd-
m lit i'll. 'Td willi nszly \a>o it all if C^lcn Cunyun
CLiuJd hr jiut hsEik tliu w ay it wa*”
Hut mi young compAfllims, who had never
-euti CleJfi Canyon before* viewed it ihnut^li
the fresh, enthusiastic eyes of you lb.
“Maybe die dam shouldn't have been
Imsic remarkerl iliijr/ Belknap, ,lbut ttY
snighl% hard to mu urn Glwn Cum no nuw that
Fv« HW3H Lake Powell THE E N n
FiiiieiEi^ HVftlkers In fl plorc yet imtTllier be hiL a dull loW flmni twLi I > \'.L“1 mU'U'Fil -r-.1inicn*
i ,i ri ! ( m 1 Kirk C’nttypn riic j^orur penetristss uttsiHiilcd nmniry. u^insfi Lake PowfJI u
f
|Tw '
"
reochei os sweef.'. mnre und mate will di^CEivwr iti haunting beam y **M*i\mm -
FROM a MIMS Hamm l her neck hung;i tins i Liv image nj xhe [jjfd Buildlm
encased in reddish sold and her ^mile
was Infinitely sWfect,, belching ¥et for alt I
knew she was hkUng .1 submachine nun. or it
batch (ft band grenildes-
Wf shared it slim pirogue from l^sis ;n. n igs
Khe mile-wide Mekong Ww to Thailand
Bfiweift L]^ m ‘Jh-d |»Lsket^ thr Lifl\ said dir
Would uJwe to market in the Thai town of
Thai Pluiirom Cucumber-.. Cabbages Arm-lang iish called jrfqrhpjr
I rem etn be r ed en I i n g t H e rI
pinc b nn ! H I n
Him I :lS>m rein E'en I nj rrij w\va\ a 1 li.n1
1
> ! L< t1
major hud bih! me That ihi- i isinu iei
-
ui _ r rai -
up here, in Thailand* Northeast.. wa* fed
with esms and e\p 3<isive< h roujtht -&£ th*
Mekong in burnt* sarh ns t h 1- often b> just
>ucli ut'ntlf IjirJii-:-.
t . linn A a it Wurks Tttft VVuyi
For 550 miLr-
1
tn: raver forms our border
W 1 th I ; 1 os,J
"
sai * 3 I be maj or*'
'an (
1
11 nfor* lj Mattel \
much of ImIds is controlled by s nmmij lists
I- . cry day those bo^is hack and forth byt hr hundreds Wh-i .li
•
inspect ibvni i!T
^Thfey bring in not only weapons hut
radios, propaganda leaflets, and in.structlrjn^
for the terrorists, And they ferry The agents
who direr 1 the insyrr^-tioti—
'I Iuji men andwomen, firsl enticed to Harmi and t^kin^i nhni'd tin rv, and llu-n h?n| bin k lutnakelrma-
ble. li i:- l:oi kJ that Ament anis air he 1 r to htilp-1 *
Thailand, m turn. Was helping I hi: I’m led
States by providiDg base* for American wari-h ncs t bat daily He?
W
mis*i 1 ms over cmbai 1 1 ed
Vkd \iiiLi In announcing this <tlHciaJI)\ onMarch 'hi1 Foreizn Vhiiistn. :n Banpikiik
>;:id IhJil I hi- : 1 Thil , 1 n il r; I mHuri hiWardbrirtitiiic the trouble in VitH N'ani to an end a>
soon ns [wssiblc
^11 far the l row hie 111 Th . a I and h ad to 1
! nwed"
Il-i- t nrmnmiisr prescription for uW pft
librratiojk,^ Southeast Asia style: Build tip
sloras of food and arms m the jLmgle. Estulj
li.'ih iriiJii ill: camp ior gtiarntla^ Amlm!|.nilkT iind iimiy pal.rols I’oerre villager- to
nime to (urirm^ajida I: :i villiLi’i-
leadrr won'l pi a} aJimg mrarm |inn or kill him,
preferatih right btfftfo the e> e> id hi* |Jcople
In L7 months nearly 100 Thai officials, teach'
prs. dill .Llbd pofkemrln Sim I I .l
sanateid four tune- -v- mnnv a* the veaj
in Mifi 1 1 "i <ntice "M 1 halt been ir.n Tni n
.1 Slllgh: wet 1
in the tan- of t.hi:- ihrt'iil Em Thuilaitd—the
tmifiliamtlly imtej^nd^nt kingdom jii ihc hub•i urhea.Hi a.-li mL.si^ h pngt 1- ibe ! litLed
Glides increasingly supplied its "Wri ,11111-
gu err 1 1 bn rnedii me scmie 4p rniltmn dollars a
yenr in eromirnit .lid, ier.bnti iiuss and iVacc
1 i
r1 1:- i-iJuhtcrJ^. mori? and mnn* niilitafy
men to train thi 1 Thai armed fure^
T n Ihi n c kok, r hi; Tb ai 1 .nj -<itnl , a 1 1 1 _: 1 1 offu-iiil
mill mr 1
lb: n 'ifiSfJiers, after stirtirkinjia pier
tin encampment wbtne the itlshe* ol die
rn liking hrei were -.till Wiirm^ liiLfl dLsi nveftd
1 be bimu^fil dog* mating the garbsuze He said
that ihh was signffiCont-
Why?|LWt;y, we Tiny dn not em dogs Bui ihc
\ letn.ime^ii do“
He |i,iu*wl, Inytd with silvtif dagger, andwohfi nn; ^Ofte mud nut lureoriie uniluU
^ -r _.j
aTarmi^rl. H&tu 1 ai
.
l n ^ tmitiud ldsiErai.! ;ir^ tifu
upw in the Xordae^isP Ahotit 1,500 of i.henin
opep^ting hi buputy of .’5 nr 5 ri They have
thousalkb "i . mpnt Infers, ant] so, umjui -
imnahSy, we biivt' a nmciu^ probleitt Kol llj-
will hee P we ar*B comiuic lo grip 1: with h
Believe meT TtiajliiEid is rill! UuIIi.l! ta hi-
an or her N 'sel Xam 1 r
Hosy Rjmjtfcok Thmbs With Traffic
Traveling the length and bremith **l 1 hai-
JantJ, J would 4g,im ami again encuUnter the
specter of armed inoirsimi and insurmtioii
in oiliar horror area -—
m
ifw notih oexl to
[luiTLui in the ^ mitl'i nust to Mabiy*la But
w id king aliinn ihc bouievaith nf hustling
Bftngkuk—and rioting in an nuiilour nife,
under a shockine- pink umbrella I tiaitnl If
hard h* believe tlud Thailand hud in> pri^b-
lems at aJl r beyond Lhose prompted Ij>’
rfLTTif.i.vni pfB5peri:
ty
Surely the nsoM -.rriktm: of thc-e mjlh ihc
CxU.bc rant ruoIPKr Lraflu \r one of llw uoi.^ird
cTftssm lls, aEon 2 l\j
E cb u.lj i] ri RbarL I c a n'ic -1 ] 1 is-l
tn being tfjiMeued by 11 Wor Mtratte E he
voting Ind> al ihe wheel llr ln d n hejfcuj.liug a
•nflEe thill1 my annoyance evaporated
"ThiiT> exaeUy what 3 mi' tut" >jiid my
+ tot iwpfr i>ii lIieh uhtii^y l>onlerttiniti we tine, nuiluipi
i
'"Re tHirr nn Laitav”K al' 1 1>%al G baoKAPJi id . \ u(L 1=1 . rna•inH rhudalfrl lldfiilr^s t*- Fteolum, J ujje
,l |if-l '•
W K-ilk a Mi nr?
f heerhll ,J> itit I hill 'piri!, t’re.-hh [i.liiiU-; |iam.-nLr dr>'i n l i i r hi , 1 1
1
1 rimii 1 .nr.
-I -lash lhd.ri‘iih>r* rKiiinsi 1 J 1 r Imiwn tarrh. In tli^ 1 1 rn I in» ElA-maJkc r . illtlSftilltjdt Is- i 'Iiuiue
Mai. jDO hmiilics fEshlnEi the; pa|jer sunshaiSc*. \fiy$t Thai live in !LUcb small srtllcmriil*,
.irmmg rrce lirbK fishing l-hi! wutcrwsiys mid often iiracULirg hdnihcimfis un Hn -m-:
; 1 *i 1, S'Ki ET •
rm.
-‘U ?r
! T
I rich cl Ir'FELail When I luld him ibiTUt ti later "1 mean what 1
?,
been ba|i|tti:dng lU'-'L’ in Bangkok! Ij ifteen yvur 1
? ;tk!i ymi
n«W saw o woman driving a ctir And I bat ems^huJ with
llII the traffic and the new buKdiftgtf— 1 0 year* uiyj there
svdh jli
«
i ]lj3ij there bal paaiipj orchard? and bttVc 3 nut trees,
.end rice fields and bufFaloc-
I'rir that ETiiiiier,where went the klauit* ns y^teryestt, alt
those colArfid ennui?, crisscrossing the diy, iFwjjt biui madetravel tipenl* abroad burble about Rdii^kob as t]i<? Venice of
the Ear l* "Wc 1- .
l-1 a lumdrad of them," said I
1
rail i.
Onggetl t aiTiaU Ciw Way to Mreeti
Not Jill ihe< 4umls were pure dclighl „ In btraire: nm every
-
one could Jdte a ctejggvd Hunts But UfWi when most of
them li.nl boon BIM» to widen mads or to make new ottCa*
didn't evrrsbad} complain Jibuti! flip - l''gpd raute?
That very morning the city had opened tin arc him; "My-
r-Vrr" for rar- r in lake Che pressure "IT rnduiuiiri jiinctkiii,
where i\n iMi mated fc.Wffi vehicles jia^ed tlujing rush hour
Niriirhy, in the £G-degfl£E heal, workmiEtt \ mured ednerett
lur turn foot bridges for pedestrians
But who could keep li p with d I the new cars and molor-
cycleis nr with all tbe^e people tmuriog Into Inwh from Til
\11 1tvim e -
r q 1 1 1 1 i (i me a dott all
tile fore spur ns** The capital
o! Thai I.e in I Ikil I 'A ;t'. arrjuMi l
ihr world I ro nt Now York
£ biy. was now a favorite
-tup im aKtbt-ri, r l- r j nu fti gh f ^
M'utr thriM 4 jnrtl^* Airline
ij ixi dnw i l at Di pji Muan _ Ai r
ptirL half an hour away by
super highway,"A year u^o Bangkok had
J, UK i hold nmms up la inter-
mmimaJ hurnti HBindkrds
and b\ the enc3 «i tin: mo ntht*
well have 5,000." said Mrl >ha rm n orm I rile Fi ua hm iih
n| 1 he jmern mental Turn
t.*, L t ) r^iiis i iat ion ofTha i F ,nn i
“iYrhup* wi* have built tom
ttu±n> hotels. I've last count
of them ah Wc don’t even
iry to count the night rtub*"
Most numerousamong the
v i-
1 1 1
1
r - Wert 1 hr Am^ncaik^ on leave fmm Met Nam"More than UUuu a month,* said Mr Dliarmni" ti. “But
1 h i \t. h re’T, > 1 1 u k 1 1
1
. sW „ B. re ht a vail able " H e smi 1 c: clhlTo s
scenes!1
' Thai nfficiuLs liavt.' a cheerful way with tMtip
widely known but ne>Tr, ntver sprlled ciul ufiSrinliy
\ not her na.h tamflist inp -Larri wa> the extent of the
1- S milltjary effort to he F] Thiiiiainl fi^hiihi? Red menai:e
in addithm In M tho-H* American^ fmm Siiuili \ set Naru,
here to enjoy a few dny> of rel.Lvabnn. and scores of mil il ary
advisers, ?nmc iS,0QQ L S serviefmen worr bu^y. wrth the
building fit stran-LUn r-nEfb and comimmi cations netW'orks^
and tht mainlenain t* of yuppi e depots
SI
H* Mil -choked khfnjc h I ! •:
liaru Bar.jrkiik' sislflir « Ply
luififf - ci pnheemem to cn-ntml
1 1 . iftlt Ht ii im.ih from
a IOuj IjLirtfe, imirkti while
TL'iHtn^ts -sbiip i ?ne t tht
VeiU re ert the i^tr flwtifknk
t«nvtrt> mjiffcy cat oils into
-Erc-rL- i • r ib ever i[irrra:dn(!
lihnfei mi’ dut^mubik'.-.
VVat^r sprites lihanp no < h
r
Hi no I "h raya fSiver huiru ui
hwim lib> soon ai L I iry walk
Frc i ri E -yjLri I w ;iF l1 n- lsi vcl r fum
lly-Hf^e liiLlhs.]h i ri" 1 1 Imirb
fresh Iy w.'^tied 1 au nd ry Krwf-
tofj .witenan brinp in Banii
kvA - uvo IlIi^ ih^ii! tih.inm
NrUMHI^
NORTHii r. B:n* Pti4J
Luan^Prahancr,L H&a
vi FTM** HaFig'S**
fciprvq KhmiJinrj HammTonkin
Vshh
-:U T i Kin
Sm
Wl I irar-
*- nri f->ai
S-iMbfi P-. .j- n&ns Qi'h bTfiai PhifiCTfl
r±a. *
l £hj i* ‘P.kin
inq H(i.
MUrnar-cii fiijn tine
KriwyM urnTiTtihraln
P.hgi
-Ir* ^^ui4k _ ftSf
?'•' s;rTFj
Nsthw 5awir.*y Cfaiyufciiiiir*
^4«]' '
I Ji’u.MIl
- *T. iSi-iu
*¥# *-S hl*k>.on /
njaUhaEiiin^ ,4R .Itch nr- .1 i ,!f*J±LMI i *flHn r>vl
b in Thrt.
IfwjSt!! *">'***ia«P*Wttk^A ir'poft
fl§5fCbar
M*‘ ...• i 1
1
*5lPrt"ha bill- fir : i r»q *
*lH Pi Fhitt^a^ .i
a1^4a iChflttHlbtri ’
\ U ,.'L
\ I '-t-r- Ng-np*
- KaT Mt .Jl-T.
PWkU, A’Tivtn Kemf>Of <g Sf
TTtuo*
NAMKtO&L&
*r-rf Riot Aiii
llIrtacTcrf:
AllCk? 'irin C-wra fruc !. an ’akrt-
!fi huizHjb '.iNn*. j 1
Hi Tirfl^Hsti T an
1
. :~ - dji n
E?€ N n Ri
Mj^K Pf.wm0! A Situlh Chimt
ScuGulf **r Siam
* iuraZ. Tho.'
ban Eji Tr- ufirrferb 1
.
.JhgeLcSfliHj7**'
|: fihi!p
Fh <jir r
Jji'lrad
jrjfc m\ nwmo jweat
I fm:n jv.:- u^Aflfr ^£41 Hrt,™ r^QLHjtri
f KWIC"rflDf l££44
jjujur: rCFr.lit ^T7 WiWJ
&ti¥#wupmi‘J.L“4i.Lh!wa B
.
VMjyj!? A*PtM7?,
MALAYSIA«
' FWtS <*7 TttV UiV-T. mm*warm anqwmjw
THAILANDRrit'uHEY ihn r -hiLrlh- like of feu*,
- ihi> tropical fefedfltanffottsied
l lleti - and pJjlim Iflrtd with menutiering
rive** unA-tdiuiIi Hupjttirti a Buridhkt monjj-tcr} h 1 r rvd rj L5 DO ill h uil * : Li 1
1
ta NeW i
:
dustrics Bum in RanpkitkT ibc growing* "jpi-
1ft), ! »u t four ou! u|
five Tibia J are ELirtu
fT-i, for Jim. iJicy
vndrh L-iick
iimi fish Unheardvisit cmIi oslier
UftfcqUr ipiSoulii
(last —nnrt c jJlerl >]me—
W
tM
never colonkrcl by Kunupeanv Friendship
with the I'niltii Sinter btr^LLT] In iS-ii, when
1 hr UVD rmr.iiiiis riffled Jl irnrfc treaty, she
V . S j Bfit iti the Orient in fh-e I. $Air Form faefan unljiu TIilu btu.f- fur opera
r ions Jipins* tar|Sds m Vi-rt Nam
AH* A: rid I4+I'L=1A3'UIN: H.TWl.fH
00 pertenl Ehaa hIsm Chi nor, VkllWtnp. -r um;i. ( "hinirjc .a id Ei j
I
s^r-
a Mil'll- Li-ri.1. feUiLllhsim
\ [ i 1,1 1 lit! nf Jl 1 i rl- L LI - 3m S ( SePI- tjdJj - tt I ! si i Si ^
:
Hirer 1 1 tij rt 1 1 r .L ctdiftnlfced rnrii ilrV^nJ In rke
KttlibcT lin, h lir^, nmrEi, n n rl leak bJmi ncpcFrird
SI ,V| - rd I r I I Kh: JY:i 1
1
„ L -k 11n 1
11 1 ,-i« "iS, I US J, i^jeL. i
i
f liiimii Mai. led; S u^hlilii, rubber.
Hub t i-I S i1 1 j
I
1
1
1
il\is1 A^tji, Thailand brute s
agalvi’L IhrLtiaSoiw from ^twuieiit* nriabSiors,
Ck i rn mia tmt (tuerrilb axi5§ her borders wii h
arEfi* fnr Imiirgeiite—^sedallj atoms dir:
- 5 1 1- mali: N Ev k-LULLE Ris er frontier v. [\h ZoJ£l£
kdi’l S hi nil, only fldka away. broadcasts
infhiiniiitiiiii^ prfipwiuuiii.
Beside. snenr. V £. airmen were
the bifkl flfo/.i 1 h bft&tS ibu! Limn ln;il
mo?i or she bombing mi&Utiiif against North
Vir[ Nani Thailand up to i l±. nett in r lie
deadtle^ struggle of the sEslie^
Most of Lhi 1 hurnt-d jft Li|4r tourist- in
ImiUHLMLi Itangkiik s-cftwrl nom nt rhis. Thi'.v
ivdrritrl that there w.Lh vn nnji Ei to1
The tirartd Prince, th-: Tetnple m Dawn.Elic UsiUetlpriCrf 1 fate Tcmpfepfttie KnnsraJd
Buddha— nil teutpled nui" *aid a tour
I^Lider from i im ntuLti. < hie ofMt liLdii'- .vaink,JA(> r hut wt took so itmns plrttms! L'hfltN
ivh.it iv t- vr come for. tti ba\e something to
rumember”
I- ark MtiL' morning I ; <“i c rn 11 a hetitt excur-
sion ta the famous fforLtinp market aOfuSS
tile wide Hmy Pbrn^.k tin; river dividing
Bangkok from her ?btcr city, Thon Burl.. Tbe
"'SfinUlLQliJiiz Siiirri " by W Rilherl riri,
N.vnoN^i. GKOGRiKmii , iVbciwfy'i F'ML
river w.is calm 1'he boat passed into a ThrmIhiri Wring, |i;l<[ m enery ihai until reremJi
bud been typical ui Bangkok tcm—wooden:
1 1i j * uP ’ill". I ,a : 1
1 ! i : i_ - . - :
-1 . : •
;; 1 . i . : > i _
Icttfed greenery everywhereIn tbrn lin;i ,> ivurncn wndur^ broughi 1 hr
fltail> shnpplup in the dour ut ibr Jdonu -u1>
h*M I *irw i fv—vtge i l 1 1 1 1
!
i rui \ t ire. rharr u J&l
( pnagts 76-* i t "J acre w i- wo i p .uu| - pittiHg of
red streaks uf betel mire Lind here were we,
chiirnmEt the- iv.uerwiib our tm tor Uur wakejostled a imman and her floating notion shop;
her ra^nr bbniu- nearh went nverbnard
t Asked that wrIWp, and I ai>> Ji mi tfofL ITmwmiraM; ^aid, “'It in very bard to -ta> ileur."
Ctgareltes C«iS 1 liree Eloun' Pav
We clattered kiln a narrower klone. pa-1 a
ge ner.il >( ore on stib -. A tilde int 1 w .,vn jj i:n t-
inn Lieumri ric desmm on 3 coffin in a coffin
-Imp. We |mkt:d iitmnd ^til] aiLuLhcr earner,
info bedlam: a wider kla^ h butsDcoipstedwStli htaiis ihin a pf»litcmun hud to direct
sraffiL' fruTn :i barei1 (page K0| Betuthf S'iUrif-1
boats tied up .it am eimrnuu- biueaar, oil'cr-
] ri \i undt-r urip Nrui .d! die kim kknuL kery 1 had
seen ?i altered alonfi NVw Read, over in Bangkok— blued and enuran d -dver
ailed niello ware, t^ak elepbjint>, datw.ire in
sr^ld-coUirerl Thai hmlneJ was pinned ngabut a dn-plny of jvblmitJi r
Lisa Thai silk. A lady said+iiHnwr expensive
Slw 'A iL- i mm Mnisysk 'What a lumt^iln,"
said another Jady 'itume :n Kansas City it
wiuild be ftnir timen hs much I mujrim', ;sM
wflven l»y hand
"
That, of c ti iirst* _ wtis precisely why it iva- :i
bargnin. 1-ibur wus nut e^iinnuivr here, ma-i hinenj w\l-. Tbe average wuac wxls J baht an
huur. or 10 ci-ms; ,e pack os Falling tCitin ananttSes, mrob on imfmrtcd mar bines by rwJ'hnlSnnrl 1'nbttceo Mnuopoly, ettsi *> liahtt
three boui^1
work. But ibt^ boom wels stirnbg
the ! Libor markcl
“That's l! 1 1 1 have now% fi«r maid H
" said an
American busmessmait back across I he rivet
at the Royal Bangkok Sports Mob*'! h L‘ diime^Uc? e® into the t?ij_ Fuctmio,
l.imnlitin in the Sity T -in Am^m-im-marlt
NortlirLip t o jelol tIieRo>'Lil L -u Mr borni\Vcep& nver Bangkok While W.ilb rJIC hike
the GraUtd Putarr, hurit In 1^2 R^rr
,i s t hr bpjcrl ui l.hr citi hi : ipi i n drd. Lh- llj I hr,.
Muit Ground ovtrffow& on huliilnys wuli
-Iiii-t i, j--
1"ijien-ai^ ^Cttlks-. spcefiV pl-LVL'rn, Aim
: r i rbfi- S| ui i 1 I -i|A il 1 ) iwu, fait
ctraund . -yr, i-Vt I he l j I > froOJ Tlmn Kiln
n^w..-wv r> mm c’^rn £ > i i
umn V V- fee •
MON// C: H A , ... fpM- / hi
iHT Ij§jr®4 » « "^r
|T
“Tt(
jn 1^4
*
V - Ip n i jHl _^+ +i 1
fe m |
p 1
[J| |^^Hu_"
^Hs^Hl - '"^hf i
JBlK|^fe^ilQli> - H, 1
L ^MhJl IBl JL
Firestone iirv<, kuv-C j- Vac ElustiUfejtf t but I n lms,
Fi .rctnM.st tees: tenin.yisu aameiLMy ^lrrJIcnrr
wus with me seven years,, now hr earn‘d three
limes as murhtdnvine a (rack The Iruth
driver became u ennt opjCM^i the trtute
optiratjpr vi enl inm ji sarttuc as a mechanic,
nnd the mechanic is I.let'ornins an ertjpn£fcr. 1
Cell you
,
dtis cotmirv is. on the rowv*if a
Hls business was the promoting nuw mil
lets fnr Aim1 ni .mi pnxlu t I*—rhemkaJ rat
killers, kihoiLitor> c^mpim- m . tibdjfle jlieing
knlven "IhuM. Year” he va\d. "Thai imports
From thr Lulled Stales win if up I lb percent
The opiiuEtunities ate dutstiOidkg
1 hid finncrijilivt^t lilce fllld Bfiuty
Thailand—^dtiu* -tili call it Si,tm— is ;ui
dtijtstandlng cniinin tftj*edVjtjtrlh& the siiv of
Ttx^r .
l
n i J the biitfscst expurter of ri . * in I'
world Queen SirikiL ev ei nidiunl w hen S
wmi hoi her during receptions* hafe and
visits to students, is widely reliaxded as ihc
moil beautiful queen on eurth, arid in 1 'i:=
Mias Apikira Honp^akul vya* crowned Mis*
I niverie. My Mtffl-d Pri.nL said Bithtikok had
the fietrtil rMOthrrs-in-hkw anywhere.
To me- a symbol of Thailand on the tnavc
h\ :l- the gfjptntk planninK nw*Fn of Mt, Pole
San^ ml the Minister m N^unal l if vi+|i*|s-
tmnh Around ft AO-fcoi Utble stood '
I micro
phones, ibr meetlit|p of plannees; illumiruiicd
map^ on tfearivalls Era* ed the progress of wurk
on roilds a rail daiHfr^H^n WhiU die 1
1
1 lM’i n u r-
i jlH the ecnnumh infrustnicttire.
* For ihntj nrtd for education. welt spend
GGG^GCXhOOQ in the nest five year^" said
the- mini.-ter " Sonic nf this monqy wil conn,
from hunt*—fiom the World think ,icul the
United Nidium, aml from the l S.jLiih,,md
japan hut IS percent will come flmni OU2
oh n tuxes, i nar own hutknsl incurne.”
Then the mi Mister turned ti i photograph
of the BHumibckl Dttflfc' o 1
1
mi Jen oorih pi
h.i:i-k^k (page iu :i, which ln'^un opemilng
three year?, aao f,Our likiitu^t public invest-
ment. Thi* dam supplies eleirtrkiiy for the
capitid tu sacr in the niir condition erf tor this
room Most important, in r he dr\ il
enables u^ tip irriauu: anpjther null tun acmkemtjmber, hJ visits -m we had .M, 4511,110(1
I
iL-nple Nuw it4?1 mure than '3it,7SO¥OC.iO.
^Thailand needs 'mdn^tjrhtj pruwth/' the
minister .i«!'k,il. "but we intend In stay prt-
ifisirtly :ue jlk tic uh.itml nountry Ue want si"
Hidden chanires. We want tutTuingiff |p5duii3l>
icLiinin^ our tradhlpTUi and customs, hut
kuviiiHL-' up with ihe qtdi k-muvitij+ wot Id. The
: r i
j
h j 1 1jj tl wurtl L- than ^ . i i m foi v nurseli
l said I would Sure tMK'Ukrh, within I hr
hour 3 ruu head un into an old 1'luii ytrstofri*
m ;l barber -.bii|ittVutl vhnuld have your l-ut-
cleainjdr iiajd tile laaiberBTf st i^n't cfeme at
k'u^t twk u jl mopth I he ihri tu ihc uir could
make one -jo deaf ”\ -aid Ku ahead
1 3 e pul h'i I over ft u
\
u r^e riec k I .imp u n( i w i
jt it
tn wurk with delicate lonji-^leimmed tunU.
J. i :-1 7rvine Ihem gave mr an eerie sen San nil.
Spou n . i- h s settpi net r s
, c u l e i.. r i I
j runj i wjdt
Sfre.un e rv of sw 4 1IjBWs-
^illibuistted .Ltuun*i Elip
LiriEhl lljthts- eaf
perch nbflrtflfr husyY^wun.i
Hm4EI Aruuml ihifti flush
in (’hilsE^/rb.'b!,
Li. 1 1 Fripli'h- Jdore ihwtt
Imlf ^i milticn Chinese live
iri i h.t- Thju < nph ik where
t
I
kv rlpiminalc IvaAx
\ ?iE i ^ e tvmp kkl i i i r i s l;
i\t I he f>T I n j E^tutkuk
> kelp. White .ijbjianiJ free
uHreshmiinls. rU^tomfif4,
\pari£rtln for rin^ wl th
Thili uippillrcH anil ntJjLtj
hydrogen perns ide W:m- !sh 4 crac kk, fickle.
LiurV 1 t hrmghi tin eardrum Junl keen
shredded Then the ^.unjh crashed Into ilie
11 1 her cm"DuiTl vou feel belter fidw?" .liked (hi bur-a
brr It hwj ii joyim* ii-dtng. Ui baawbtfth
eaij back. No wonder the Minion of Health
wm asking for a new law—that public lwe leaning; hi 1 lunc b% dfirtmv only
Another tradition, one that seemed here n*
s-t
:
l> mu !hanj2Cd . w 05 l- x
|
iS^ii ny 1 1 a « me h ^ 1Vas i
r
a* w l* entered a -a tearoom for -pirn bmises.
'Tvery plot of ground hilt .1 jsfiirlE,’' lie
yAid. “When v mi build 1 h'liisi 1
. mj murin'!
drive tht spirit .iwllv* i?t ytiiilt met1? misfnr
nine So you jrivc ihe sptrff tk house to live in,
out of an the oa^l iarii(!f.!
l a seone os minmUirt1 stone buildings
on prdcrfal>. each it foot it two Sung and
k-d tptOtUy like init-E of the ttmple5 in
town while column^ all .tmtmd; 'cvvral
>1r-. |i! ^4hli;d rOi if-. null* Lkh i[i .iiimMllt litre!
tn ^r«n md red md gold- Tin-. spirit houac
vendor said bussness wits be! ter than ever,
thrasil -aid- "Vbu don't fhrei I one os heiiuii-
fuf os ihe^e The spirit will s as in lut} Hltle
hfuiH N. as lung a* you invite him proper!) Yotl
put in dolis. a- servants and yon offer fin at
sind i license Some people do thU once 4 day.
U s a way nl [isaunmi protection'
.-Vide from thbi course^ oiie mu-i .wok
ways <*1 miLkins: merit To mitke merit Is the
mba dLTfily L 01 Luted tradition uf nil, Howmuch merit one m.maizes to ncaim til ate deter
mines how one fare:? m this Hfet and in what-
ever rabrtCFU'l' rrij^ht Mi cup after t ti Lit
Merit Eiinvrrl by \ re-c-Jtig a Birr I
1 ini- maki merit by doim^ - utu-e I l 1 j 1 i| .is
l* li i.i n h r I By rdeadtiu; .1 i aped bird, for ox clmV
pie I often saw people buy bir 1U- for a ha I it or
twci, so they could sue them true
Merit m ib. highest L> rnnrlY b\ >buwi 11
devotion 10 the Three Jewels—to the Lord
Buddha: to In-* tem S 1 a r 1 s-
r
,(he Dhumm^ and li-
the Sungftin liii' Brotherhood bf Monk* This
h done in uncounted ways in ^Thailand, where
90 percent uf the people nvmv eagerness to
live up to the Mhainmit They go h- die LUO 1
wtits. ur mon^terEr*— louriM* UMuth lhII
them temples—to brinp flower? and incense
ami coddles, and !u put gold leaf un n hundred
thousand ima^efi of the Lord BuddhaMen her nine biiikhkus, or Trmnk.v by ihe
tons 1 1 E tliiimiUMls yihi see Elirjr - .1 3 L r m rubes
evciywhert: A man nan tosOy leave Lhe
SaTi^ha. hull 1 hi: irnurmuUs mpriE he has Hi tide
by having been a rm-nk will --I .lv with him A
ws
(.0 vainer silk Eibmirtitx i r. i ii .
\
iMu-riiiin
uJld^inil life- wai|( Ir it ft bolt fNrP 5«u^ Th.L*
^ilk Thmu^huijL liu-.Eltna Itnni'kii-k. himif mills
Latter as .irtj-an- spin nnv 91I k ,tli-u n du tL;uid
Weuvr ^(locllbi1
1 ItlwiL*. iffEcu iijzSfans wjl|i
jnlil jillJ silver. The -Trai l hurE^imi’ iLiJu-f U'urJ-il
War II W'hcii an ^jm-rkoii, Jcinw-s Tlmnipum,
QCg^rrlred 1 hf indit' try 4 ml i mrLH I IJ Ltr I 1 lunik It
tbes and impoivt-ri -hiLEcLe«.
Siner i\w l JiaitanO hit1- wek'tnncd
/unnT(jt hi Wpslenwn are ralli-d Engineer-
liave romp from dir VnthcrLuiih, l4 ^->tr* fmmh'ranrp ariJ Belgiuiai, banker^ and tdiu dtdif
Irvtti Britain .uni f\ 1 h 1. ! «r - .ifirl jiUrt hlirtlrit^ii i'rnm
Hie United Sldti^
Hi -t-knnwn luraciiT hi Wr-ai rru-r w.i- Mi:
VnnjB f_erHism^n-. .1 Hrir Lt-I. govern**.-. w\m>crdmrinuctrtsdl PTcperient at die lbth-tcejturj;
Mill ii K.iIei- EV ir i.un I iLLTK-iiTDl I-.Lri.lur:
fKiycl Inriir urrrf tin' krtii; i?f ^iaW -It- 1 llif
mU5lC4i! orni nmihul future -''Tlie Kifta .iJ-jiJ I."
\ .i s t,
i d spray- ,i I mi.sjii n'iUh ,v
Siitfti Moturji iiruJ Nksun Co.. I i » k. . hi Bai^--
l;ik P whiTr workmen ajaarniblc cars andI ruck* i rum r^mpOiKiih marie m Japan
Kleturfel vprtnj: up in fornwr rkv fhshls onihn fiulikhtf sjf Hu? ciipElLjj ll-. lias
1 ThitE dr
rniUiri mnfi i^fKhls
I' an ilii i J .
i
l ijue-i IjjtuK, .in arli-.-n !
r hsanE Mai her hand a* m bradi. Foj
i hei rfiTUB-hi'inonr| wadr-, u n mr. n fir*t \i i'av
r
luimlHXi Jnln bnuU ^ndl trays Thun,
lis on jj:« afscmhl> Ime, ihc wnnrs mcrvi.- from
hfnlst ln> hailsc, and nefcsthbof* £uV?f tht
irarnt1.- wilh .1 bJiii k misluri1 of r!uy am I Lax
,
Li jgc'.ally harvested rrs-an i Hher Imncfs &9pd
and polish ihc -iurlai e Finally, layoff of red
paijfil I jijLIcI u hard, shUmjiIl hml'-.h
With fe-ct for a v-tac, -x carver - :j i ; l is j lca+.
elepItaiiL, yi-rnSjul of Thjiliuid. From (hr
luindirruM uiXEagr 1 - near CfiLiup Mas ai-j-
frhmi Urnnw ima^fv nf the- larfd Hudrihkn
tpinpfa hells, ehith doll?, pKifn', fftbrk^. and
iik^fWMr madt1- .from mEil Buww iliiLn-.v
v\ star from i .ill fori Li it said 'hn'C st s,,jd. so
m iny able bodied mm dpi rig noiMmr" Kentd
of my Thai friend- etffrwd this view Ptaslt
• asi Hit rsirtisk renounces Lht world ;tnd
cultivates the spirit Tu that is the highest
type of mttn
"
Doing scmiethhiji i!tKttf for the monkspavi n li 2:he ni respec t, p| i tyr fi g t hem u 5 1 1 a 1 hc
thing! tun JU'i'll : - i' 11 1 LJl"l ft
- STliik 1 1 1«.
fc_L!-10m
ill mjiiu .1 rumiTiapy .11 .i house uarimnu or
m u fretttfon. .it the laimrhing of a ship, at
thi upentng of 1 mi\\ hutd. 1 san it at tltlJ
mmlishtu: of ll Ibis ortmtivc
Spiqm t|is locomotive, lc blue* and white
dfesdi made 10 tofntfi, s% riuJri 1iljLI :j nrwl-
*1 licrhtlcd cstpj c>_s 1 hi it^ fir-1 trip mnsi B.ieil
koL iri \ I ; li , 1 > - i .1 -jinn 5t*J mfirs tu thr -iriiilh
Holy Oil for Dic-Srl 3
On Jt 1 Jit is airing, ftu 1 im> k, nmt 1 u4iiup-.
U.ji I I il'lti iiu^ for milt arn-iiL- A white Lot
*on cord -<r retched fmm monk In mfjnfcplhett
m ^ foot -high 1 1 r . 1- - image ofinB IjnvllimidJui,
.it ni U1
1 to ii btffldJinliL high all tilt lui uClfcoUvu.
“The toed transmits ll good intlueim\1
said
;s senior official or the St^te Railway.
l-i rr ti-ntr an hour the monki. chanted.
fXjNMihdhSt* llw lihaniTn. mil bte&sitiK tbr
anointing fail Another official slid on hi" knees
from monk tu rmiilfc. relilhirg s hrif ten Liip>.
Tin* general m.iiLaeeE at Lht ! Luhvay
mQptd .1 bidder rhpjiHed a finger into the
silderi vessel vyith the bftwd nth and (tabbtid'
r.iA *pots btlnw the |lH OllHittvi-'s btEbdl^L
Then nine milmid c™. alive* kmjli bd'mrv
I In* 1
1
.
l
i•
I . . 1 1 'i I .1 Iidi'iJ tu .1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 k l l1
1
1 . 1
-
' . > I i .i\
with merit-making mfu-: n laiua blossom’
1 .u i :1c,- .mil nLatches; a toothbrush and taolh
paste; a bar of snap and a towel; n fao* of
detergent Jim I u roll »ij urfleL papfri
finally i.hi. m*iucm monk -jirinkh- d Lilt---ed
water i -1 1 IJ all V we I It. t 1 ri 1 s I if 1 1 1 c e >. l'i ij
ilVfts siiifl, “! his w.l- j ]
3n^iEeei: for meAnd so. on the following fnurrtirig, whi*n E
mw TTinrik* wyJk abgtlt fat lbi*rr diuK tf.j (her
me of timLnvhmeiLi- -tairly, before thy irafit
ru.di beeian I knr v. that 3 hml been wtooj* uti
think Ihjjl they wei,
r tH!^e.tini. I’eojile were
wxulinfE for them. It was a privilege tu put
Sood rntn their tKiViJs
To I hr Thaj. fswd ddcojob tow; til-c \i* it su
murh lo the prince perhaps, of She Wefit-
ettiMH- EngHsh-sf^aklrig elite oj Bw^kok,nr 1o the n.>p i.nn^ middle e Ul^l-- hill to the
s1
List majority.rtto eat" h Hit kou, pl
io ear
ricf,wWhatever eJ^e one eUAi—fish 11 r meal
or fruit He kmzT
Euerallj H wcth rice
"
Th* rice is steamed nr hni!ed t and -piretl
\uV i
1 f MJ
1 1 F HI 1 Iftifl
Land of 1 .nrd Bn(]illui: ! hi-1 ton mild Invgn
m W.jt Trimitr ]ii<l until raceEiUy unikt a i'rjuUin*L
ni plaster, applied Ciinpirio ;mri tv f<Kil Invade
m
ll!, pi ;.:
lii- HtUtfri* rrii kedf rrVeaiine tfir iruite-
utc rVileriitii voieriite both the precniasi onHisnl
iin rl 1 ls ]huned 1 1 ! bulv^ir di ih f 11 H&0& 1 1i*nm p .b it |i
npl umi'd ml inn-tleH enanJ ill l- Textile tif the
hmeritkl Buddlm: inMdi1,tin- fbi 1 hen^h im-
vther iiniini*— trf preen jaiper-^of I he Indiafi
print'i .aid [iluln^'fihrf urhfiv nmliE
1 lieir way oJ 1 1 1 ie \ follow*1 1- 1 1-iy- ve^ per±» ibeIow:i
it N fltiffth and inrenHr ftt one of the- rmiriLn v
:? (K"i <it mnwosimt^
4HF *»HI. '11 l-S III.H- I
r<p tI .ni. ni i-
with £Le
E
i smiccand chill -Mi, wIxal rite' Listtm
"The rice of TlndLintE I ins grains dial are
loop ami dernier—and hard, sti they won i
break wink- htimi fftfehtd in llir nrill Viler
i urjk iriii i lu’> are ^oll .ieh I painLahie, -wtetime? aromatic ... the Uv§ t rice m the wurlrl
Tin Ii if cmirsu 1 am a Thai/
1
The speaker wus (>r Salu liysanrindiL,
trirecinr General rtf the LiepartBiept of RufJ lr lull I mu- i j *in ' yiiurs ago ho had vLtidiod
11 latjf hrefdiit- ai Cornell, ami hr gladly
ji/brum kdgtd that hjy old piufeiwtrTDr
I -Eitr r> M l a}\x ."in d turtle I* * Thailand to hcd|
:
matt Thai rut wh^t r was The RocfcefcIJef
Ko^ndatian was heEpmp now But mtuidy ii
vl. 1- it r rad it ion of careful selectuin.
1 > : “We hitvt alwwy* had a rice surplus* »M
we'utf Hied ohh Hie vert- best for seed, them1 1
way we breed our fighting cocks and oirr
Fightinu fish And how do you like out rit rf 1
l -ilr il with austo, fitld i n 1 he Thai mannerT
fork in Hu- left hand,, jwrti rn the rinhr the
fork pushed the rki1 iulIm the ^hul
Rice Fields Hk's^ed by Mntfe^i River’'
just am thr overwhelming majority uf the
Thai tfve W tire, ‘” i nm-i of them live hy
liFuwini: it Rice strw> in dll the rive p.m- fir
Thailand, in t Jiir north -> ii I in the <iljl 1l jei thr.
northeast iwd the southeast. hue must andof all in tilt pari known as the meat uen-
Lf;iJ plain Here w liter ir? suppllifd in plenty hythe river < 'hrm Flirty a [map, j*ape S/j.
Tin: Thui prefce the cianjjes of their gmd
Hvbrs u'iih tb<f word namm— ui
water*.' or "mother river” Pntsit and I seL
pul by bout lor Rudr t hiin, a vilLige ml \\w
dm qI Mol ber River Ctwto I 'lira) a Sir. Herhin t HiLIh)*, 4n juithtE.i|iviIuj£^i fmPi I'-diffir-
id% I mil i gif I mv a to- Album Ham* C'hjui.
In that v ill Liar lie had heard parents i
ftwp dirin'l like rri ^ivcihcrrflliflifceji medicine
that offended them, It was lieUer nut 10 hurl
I lifir feeling
Ur hind wen babfip* iiiih two week* old
pfltty gyldfd by their mother* lu |hlI tlu'jf
tim palms loeetltur ami raise them tu t lav
forehead, iri the traditional Th it njesfcure of
respect. A* they J3TCW older they would learn
ilia difTemil diit^ree-* in tire t’m-ehrai] for 1 hr
Luni Ihlddha «ittd for monks; to the ekim- for
oJk-V sUf ivriuE^p for one's inferiors lo the dieiL
Most imporLiiiL tilings niu-t lie .ypihuA,
‘‘Thar's kiiMLillj imndmed .is'inn.,' " Dr l*fcuJ-
lips hud told meT “but it men ns ;i Ini more thim
amt * Whatever b rmuLinuLdEy worthwhile is
^aiLiik—aoim: In u mil, harvesting rice in ii
funviviid Lir^.u|
•, hutting with a no*y drangisfrom A merica
Ami jie nie rf.i-, 1 onr avoided cmhiirr^itiL'ht
. Vi «lhrt> ind Em nne^l| That1
' u h\ imc
gigged md mid mm prn r,irfnever mind.
whether a tie minded or bioL That's win/, in anl'N'l ii Usually oidy one i^ulidaU1 fur
village headanELii If there were iwu, !he io^rmijdu be i^anpstd became he hud Insi
The man whn won rmsaht be embarrassed
loo Didn't tin: very Id etc <M‘ a tompe-tfirir
i * -# «» pp r.h* rrmin ( tu
Siting jerk' In a (fettiEicd »n-ftn lieat, si I l-.i [ i . « . iri (irpmu i
•>
lEanr-- |rii,
pL
, .l! i :^a i^h r i tub in Bilflitkok, wile Pt Wtelifti rime- Lind Btidnfin-
rrnrn hi'crywliere ihcv Liu, the exiiberufit Thai niuke their own ftUti iterr,
an Ament an shitviceman an iv.xvvm njfht. in Thousands uf UnitedStalls f^faiiiuz TiMdli Imve fbuifil rtsl-Jtnd^rcrrcntkrri leaVP in Thjidnnrl n
in f Ir (inn, break from die biuudy cewflirt fib \ u*l Xnm,
With iofricute geittirtiL wd itudied pftc^t Btudcuti of the /.aAiipt^ .1
I Lif-jiji ii! rJ_Ln
r
l--i I rLimj1 f«L^ hr-tq anil In rmn*'' in liie fi trbt hetWri'n h
r+d , 1 n • I
einl HpjiviJy embmiiltretj 4\k tannine imitJitc die tejrplrmJi'tit ilro^ Wornin roy ill I'rsinte; wherr the Jjtktjn hjD bnsn. (.jcrfomir'l int ciinluriK^ fVjr
11
1 L-. dliil* irL ;k rcidjUimtll f Lhp itiinfrr-^ .uJ 1
1
)~>C thf Urns liriTi--i ihn?rr-
jiiiEls of the folk >itibrrrv ut northern TJmilarid- ^5
National Gfograpbic,
Juh,IQfii'H
• i 3 nii.li! . 1 1 m JO l a persons I 'nnypctCTlce?
The stfli lioDSi af Bsing C]um rose in >l jil-
r l1
ri
1 1 c l ii*ters u! nnu k
1
11 r i li’- t
!
l
-
i r It'd mto the
(Hds where the green rke ^load three feet
Ibovt the w;iler line
\\t- Mopped far nifitt m klanu *ifc iVd widemil turner! imt nuEhumi! mnlor afl A r n .
-
a-
-
while ecjel flapped up
The silence wi> total; ut first.
Thm I heard hec- Fish jsumptnp. Twokind* of birds arguing Vtsfi'o tci Mir hub!
Yokes io the left fiSU Suirirrbm'h chr^milbonnJ Or Phillips hm I n't told tne what anoisy [iimt thjt
Prasit pulled up a chunk fltf w«d“This tr juvrr I me it when 1 was a boy,
Lei \ have .sime iH
IE wnf crunchy, dighily bitter, .iimusE
nulty N’oi budHr pulled up .i Jtitus linger and pudeil Ihr
r-rfiTi Nnl bud either MWt? run ;il>o eat the
reeds” hr said* "and the morning glories"
We rhmEiZL.'d on Ei> .1 fiutuK muni palni> mujduck* A hi Me Apr! named Sumalec w.l* lining
soaped hs her mother. thru riu-urj Ln the
^rteni?h-grcty water at her door si ep. She wortearn ugh, a mm. k
L
1 1
1
. and two bracelets, all
gold* and a belt and ankle!:. nt silver
Ili-r little brother wu* getting a liamui,
I'linr the father. The boy was dn-wd to a
stmiff. I t. went utruimd his wui.st.
f ie go! tt when be was -.u k. ' said the
la! her “1 fis body WlIS V€T> llnl + vi sii- IikiL
him to l hr vv.it I"hv Inrdublini pul ihh thread
art.' ms U him und now hi h well* \tu*L chil-
dren t^oC. well that way.
SuniaJre wm having her face powdered by
her mot her, in make her sfcm beam ii id
'The lighter the skin, the mart- fitiautifuL"
her mother said, '-When we nut min she
sun, 'A t put oti a hat or a piece of doih "
l raid in Amrriai we like to Ik in the muh.
to gt'E tanned
“ThntV vmr interesting11
said the rm’dbrr
“Why <lo you dn
I said wp think it’s healthy:; H make* tis.
hiijik -irhkfcit
Sum.ilevV mother Arid,11Well. I Hunky our
skin is very beautiful mo.”
Ivuk mid Oil bring Wealth to Aurlh
An ttvcrnbfhl IfaiP ride UwJk me Em ChEangM,n the sectunl Jargesi 1 H> in Thus LutdT the
big town nf 111* north
tSangfenk Jias 1^6O0tO(X> —t.TiLinsz
Mni barely "S.fMXl Bm then the whole rountry
lut:- Mhl- d:% tuWnr- of rimrir tliaji 1 ' n -1 Some10 tnillicin Thai citizen!, liw in I ho liilages
The iiurtb has Itislily forested moutULunH,
-iirnr of them 6,000 feist Huh. w ith much ttiik.
This beautiful wood tuts mffih 1 he sleep-
u; 1 h I ec I ol d h ^ 1 >f t
'
hi&ng M a 1 i nn v \ \ l<- i ti 1
north .thri htiii oil. fcinH a new refinery, (ibod
rainfall fnslrr$< psod tqbiicco m well .ut rice
3n 1 be valleys four subsiaittLil rivers flow
together to ftumfrle nfttn C fa ttu Lhrayel C"hi it ng
Mai nestles on thr Ping Kiver 1 arrived
(t'ttntitfifffd I OfJ)
1 I IL ™ ;f* '9 IIIHFIK I I liUjl *— . If t pvi_ . .(_
\njthmii gilt's e.U'1+pl bdifcig i j 1 .1 !’!uj|
boxi oil mast h Fti-r . IIm W5. h - ts, and knetfs
fl> to * *ei iris hijliL it irlc^ pi in 1atv ufI r< 1
11 h L
<«|i|KfFi^iE vt jthtn ihvi' three- minute munch.Corr3 Broil nd bkep» hulth uoodduikr hiii in ^ S|>cji tulurn \h& k lo tfijs lefevised
ti^iiL -il Tbjiukftiii(irn Siocfhirn in Bant:
kok T hiitnn^ bel heavily ihr^iiEi'orni'
In a calm Isefnrr Ihr. di-fi|, rom-at l ’dorn pay immiige Ltirir
lu.irtier-s 1 ntf invoke the of ‘pirn.® he
fnre ihv < Tsst: rueged hustinn^l *|*art
KJCW util (if ihi' up;iijmci‘L '.'SuMr-sn liL'iiiinir
ol medieval wars A Dm: lime
stacklrd their h^iwi binding witEi biukenuLlss, "if eumiIiIc fi.i both
n
I’ll I! yMi:.li Lit li ii hw cpc!L muvi'H Annr rrlt lm .1
lihh-procen^nj; plant near Banskik. Ltm“. 1 1 1'
u
m nan 11-1 J hi Ialxtffcii4 3 ti net fidifr. Th43
w timtn adjt$vt i^iilv in Ehr^ 1 ontinicttun
work \ hm aeefim pim^> ifoirir natirui^ -jmnU~i '.v.» 11 J irii hi vln.hljf ill inn.
Raw wmtud »if .L iwiv-nii road m.j,i
junjdg^'uvm'cl hWl% twirl he&il ni Uun.i'kjik,
Manning h t S mmIt bukhluxrr. a Th;u
dflVfcT Uiebir4 iis jn AlrWrii ai \ MFlilir:
l.iJiE(r> ihr. imj-IJi wm 4 ^hiYp'ihHM fiNlliff.
11 h'i iht I" H Aril!: V I 1 > if!-
5 tif l'.Elipi-
Jlv t' i- *,
lhe Thttl llnviimnii'ol fiftht1*. 4FI
Afrrirftiietl Fund Dewing lineal jfiruurain
to bind the hititerJumls to Hanpkuk.
H.i-iiFhl rtf hcvtMn^ij!—Uiih-r 1 ri > : flnv ui>u
OiityerJ W'j th kt—cools li L'oo^t rueiiwiil wcsrkrt
Rtiad-bu] 1 1 1 1 rag Vault sipsa (muled smft dri rs k
Jfi
. ' pa
Il'iJJIflllll
1
I
1 lll|U(HHj!a>tl ! MID SM> > ^-T>E~i
^rurri-tNt’n] uuinitri* irftfu* fctntidnm. t u iU» i-i.h - *
tjf ftanukok bunki fJri'rtiitji.T illfilgflt Difci Imnlrmi
jpfola smtcil mlh ei'Mcl murk early fiFantincs riprninft in tfar
dn .‘icii-* itn Vilhutr tin* Kir lift flkitiu WmftfWBv
nit Lift lLip.n thy am r iV—tnueltl :ihad.
tn a (treat miftoiml nt u .il i n Mi Mjpj1
, monks bkss aml dis-
iribuSf ypzA riififM Utr ^.nn lieiI I'luiirtni: VVShu. lamllafr i\o
mrth i/i w'imtr baTie>i. that tnobf cu-Ctfe \ kikt> n Mirtilu>
that matip-i ni.ili.inrl; Ibr worEil'? leadilnf? nrc incfii irk-r
an Lbf day of lay krufk^iig, the festival whenpeople id l iivt:j Thai hind make nr hisv litile
i ! i
>
m,ii -h. wjtfr indies on Lhezn Tbainl^htpunder
ihv ini! muon, everybody *cl his float adnfl
urt wi Li Lever water Wan hjiiuK-*
A- I looked Imm a bridge At t 'hnmi- Mtil,
thoLuands >it fifi.ktTii.ru; floxsr = made the Pins?
River Li -i'll of candlelight \ young man told
me,L|
Tibi's how we final awav mir bins"
Siiid the lord -ihbnt 41 Wat Phra Slru^b,
"This is not really a Builillii^i festival, and norrmnks lake pan But it due* nil harm *thv
mlentkHts air good,!
He w:i> the c:i d t >ia^i i r:rd povariinr of the
north* in trluirgr of 3*442 vrats andmonks. Hr hud jnbt plauid tuM to thf Eighth
( Vittosnctf of I he Wur kl Fellowship of Bmi-ilhi^L? He asstired me, “RurMfctitiHi b it; well
estiihlithird here anywhere,a
1 stayed at the Railway Hotel Chians Mai
Haul four other new Note]- beenuse more ondmint? hniHs.it were timing, lo visit thu t'rai't
villages nearby the ^fik-weavTiiK village* the
silver village, the kiiuhrell-a-Tn&krruz vilfsme
rpaee 7'd. ihe wood i Lining vitLme, the vIH
littfe that! ast hmiizc bells and imiup d the“i
. j. i , . . .
Lard Buddha I EjTnewsmen looked forward10 it bsm;er airport, for jet airliner^ hj that
formalime** on urtuind the-world flights, might
stop oft her*, i-PStoad of ,ir Bangkok1 fn I Sowed the fimrmt rmin all (he w;iy up
fu ihe vOlage ii the Men Irihranuin high
fthnvi, Chi Aug Mai There was a fund,narrow
Imt -»i
! u I'jililr. an r I Uio view of the valltvV
Was glorioiLS
That day brought a lot of visitors -o
Fre rich mac 1 1 : i n r\ $al e?m : i u t Spftfthh Je^uiu1
1
callPe breeder ft urn Bavaria- Ml had « am-era*. They were delink'd with iht Mros'
black costume* and Him
v
y silver flfcefc pietesL
A M«» woman grinding corn told her little
mrl, 'Mink’ for the nice photographer"
HuiVk III titudy„ mI. i of i'll discipline viv-
RiW ‘i \fHi i Mi tEucLiilttsl itumk in a Liny muni1
1
r \\ ,i i'hni -siuzh in f hioli^ [VftsL I Ati II
I hai rmuik-, lie liriwnd* «tl Ijiymui for rkt«od
Bad Farmshm^ Lmler no oblii*aii(jn, henuiy z(iiVB liieijmc Iiijvi- Mm. irn-w
i'H_d, biduilinj! Ihe b i n?n wfn^e portrait
hanjF ti&dt the ceillDie^ tarn £pedal merit byIb'inj! lirir >hors pcmnl- lH liLkEJ l!FllsI nmnh-
Oe low donniEun humc-. nuU -ruilviit- ai
Ch I lipje Mai 1 in vcT>tiy t n i - j m S
^
6J to
sL-n.^ tinrUwxn TfinJliurtcL
p-fc l-iiih HifcJ
1CH)
TmrEftiitg j mptr mail,
,in I vy ,t biim-
Imk> rafl; tralc In^h (run
}ikjv> lo tlr^Ll Hiip lushfel
litncmjh i hi riir Vhi- dl-
l'-bfl.nl |«!flndii'ulls jrh'ib^
Ihf LoUtim. ^‘LLh its ijujlk
tfi thp drpUi dhifiNl
Bound fur ^ iawnriO u|>
ifejJii. liit- jiiitiy irfic-j the
Rjvi'r Kwesi"—
-
the Maekliunk'—n^ir taitirhrmn
Liksn brlrjiA the iruinjjicd
RttUffr
\fib[li 3 bows I lj
tileptuints pfjy humnpi mTli aLEan 1 1%kmp an<1 Queeniirip] iht l-eelUii# Pmltkninf Vuairiii ahl'Jbtrni by .1
iillblwl 1 1.1 villein a 3 Mai'
Fall* Fnmt Pftrk Dfttuip-
•ircuimi: 1 he ininrah' -bil.
11 inbuilta |HiE I
J
1 riii 1
1
1n Litis
ihr- p,ui - i>f fom.-i W'cprk
psjshm^i rind
rolhr-yls^' Tiu nlk in tapI i ir. i-( u i Irfr ? *Eiji h’ itic winti 1
1 ! l' .1 Irak I Oil. 10,
T!ir]iri( r I fir M*& charged for allowing fhttwNtt K> be phnli>-
era plied humJ just gune from one Ljoht to l\m. \n old Mto io3il mr n
was only fair 1 le Ion 3 beta down to Chian g Mai jiitij seen his picture
on a color postcard 3 Et thoughl c vie ryba dy jihiiEtfgraphmu himwould m.ikr money From it and he wanted inn
At Border Patrol Fulke headquarters mirth of CbjftJig Mai I wasbriefed an the problem of the le^^-viilted hill tribe*,
There were many of them. Akhn,Kamra. \ an, Lahti, tasu, LuuThey spoke many rEifTcrufit I analyzes. and they were very poorThey had to be hel|wd They Imd to be watched If subverted
| ..Minimi-? agitators, they mLgfai hero rut rbn serous gvierrillris
Border Patrolmen built .schools and LaueJit their drildfien: agrlctii*
turuJ expert* .tmighL ifi make ihem cnfi^enEiitia on i raps uihertlijui
’Scr kuinsLaiittr- "tivmn With J KmUm!’-, Ikalk I.llb, " m Jtilj
Sathi nai ( ; h OGEAl’JiliL' .’P.-bM - . '71 '
.1
I CM
Sra-Jthell are iji Hhunidiol D.itti ibfjnw,
isnmifd i'or ihr Kljiu, lif ilil • buck A/mt ^.iStrxH
ttif r'ijij! River the rt#efVi4r will irriiiiiti: li mil-
lion arm- lor net* fiirmint: Turbinr - rn ihr
I'mt-hifTh harrier have doubled the nation'' dri*-
trieal output -i I if v they lie-usi '.pirtninE: in 1'iJfe-i.
evert! EiaiiSy They will ^iiaxlniplf it
*.«_< M>* >vi > * *. a
Bnlitif1 IfVQl the Htvtt ktvai. _r m , ax n-Jir
thM ijispiieH ji i. ple&raied novel .and mutton ph
(lire, curve* \kirk buses .1 iHinp sun
Beneath an iirrh of I he VnO-Jf iot i|ranKa tanner
dni’ls hL- i: j.r. c lu hojn^ward.
Seeking a vtrateKir ftdtaTty’ link between Thin
land md Burma In W'utfliJ War 1 1 the Jiipuinest
\rrru J f>
f
l mt -Vllwd prisoner* ot war ^nd Ajnj^n
workers to lav mute than*SCI ini leg oT imcfc
r
Ltototlidi lllidari^mludetl lUkltfJc bill- nl fhnU
-:ind* died oF mtilmjtnUtJLL nJitl dfciea>e arnl in
Mlited liumbni,^ tb*d rifcrtrrjyr^ imn <if fbr
bridp Today the rail lime juriet vinitm^ fin-m
Bangkok tu Kjitu hanj-Liiin, fie.Er l|ic reluidt “-pall,
where ntfut r.mk.i of stonth lldh) m-uk the gmve*m! about hiil I of Mir- so. «ih pristshcr- of wur w (iin
died building the Mbtiii|ic ci deal It."
Uplluk America jl cu{uipimnii:, esi^rfally the
lie lieu peer. \\± invaluable., and so were thi;
American advisers, the appraj^o^tte andpnlice expert> front the (', >. aid mutejun
I drove on n
r
j rth fur another 1 00 milts,
through the 3 tide town uf F&ug. lo &p<i mi the
nitsht with a ThniBordei BatruJ pLuLuiiu, close
r i i the l? li rm.a front rcr The post was biwrked
oul One never could tell w ho ongjil be toot-
ing for ft Tanjet
\VKt mnmtng, when the jeujp could jn nn
farther,! walked along an oxcart irail and up,
past a few houses; on iip1through a stream,
and ih rough a sleep rnre^l with leaves cjis-
kninjz it' if made of plastic; apaiii up. on a
Alipfier> Ttlttpc md then . i J < n tr a Tidi®e+ to a
villain* of the Liihu i pitta: 1241
IJul^ growled at me ft must have biim mysmell. I saw two rfcfttn house*., ptiis, stacks of
firewood, a curm3 for dancint: Llndtr >nri}e
inuisftE H em pomes sn very smalt pens. On ii
btm^li i hundred yards off -at an e ante
(>pium Crniwers Don't Tell Ut s
V itum who knew this tribe wdl hm H i old
me that the* lived in a biirb moral edimate All
dressed .dike E very * hie rm k nnly hual'Ji
land i-- lie mild work Nnhody lied Rvefy-body w uutd kmnw, because ii & mail Laid alie. or did toffiglhrrifl serkmsly Wrp&K, hj>-
uramh ("her? Spirit would mukr him iJF or
kill him
A man with a tattoo m; his chest stud the
peopk were away, in the Gelds I didn't wantm ask him what they grew Did he like lo gqdi>u ii iikio the v-all(jy? He said he would vat her
no l It would mr him a headache.
Driving hark, eii route from hang in
t hkiei u. Mai, L mw ;trnied men hringa wound*ed villager ink » n improvised dink Hitf
st4jmaj.il was a ul blfsod
"Bandits from Burma/* I w a- l old- "Ttaev
ambushed a government payroll, bul \\c
foiled that We killed one of them. Look,
here's hi r- weapon It was a * S carbine
I I i if armed men were Thai, membcMi- uf the
Border Patrol'- lommajttfa ttfift Tape* on
their jackets spelled out u; Knglish “Special
Force."
Back in Bangkok l mtjiilrfd about nn inter
Jireter for a trip lo 1 bn- south Better find
Mihirum1 down there whu spr-ak- Malay .t*
well as a couple of Chinese dialects* 1 wil*v
tid \ iwd The stmt h e r nmo> i i in « v i r . e hadbeen Malayan lerriioiy from the ItiLh to the
rate l. H Eh century t hey mil rontiun a million
-o-eaHtd Thai MoilemsOilnriu, of oursc L= useful rvcxywhare
ui ThaiE-nid, especially m Bangkok, whereroughly uni.' in tStr^c inhalihaiits is. a Th.u
Cliincfiv Thai doesn’t include nil Hu- peoplewith C'hw&e murht-Tr or unttidfiitiers Musiut IShtii an: loyal inEcrmLirry
with Lhr Thai, Mtmy nirn their naJnrj' mloThru, bui a Thai am alwayn tEll, Tepchltt k ariilncsc rjJaJect, donti nates much rT business.
On the Diaji (page 82), Thailand is sjiaped
like :m t'lcfihnnrs headh and by liv ing tild430
miles to Satu^khto J moved way down the
elephants tnink 1 was ,d-o plungiag intv i he-
rainv ncuiofi, For in the south ihr moni^oc.itt
in full swing—the ni on soon from the
nntitiL'a-.i, l.isiaug ironn November thnufigh
l; ebniaryr
a Befori' tlmt it Iwl been the^outh
went monsoon, from May through Scpt^tnbcr
.Iej thine iLior Tnrinrlir. I hi raiti^ ran he phe
nomenal, producing prodigious Hood*
''VAnd marvel dus shrimp,” sasil ^Tr. I'.mv:ir
Kirk^-Cnii, Ifelrfti Dflicer oi >ongl-:hbi. \V'l-
sudc Lp the gfivVrnur's ym'hi nn Thah Luany,
ii muddy lugocm 4U mils - htm He c-illerl it
-Hhe lakep
Tn tbil' dry -f.mii.rr- the waiter U blur aiui
quite iitlly. Now thu rainwater dilulc> thi
•all—great uyt shrimp Weftcefce them " TheyttulH Mi Japan.
t-littery Prl/e-; A 4 ellllLry % rucrniu
Air Panyar ranked one step k'luw the gov-
CHUt r E k H as rc> pon.s LT-J l- fu r I 2 ( 3r.», )t.M j pw0fi I c
—schools,i:i\> |io| ice, evns ryth] nsi As he put
;i it was quite a job;imA lot of resjionsibilily.
nut mb l Ii hlu lu iH P- , a l«t cif irk , and ve r>
little salary"
He pHiititi'Ll i iiit j4Ji island farUoUi os a nest-
mg ground of small swLfLv Their uesl
-
ge I
.
iU ; 1 11
1
j ' bird'?.-nest ou p, vesy ze^ty. mNowUj
tV. gn briek," be saidr
11
sn E can ^how you the
new hospital and school for imrsfc-M
AuotiiL'r ufliciul told me Eh.it within h?
miles uf Siongkhki some J00 dattccfiiU? Cum-mutiiyi* liad been arrested in the past twomonth.- Ame rn . i r, i i m n ( e rd naurgency a tivi s
efj. had been mosi helpful Pa the Thm aiitlmr-
J ti l*
“
SfHin after 3 left, the Border Patrol cap-
tured j. Communist igntp lull of utiJforrns,
flags,|:amphlets
fcand bnuby trajis.
In Songkhla I Eiad the pleasure af ll visit
with Mrs. Sob Bunibvmg Mm' months eurticr
she bnd . si.hi eve d Lhc great Thai dream— thL-
jirixc in ihc Nmional ladtery Five huntired thousand baht! That amounted in
525,000. To earn that muck u Thai laborer
would! have tn wntJi nrr ji hundred years,
she bad stayed nn In the -.Ami- neigh bn r-
boodi, though Ihe hmi.se rmw was coiaTCtc,
im
nfil Shr hftil hcmuM I'u-lv- m.mtl and tnsis lor iw- sons But -fu
w i ?r kef 3 in tiif kiit 1wrn us bo fure. c 1iok
in# nee m (he 5jme old pots
Hit husband* Mr Mud Bpath unit,
had qtiil hi^ job u_- a sprayer fur a muf it n ;t ciiTHm! proKnitn. He told mi: abumihr Jifi» tiling btflJs oi tin srnitK The bull
named Kwonluem Wiu tine of the best;
he would figbt again ne# Sundny
How could a bull fijxhil more ih.m
mrc 5 didn't llic fn+vn- nl kill him v
M t M u 1 1 - .ii d “Yo u rJu n1
r tin di: rM.in 1
l
The fight ii ajWayi between inn bulls
li Iti^fo until ntir runs Ml Bulls nn-ver
kill each other here"
My mterfHretrr. M<J> Thauee Thi.tr
u
vanicb^kMlfc Ifi hmihiT and Invrd to talk
ill hp it I il k Wr i irt i v r pfl$t. fH t tads l i J a L 1
1
the ruiv>i. I i, Quid hardly ktk-| up with
nil the trees. Tahitm, iumpor, tetig, nmi£
— it! I dtimlik. btiiv>i pjDO' hI for
luiy^c-.i, luhI > i j pt ^ the cheapest, for the
huiii&efi of tht poor, Also, rubber Umh.Rubber was thf biggest export from the
pi?rt at Sonck hht; 61+000 torts last year,
more notv (page ill)
\nl tiur from SivHglehlRj at the Kutrhtr
Research Center mm Hal Yak anm-tendant said that Mr Jack Haitink,
the Englishman then in charge, had
ni.li mj to tow n Vi>u ( iufj urt- him hv is
i all and hasm
d yel 1 o v. VI i?n 'm 1 c I • I . • I r i I
fmtL .VI r H^tiirp in Hiu Yai, but I
found half a dcrai-n Miifttilis
Tito w+i? tltr Boi ijnirip business center of
1 1 i l south. Xbxv 1an i ks . a mutel . two aii
ciinclhiuncd movie houses \ 152-todth
hmd hud opened Ihc week before.
Thr motiey of Han V;d came from
rubber, tin mint!-. ,tori Malayuan tuur-
:su, .YEuLtysians \<*vvA Hat Vai.il didn't
t us 1 mjL'h Eu Jr i ve u p. mi «
d
didn
' t ever. -
body want to see a fottttsn i, inm try once
in a while?
I tnpfovcmerm i sprau led u I i n js 1 1 n Oi
tnile-% of toad to (kdiani—paving urn I
concrete brsd'it.-, Lu #Jt|^|nnii die flui.nl>
While Ujl- concrete poured, lempurmybypass hndj^ts hajJ io serve Sewndwere unde? Lrins4tUc±Jfln. wit In logs
tfragSfod from ihr forest to the nnu\ bydtfphaius For a while ] watched an dt1 -
pha n S 1 h a 1 1 l,i& it i;nX i ketl tU ‘-k H i ^ t pwner
xiiifl.,LHis uiLviji' is Yuntifc. He is nut
beautiful, but he is a icou-d worker'
As 1 h l- [ir:u 3 'i-hiriiJ J^
ji|e i rt F’MUuu
l wii- told thai riif iniitru w;br Hai L jl
Hu^ Iut Iili£, li mjrv and hi - rTancU in E“SiLhanLp-r itti - dn^n
I'iir^rn? tkd « tirir^iirnur^i ihr yinum^. teJ- wriM topn-venl
hb ttuiuy MUils from &Ura>lB|5
'"StigBr IlLeii1 , plciSp?" CCJli a pLnl-ihjc VflflMte® Jii-tcIhw s
Ims ot.u K^imdmnoburi- Rond -wea^.1 travelers refmhrheoi^dvefr with a skewer 01 sweets (inr about & pern:
Nik Abdul kiihrmin But, when 1 Intro-
dm erl in the imam* I learned that be wit-
ILidji Abdullah, tl.id T been misinformed?
Well, ito, the Mcrattmsof had r let led
1wo imA^ Howe ver + the authorities in Bang-
kok -5 i i r| ijul1 man nuis^ be in rburze So -^ime-
Uni£s il was our, and the iki ht-r
Outside. spotted-necked jj.ur^U-d jil
decorative cages. TeQt'le kept them ncxl to
iheir houses, to enjny their *weet |iurfi;ling
I hey wouldn't gurgl r Indoors
Twellt v - fj v
i
1 itule*. -sir the i iov«-i tmr of V-illl
I'tilfa e t iij, Siii Kjjjhinm, -aid we hmE just
pasM-d thrcji juli o in ii tji-i l. il Ghlnfcse ftmroriste;
m
olber^ lurked Lthead These were ersperjeated
troublemaker-., bavina fled inEu 1 Liidhuvl
Iheir rebellion in Malaya hud been sup
pressed Fn. Nt.Lksv.m fein-. under British com-
mand, He asked u.- to lake .dung .in esci urt:
"il I he) -t;t Li white man, r here might be
trouble They might think ’-nu an Rnidirifr
They (lun'i mind Americans ”
W'i: fullowed the police jeep through TbuJ-
lajiLt1
- mmi roman tii" lajtdse^p^ tiliau+iunjj
trees Valievs now clear, now misty Lime
%tmc cllUsLp s#mt woodird+ som£ tintit£gy* hun-
dreds oa feet ‘iiTJDizln up I iiim^iiunl E wasriding ihrouJi a Chinese piu riling
t.mltri hilfni-Ml M I:!'
- mil]
cirtj.-- ^iLiirkMl .nLiliii.ltlt!*- nn liir
Ef.lijm! Mil" Phi Phi. s^silmi; .1
nckety hiimboo ladder, .i n^kr-
tor ]ilui ks ii\rt \ n-
I i
.
1
1
"=
; i_ l:i.:-!i- «
l'
:Y, m:
verse on the vast lina-sJriTu: nn_ -
erns 1 1.14 ninnel the rtiai p;in-
hnniik And iU islamb- Secretinit
ii
:
U
j f ItLe Mlliit+iiiie in dtL'ir
mm.ii.hn, I he hlrcU ffcilij iJdfrziaj'
iu'\U 1 below i. ^kkicijj them fait
to T 1
1
l- ru rrMif-e:!! liriehT- (.VjIKt
I sirs hiafvcil ti hint’- fsrMi iwe*
ju'M.-, leitvrni! the I h.mi tnrrni^Hc
viujuj; FVtrluiipf ilsuyi &U) apound, the nea-ts conk into ,i
; : l.[!I iCl - -mi
S
«fm" i ; ll
1
,|
i. -i
!
by the i.*hin t-Jie
,wlm mlv fci Uawn r%
ihr- hlood pressutc.
ThoM* cliffs* Ml nf c aves. ru^ rver closer
to ihe tom\ I couldn't I'nrsjTrt Colonel Skrir
*
remark. "The Chinese teTTOrijib fire tkiwn
irrim i he KnooN[.ni^ Jtj>i uboiu everybody
killed there jgels a buhel through the lop of his
flL1
ini \\ milil fhfc ptittiireMimf wilderness
n$vet isnrlP
Al Itj la*t, at dusk. we hi united Belong:
—
i -i^ible city Rcyaod Bettirus was Midijy-u
lieinntJ was qverwtebnliigiy ( hui£§et
largely dependent on rubber P and hu-nre not
I i ii-
- I '-i • I- 1 r - [Ujo r.iUnT I iTi iii ?\\
toidit a [HFund Now, her aijsc of cum pel lLluu
from synthetics it went for three or futir.
Mi lit rubber o\ southern Thailand uymtsfp.iim sfruill producer? Jinfnr .Mt,OOu [jeaple
t . : |I heir uuni tm-s. Bui ne.tf Behind lit! ll icu
btii rubber estates, and ike Chinese terrorists
wiTr taring them Most of i he owners were:
> hinetc and lived m Bangkok or in Mnu-.i-
ptifi-, 1
1
lie one lived htvt Hr hud twn jmIhf-
men sri from qf his house.
I lr.ii h i il' bade.- noli I ! toward ILn . ,ui. I
Htnpped and took a walk into ike tores?. Big
brown buiterrhi^ till ted from ihr shade into
the -ins und back again, On a rubber tree- E
nutirvd -.irinii of Chinese characters and I
iL-kediinoat
O
h. njtjbi dapper whui tbi mi ai it.
m
He said is -H declaration nf I ove. "Aboy imri .1 girl mti
( Iserr Vou km*w 1
A tint her Pi in 4 ufnci by and ±a\d than.- du±r-
aeters meant that the t rt:t! w.& no guod Theywttt n notice not to bothej tapping i(,
I copied Ehe character* a- best 1 could andshowed thrill In -till Linuthcr nijm later nh 1 [i-
thnught homnrte hud tanked thrill as a trEb-
u tf tn In* late hither. it was a (.'"Jiitiew customHack hi Bangkok I gut one more u pinion
MIt pn diufrly was an extortion note from the
(’hinese terron-L-.. lin nr*l roan you flaked
pmh.tbly km
w
ibul didn't ^api to ttdJ you
"
Ttwj bad I'd In-il my i opy or the rhtrraciers
J li.nfiil (+iiuh ,i Whikr-wcui \\ ii\ VViitc
In lhc rainypouth J had often been drenchedli i the >kiti, but iti 2u minute- I'd be dry again
\ncl 1 never felt hut, the way t m-uath did rn
liatjukok- War^ agn, I auppetee, people fetilinsE
as hot as I did jllsI jumped ini o lhc klone^
around them Nowadays mimt-mu* klnnidcss
Bno^kukiari^ jump into their turn and head
ntittthciisl, to the beach at Hun [liutthovB
I he drive led through the hl:w rewifenlbiJ
quarter eaSled Being KapdpaM - htfjrttejtl bibs
calories nnd cnngirurilm offices on Sukhum-vti Road- past windmill^ and iMiin ^neti. p^irn e field the left ;n ;
I salt Aim on the rfebl
Pfjisit said, "'[he metmub ihal itrnw in the
HU sail water tuple especially vwutfi/' I hr road
paralleled the coast til the blue Gulf of niam.
Bw Rhaithjjya had u hotel and cottages; a
yiuhl > loh md bea l: hsltfe rt^Liumnt a nrr-
realiun center for jtttttXti, the Join! Ignited
MittL's Military Ad visory Group, und anotherl nr tbu L\ ^ Army's nsfi Lo^atinal t'oranuuid
Han ITlJilfhsmi wa.~ a hotbed » it wiLTer-skirng
-itnl scuba diving.
We|
lulled tip at the Nipn Lodge -d (ration
"We're full +" said the derk- ri But iit fiveo'cEm k
wp'll finish ,t new wing with Jfi toons.*,"
We cam* bin k at eight, dad ut hoc! irHer-
VaUnna. The other new rooms were full mtptirb^ from Switzerland
During nut r.Himlt^- ifteni-mm we Huddriven farther into the southeast— pine-
apple and SUirar t,mt and the sued smell of
caLssava mill*—to the liatbur of SaitaMp, king
; I btii nnval base. N’ow there ^lrerrhect near-
ky ill i I .j|ilijiu, dw kmge.’.i :kir-Snjnn 'nijrh-
' . l.4 . \ sia— 1 1 , ,iUl J E ec L plus 2 1XM) feet * if 1
1
ver-
mn. Parking ram|j^ aiwl taxlw .iy^ npfwart tl
id iifeliuushinsz speech ever\ day 4JDCM1 feet ml
conereie, |S inches tbiLfc nnd 2 5 ket wieIil
Tank trucks hauied jet fuel imni the newty
detficneil .md expanded ;iurt ta the airbtijsc.
There would W pi|irlinr- Mwm I \;iw a nsoun
tain hall green t half brawnbth-fed and dusty,
Hulldiustr^ cin; wed at it A furtnnm _%aid tlii>
TO laieme, a krw-^radr iron ore, piod ior
making muds amt filling land
\h- Ml lllJiicT 5J5Q [HMiiid Vt -trvr
dine carrier baled rubber shcvi- at
..i Chinrysrim W4r^hiay*y In Sourkb] Li, 3 niajur tiOUtllrt n- 11-irr Mr
l
- i sfirk in she- ffirc-TTiiin tn
IjIU I hr L-ur^n j> ir ir* w v ahaard a,
liidtltr Second to rh e aition^c Tfcits
cxpi>rf>. the rubber si^c- t^imartlj-
Lo Japan for pirn., r--u i |j
.
Tuntpilirc pfe&Sntis rhr wtirfeerji
brow marlin him a> a the
Thin FtefS-iril the bc:ajJ.iia -m fitdjtriit
would mi j,nui it to 4di use
Titrtiun mid n nm? Jukis ^u-r n i
Malay I'odtir kLnjs tiKhp<*und
Sin mjgota— prttfJu-L'L- iff ThEultultfs
nrw ^rnchrr i ml the Large southerly
Lffaml of t'hukrt
With surf 4k ihrfr %luicef *tn
eypkiei pdu till 00 PhukH Mrn-
loEk of iliih w iimfeii n^ CGiiFtal pec ;
plr -wim inn with miier EuIhtv gi
jffvr fur iiTc-rieh nilL lin si jliXfc! It
U\ dhcililo'-^i MiT Lhr women Em f4ft
F&ithiT i iff -* footc cpoiJi»m drril|£p>
Ijrine ui' 1 missive hire 1 nii tin rem-
.riLrasr—dcposil* washed doW?ti
trmii nearby tfiihuiitli)|u.
1
In it vmuifif wppFld of LjinnE pLnt>, luu uz&rBelem: lm\ .1 riri* ele wicii akicMa^itenf timlwll^c
H chimin id Ruin _> snu iviili uruJiinr ini . :1
[nip^SiatlLstie blur In .1 r<i.Lrl!-idtj rf--p^iranl bearHrlmii: s^Ktllhrmmfijl dty -it the kmcimm ]>inrr«;
wait jifcf I hi- torrent Lu darken; rookW-iildlf-: U>r ruiilMm n-n Xcar tltt bundid kAA^IIi1.t.
l hijiii ^ rtiEen in l\m\ ctd%erU5c> Ctvaltinr
Liiii\thr.iiljle it* the Hi to mui fkiw of the lirjts, iho
nerEbeiL^E ciiirj 1 1 >riol^ britijiL- blerrr. cilUJlfl* in rtiirk
Win'e* ai:ru*> the Thu pan ha mile imm NrtvTTuber
through Tcbninry Jiin^iri4i li^Lvjipiiurss chm irii||ftr
ikva^tilling rloodi Thou the tvmiT jv, mr atu\
frutn May IhriMHif-kl SE]iUemb|.TtJjf mnn-EO011 pelts I hi* UiitgtacJ i lira -Tils Often djosifhfd unhi-s Travel*, thr nulhor discovered ihm in Jh minW« Ihe Em rural ^mi LViMkfeliJ: rnm;plt»|(j|ji- turn
r 3 ii Hit* airbase J saw ji bfuilfce plaque, with
two enarodfrl dags Ac loft wort the redr
w hi I e . 1 nd bJ ul- vtn 1 1e ^ . 1 1 I hailjunl\
i&^e S 1
At right, the Star* and StrlfH;*,
'"he inscription taijj ihikt un August ID,
I bii r | he Prime Minister, Field Muesli ;lJ
Tbmagm Kuiikuthoni. actini; in Ins capacityi- Minuter of Defend, had dedicated VTapiun airfield "as a symbol of i“n43p^Ml4ojifor pence and mutual ^curtiyc'
TluiihjnrJ und the l]r £ Wire partuer.- ul
ssato, ihv Scmil liciird Asia Trc.xiy OtpuLeaHim The bjBfl wa> 1 'hai So were the (guards
a l the g:itr tn^ide^wio^i atfdwph'ines and men
M 2
were Amerkun The Thai were ho?t^ r thrA mericJins %pmt\ O n Ih cil nil dei>tn: 1 .. I l : \,gt aik
lar^e bases nperutcii in ThnUrtrid, and several- mal Ict on rs. I Tiiphun was host *0 jet I an k-
i tonne. B-52 bumbfrb would come uiun
Tilt Fnipi CltYiu-M i'riiiLL'i £iptpd Cruder
I ci I - nu'kek, the sun rui’-u brilUajttly on Uir
wth biithihvv mi king Ehmiiibul Adulyoduj,..iUu known as kmg Rama IX, I hnra'jeH) tn the
ceirmrUuH parado af thr- Rnyal (iujfds no
(he Rnyal PIzlcjl
His 5 fnJetty earned a itokjcri bajun-'Tlic frrfet tt-Sl jrlv irri'-tri or April JES,
j j -1I.M ihIi t-nAi' i-i- h
pi educed h} ibe lltmfil forces—and I hear 1.
1
ill .it I it? conmdferi?d as hi s n k rst birth day izi ft L 1 it*
n /. i i i i hr Crown Prinrtf. Ehem'n - hr»'i iri
Kasdan d, Wjis hrs*. in hi? d-i>s in mathpmatira
I was dazzled by I hr musturl band 1- and by
LfiiL1 qenenib in liirtr ku Id- braided Lnnn> n\
-carlet and d.0Vi gray Mid electric blue, l heir
plumes oi while and pink and black, and their
sashc* in oil ihzst I'nlorv
Thailand. 3 knew, had general- by the fhn-
f:ns They held many of the higher pontons.In iiiii £ i le L t\f the giivetoRKnt, and amnnethem ail Gen Prapur Chunisalhira. tops a
very special general ^nuic 124! He was a
Deputy Prime1 Minister and, wtih i h i km^.approval, he appointed t^ers snvernar and
disirict n ffree r for he was abn Minister nf the
Interior He bended a dn/eit kinds "I policy
.i iir| as tb inimaniier m Thief m" ifor Armv he
controlled lbi- troops that controlled Utanftkuk-
He certainly was i\ fnendlv man. 1 venT
lurk'il that 3 bai ufiker-. won; the inn- 1 h m-
tifu! uniform.- pf am modern array in the
World ^Thiink you said General Pfiipa-
" %’i ii j kmuv, when we betfrin to nimh-mUi- our
urm> . chip first foreign advteer> icaini; from
Etii ^hi. 1-Lin -:. Russia. of course
\jid oft he went tn a microphone before
ni
tliu reviewing -t.md P to mnlu* the * urefiwmkt
addrc&i tu tliL king He pledged the army'sii i> leI t y . referred to the
wis 1
1 1pee i
11e ;i sed infil-
t ration and subversion at the t.'diJUiptis£B>f
;
jufil R'jsMrtt'il ill id ii! I Thai were uniting
against ihs.i ihrfiiiL General iJtt^assj^hcaikri
Ibe Commlmist Suppression Command.That night. in His Majei-lyN honor- public
bui! ding*—Mid many ntherfi T jLr)dfvcn irers-
—
writ Festooned with hizhis It seemed u> at
mum god furl ^ prink led Him. Mik wilh i?mu-
^uiiL% of nibif? -irt' l tens of thousand* of prarkOnly in one .spot were thi- tight* mil cite frit
it the ltt.li"centucy fort left m rer tnmi Pa- djs-
montli-d i sty waits Herr flickered hundredsfii hide o IJ lamps, casting .1 spell n| gold
Thefe \ sal along lL leftover klung, m an
a pen-air rental!rani brumth. Ehe ulej t annoru,
Lind watched men sciding the batderneut* 011
ladders* eh nsligW ml tamps blown out fay the
wind- 1 could imagine die in to Uc warriors, on
she hi tuck Tl w;i_- an image lhal ha* fmiintrrl
ThaihtmJ# history.
TEiaiLmd'* Pjnst ElpmuinM .1 Pu^ik1
\s diics izo, Bangkok is not old P not mucholder I Ei an Washington, |j e' h wos t'nundc-d
in 1
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Si. dirt the Htirmr-r had racked she
old capital, brnutsfuf \yuttlmya. ndlcs In
the north (ttttpe 1 16) Ih-pyious Thai kingdom*centered still. tart Sin north, in SukliothaL in
i ' Luang Mas. and probably elsewhere \\ hvre?
Archtnlcjgi^L-—Thai, French, Danish. Dutch,
.me I American think that w\mi they havefound tatdh will di anne Th.ti history books.
*Thc widespread, notion that the Tlui l afflc
from southern China* to get away from KuhlaJ
Khan, rests on ijmifEcienl tv h Ii-m i- \Witjust mil -rurc where they came from
"
dec lured Mr j j Bock"", 1 he sc: h?i tarty
Dutchman dite^llny Lbc Hhun SocieU '- Sir-
dearth Center. And Primx" Subh.Ldradis Dis-
kul I 1, an i-l Sr- ti-
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1
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siu. told me"We feim found 1 new* historical period in
Thailand Site" nut fur I turn Bangkok extend
btu the time of the empire of Funan, luutieh
the first to the sixth centuries A.n L’ntil re-
cently* Flipan W4c? thought tu have centerediin what is now >uuth \ iet \:im, nr pn Cambtidui. Vow Li appear^ lJuiS si-. fiLpiiiifc tiT.iv
well have been hi1 re"
VrchroJoey wjls l jul
j
ming, ad 1 lu* 1 1 Ehjl*"
r1 n 1
But -u was 1 1 iv illicit export of vaJUAhie im-
ages of the land Buddha unc&nhcd IlilcIv" kWe would Like to get them to museums, be-
fore they are all stolen and sold to foreigners.
I am afraid tiii* Is now quim 1% problem."1
The lime had come fur me to j% close
Innk al Mu- ilnunbi pn.iljlt'Tn i Ji TJiajbmtl
the VorLhea^t
ImAprtB a hard land t a poorly dr.iirn ,
i| [>ki-
tean about the size of New England, wamr-logged under the monsoon lint generally Lund
and dufitj The rii.e iielris nrr hard in lrHpnU%and > it'L':! poorly
I m ,1 gp n e'1,QG0 , 1JOD far11\m g i setjpk% two i jnt
'' r every seven Thiu. hardened bv the land.V« ,my .if i- tV.n-edli'^o Mi :md seek to
BaUukuk. where Lhe_^ are IsMjked down upnti
as ^okd^. In Janp;agr T dress, and rustrims
they an: i
y
Ti>sef to ihe farmern across the Me-koD^ the eibiLii Lhai who ore ihe people 01
l -ms. Imagine the ufficuLU st>ot from farawayBiuigkok, pining for comfort* and advance-ment- Ehe> left behind, iMger tu iir! hark.
\<n: bs-^-lerni' r* feared them.
In Tkinjibk. during my visit, tt was Ligreed
diLit thus i* haw ihmushad been in the North-
east for decades, at least uritiJ recently+ Vow'hr iiii was full of tujpe- und pfam for urral
changi^. E|uit k belief farmiruz- more mad^more pohcc with helicopters
i >therwise wi uildn't the f l1mu ri sis
.
bjisrd in
the jungles and calling themselves the Thn i
land Patnodi Front, step up their murderous^
. |
ieni 1 1C- t« ven more"
H
Jn 4 w;iv, tSiat w\u wasn't S'1 %<=ry ilislMtl
M.i Son>bPtm hitj-aprasjut, 35, a father of
five, and the highest-rooking officer yet killed
m iiii3 Vo rt beast had ju.^l been 1 rematti I in
lia r 1 trko k F ki on- I h t c iurcm on > >Fie I d Mat
shot Thnnom awarded hm^ 11 pi“i.sthumoli5
pruitji.ilkm Em l’i 1 iluncl und thr t Inter nl' tltr
White Elepltaiu. Third lirituk Coluoel Sum-Imon h;-til fiilten in a skirmish on his 12th
weddtrjc anniversary
iVild West Fivet On hi Booming l dt»m
After a >iji. 1 mi 1 l- flight tu L'dorn. the ch|h-
tal of the northeastern province i>i thi* samenxttne. m\ Sifni smprcsiuoifi? ts'pice nf resuiirifF
rnp changes indeed
“VuLi'rr on l lie tu'Wosl litn^u in nswn," H.aid
1 lit 1 jllvl driver “Faveri lost we*k Herr - utn
ii r&t l nifliH. light 1.wo monU15 o! ii
At the race toi k J put my immtiy on Surm-
boon 1 'Im+or Perfect \ ictory, who was netted
out by Ratana The van, or Divine JewreL
u hi If ^ 1 m I Ming MaiH> f or My came in
last. Bui Ihut ibdji 1 disturb nw Ike I1 .1-, m iii li
ns i Ile ihuml l*rm g of the jet hgh t er-honi ti£ s—
die Republic F-UJ* '-T ur Hjuhdi?rchaefe
Pof the
I S Sir Force, landing on the big .ursirsh
right nmr the track I iidn'l the planes disturh
she horsed?
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II ILEII l^llK'liL' 1I bn Hacks
pull A iiirt with ^ Lug -«3unj^
bbtstoath it fiCRT Sakcin Nak-
hfiTi,a proTinciAl facial in
Ehr (mriftt 'Infested NflUln
v:lsL The Thiri cull lid* h;ini
abiuut&tlt Limber WriJ rfePt[£
— "red; wood The distluc-
dvi rart rLisTif!< * hnmpr<r-
like oufriitjjet to tend utT
underbrush The more j
c:irl hqiaenk- |h$ bciTcr. Thedriver ht^pe? il will nrarr iiff
udhl LiojmcLb unii i sri I sperfts
IrOfCidnK provide L live-
k I mu m I frif many a vdlagci
»n lln -O' -S'mit-hiirh funrlh-
L'LV-^prn plaifinn.
Pride i] f FLs umier* i iiJls--
Icnin^ log IjtluJi. parades pL-
lui pts ; 1 n 1 1 hijrn n-n
the hitugii-Ke ruck pnnllfliiiis
Hi mime. ' Rrjitht Uftln
Mliile 3 ti- Japm? . the f, r 1 u: k 1 1 a*
rm dour—_h I'ummcm iatirii
in bilin) Thud and” ( ridinp iht rr 1 ud to s ^ k on
XmLImuc. sjJiiJakd tad hear*
a nidon >kj 1
1
J 11 (.Lav of jfckrky
ruirrhciL-^tum ri i*. rookt'd mbuniwb *Utw * !n r marked n#j.
Kuli i ill In vun k. .1 bill I
1- 1 1
phsillT -itiiJ hulkiiiu raJf ft]]
ri tjudi en TiiiiEt- L 1 *> U Ethpl^I
rn-jf S.immr Sri khan M;i-
hom ~ §tpy mpuiued m keep
'In- Ih-'il-L-- •
|me I 1 lu.Hli;j l Eke
jtMtmey Though mevhuhb.ial ]-: 1 n am'-j.d- rapidly In
rhjtib rtd. mnndLhinr tweeh
ihedcplmm at burkmjE
from fone-ii to river or truck
In -I tL- Fai^lt^h "-erven as
.1 >et !>nd lnn$ruii_m; of Thui-
InttrL, annlhcr British tnllu-
eitcc pirv^uUnlrin-p «ii< high
uii)^ where driver- keep fja
the left side
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icwnmmi n n«« mi - iu
-filS
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Crhaitu of j '2, J ori 0u \ [nul ih
irf it Miynl Ice84| ik- ^|
«i ki*- thv miniof ^iiun^ riipltflj for
four tcnluris-. \$hg* of h>y .ilty
r^t with hi the a^ui reel dfrtusi,
* ilfrf-f- [tffliftf :-tuf f wall* rrvfJtl
fcd-brEi.k cote* \ wjillfij townIII 1 1* mulled by Wfllefl ill the (."Juki
f'Sifii v n. AyLLLtEtAya Ui the
Lnri/amt uni! of iht binirst
-.uuih mf ChituL \ Uiuda InubimItiJ-b dc.«cn!icrl it a* "fr^ijcnted
by of] KatAntw; nftd . impre jnn-
bte " Kui Burracse iifrnic? piem-tl
its defttlub in I T
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Today nrik
iJietc crumLLEru.' rnonum-rnt* Ale
icti tii haunt the kmngtnatiDii To
prefervr <htm, I he vefrimt-iil
(>]iuu 1 JiaLiijriiil iJbli.iTLL'fcJ park.
Mast nf evil idctiiificji T'bn?3'
kanth ' rikihly cims-t heinous villain
ii "be Riiwakitfi. Thai vn -nm 1 t
the Indian v.nff, Rttwftytiit't W fti]r
nun* pantonijinep n rhnrfco ltll>
iii monkey h^jitiEfuJ
SaiLiie^,and jiou rriid hflrflei
Mn^k-iil fcdalik u'iUi blu/iUK s-'ye* rt£LU!~ tilt Army mB the hemRuniiL PurMiLRE in .ill- of the evil Tljoadka/ith, Ramtii iiifitruai: h ;i sfTfLsIwre, I he sliigfc JifoWs Lurk tliliing on juiHtriuiturid
IMT-witrSn a j{rPktraJ enlarges hi* knl;k and lay:. hlTTHelf ai'TO** Eht
waier a- ii tirkdjec H t fe. rnrtyanR shelf leaders uiidtt j ^rcDUhiiil
mnbrdJflt Lhr army fbimis in hill llf_ llmllandi IJrstartmani of
I'm r Vrts in Batkjgkid it ini^l the fciLLorv ujiiI syrniJm nd this
»
vpi^*de
from the JhmwfticN for the first limn la-i year, m howr vrviciujyt
i'rts-iihms and Mr* Lyndors H Johnson
"The Etbrst* were: nfniid/ said a groom,
“Now they are used to it"
I bought j jjJ.fe.-Ui him, iu^nuvd grttt)
Vfcgttabk juki\ situ Iv< hile l sipped li though
‘i piratic straw. .1 iwiiiiiimi^nci? jel ouxie Ljjl+
a MlBound I F -4t; Phnniarm elicn ,1 big
USAF i drill; fc'Lum-r.iB Fdrrhfid L-i;- lJn f
-
v i lJpf- -I ( liftoi Was J ? £ make- awu> P uerr^^ ]
—half Hi i hunt is-tr ihc Thunderduds normal Ey
seel Tliey went shut wiy often
TJic Hotel I'di irn wits crowded W ilh l SAFliOrers. Xo room .it the b^v. ^This is n roiir-
fflf Iown/' 4 major said. "Like Dodge CHy SOtffears 4U[n I flordly skill I n i atiisr 0f the Eimsr
From the 1
1
ji 1 1 1 1 . l I Ciir with it*. Fifcrm wheel.
Chinese opera, m<A Strifj-te;ise §huw_*i Thurock-V- rci
I ro-ckcf d until h a m Thun ihe
MHi-UTt started in I nc lirst jet- roared .;ic ft,
I'hf tiovernor cif Trbrn proposed newwtiyi lo he 1 1 j 1 h c f eimeB. For ex ;i mpl e
stenth -
mu storm £0 ^row turithumh “New ta tfab panni' Liu world, hut nuirvduLj- Rh;u here |iay-
1"'< baht an acre* after Jin diiv^
pay 10TI bain, after Just l J0 days Then youI p£t™ l he field liJmeu', and 111 another W days,
u^ht fin 1 h t- > ,1 31 1 1. stidk- n e |3 be another crop,
innthrr ifX1 baht f Japan ha.-, iirommnl to buyaUl wv ton Lrrow lo fefcH Iti live* (nek
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Vnfi-Ht H M udk j 1w— a ISe’tfj’r Lffc
The guvt’rnnr hud studied 41 the LondonSdtt&l nl Kcnninmiic? "My job." hi- -;lhI. %,lu ipve the people a richer batter life Thenthey won't listen tn the Lomnijmstv/'
On tht tom] to Sakon Nakh&in the nvxi
province 1 apuaE, \ was struck by I he dtisi
VTJHC’H htiin f m m I
Fig hi :i rattan pnke h nr . mfliijjrhikfl III Chtaiig Mai]fag|y|m wJl liiMp hy i|r and utt? instead tif weight, andtiiuuUe to Chinese, Fkiddh^S 1 I i
e
n l:
he mlsinji of hte
MlHiring i
I
l-tif swiitinuiii: "hi-. filsufa aruid |* «. iti
wMnr b u^Fnloc : mr Fmt^T a tewn bard b>- ihr Burtncftborder. Whm .d] hnifh their dip. 'Our yuirth* will mEBUntiln-
uiii -ivi|v toWnird hrmuL rhrnwhffLlt rtiLidanH, I hi-
India Iiensahl* buffiilo the lire llrkls ami pifih an «
.
cajEinniil i'nri V\ ith femres un k 1 h jwn,
eiei fawiwr teEhFfS hUin ;i -sniulE psuitur, ^nrl jmsls a «4m to ^ h nver eL
billowing from the rond ven fine arid guld-
en red. it bad so rallied the v^tltflion that
I wttndrltrl how t lit- plants could breathe
Bttcailifc it wa^ hoi,we had f he Citr win-
dow? ripen U'l ! ivert- ihrw—
C
eographic
phdtogjrapbtf Dean Conner: our interpreter*
Mr. fhuvrin SaraitiLm. -» Noithmstemers and
1 When it vehicle tame the other way, wrc
would quickly ml! up Lhe windowsWe toad to keep \hv windows up ^o much
of the time tl till the car became a hot ho use
Finally we ju^i left the window I u. ;uvil
stopped from time i*p tiine«m hem what p«>
lilr had to
Ashnpkiit|icT “We clean hpttjr many itnui-
a day I ml sliil the dust sset* into everything
I etn into WJU« jtlrih despite the cover*. WMlthe. ever eel the roLid pjiv
A hi _ h wny eitiii
i
\te r_JH ere are many . many
Communists. ft> not safe#! nighL some! imr^
nut even by day They keep especially nftes
the army officer*. They haven't hit any inr-
i. i oh.t? yet, IlhI they _j f l- try mu They don't
w iifit :.ol rJi l- r f LLJdd officers and h 're inner? lo
iromr here anil bnnv: prmtns?"
\ third man- M l!n >. Lei L Lhe teachers,f
Tennh t'lmummisTii* or jp ' Many ^u. Snrac-
tijnie> :i polkerristi i mne- lo teach, Some ril-
Saizc? hiLvc 'i ti i mi)'- bm no tcachon- T..ns-r week
the Communists toucht with police right
hurt. Three policemen were wounded. Vn-
body w*ie ranglU-1"
In Diiun Min. I talked to a sol-
chi-r iv hn l .n i in L an American rifle T a li-mcSrH
her, and hand frrenadcr "The j» dice aren't
enough/’ he said ^Jsiyw they need u* too"
Farther utn in Pbiumu Nik horn we *aw
more ^ildier* and many people with conical
huts Tbcof were Vietnamese. There wen-
40,000 In ihe Noftkast refuiie^*- who had
left during .ih* war against the I-rttuh tn ,i
roadside restaurant hung a picture of Nmili
Vietnam t'-vir Ppfcsrdrnl Un Chi Minh, with
offerings mI jill tjJtMS -uck ^ before :t
L dskecl u J 3 l
-
ii official about That pi«, tuir
He said* "We El, they ;ill haw urn? He is
their hero As you see, itp
s a-knud 01 religious
worship, and how can we object to cJiitH
^
Everyone i> I'm- to worship 4 - he liki 1 -
\E Ehe end of Ehi> sobering ride ut rfitcm!
the iinerd ptanohig room of Mr Bodiicnt;
i.'hmitii^cn, I iQvern&f ol Sakon NAkliun. Thesrttiniz reminded me nf i he Ministry 01 Na-
tiormf Djfvehipiticnt back in Bangkok Aroundst targe * unit! rente table were men represtftt-
ibg ilic goycmmtnt^ effort lu do somet h in jj
about the Communist*. 1 uskurd what they lEJiI.
The mi i Etary MDt '
H drMobi fe fievekppme n c
I nit, built fugd$» dug wtlis, helped farmer*
Ithprovc t rr.ip:-. Huir I imiii-n-rri l th lhr sick
A Ti u, i *r \ ta ^k rat L'd R u raJ I 'ev 1 1
1
1
m ‘.era I . w \l>
i < rvitian pm cram, doing much Lhe sanio
floth were advised find ^dso |uul1,v financed
by Am- ri- an aid officaiJs, and protected h\ uirl'M, or Civiliiin-PijiiiT-.M I fcgrj unit, TheI at ter incJ uj led an infanLr> b u±taj ioi i
,;ti [ y hv \ \
ik. a I > Army caplaui
Tomorrow said rhs- governor “\nu ran
^ce u- on i hr job."
Nr act morning we drmc from the main mjtd
to .i so-called .wcunly road, then Ut a just-
liimbed Min? road, whil h led into: an Annroad still under cor^trqcfjuo, Ami SQj lWPill iH> u.nirs 6rtmu Sak rm N ik ii mi. we walehe d
\nmrif.an liLitiLliJatoa and gmters dustily at
work, experik handled by I’hai ipage v6i,
The Thai ofUkLd mccriu partying u> said
'*U f!h good A mcrEcan equipment like this.
We can make a good mad tn k\ cry vil luge in
ibis pruvim e Then the people will be hiipjsy
rod nui iliittk about Ii ummunUm But if Wr
should l.i Live problems with CommitnliL^, wcci add send in troops in iX fcW .minulc-b and
5upp>nf3.s them."
The Tond had nearly reached .i viEJase ot
-uuiit- -iil hoLi^ arul wc wfllktfd rlterttii hay
(-hniKL h ifart tn fl ill TUrnaccil
h\ :i isiedk cMiEliirLt-
in ^peiumi ntnLhcr eii Hum 1 L:.i
Hi Iii-IilSUi- 'nil [V-ifilr -
Tfcatn. u gnvi rmnftnl Unit (hill 1 I
-Iff miihiliye are^ triifi fiut'h ^tv-lets iii iti^cIu'nI lj4, hl'eaUw-k van-
I 20 u: cllliji Pin., n rvd esfl of hi ish-yiithl wru
lug™ of Hu Hat Ie:< smndsirm l ine Com nmisliiLi
f*nm i-Eiinic hook> idi a
Ji4(Pfy ofCoinmllnkl terror
member* of n arenpte
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thej wj[| dtrtiib»
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subvert ihrir frlli>wr
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Xorlhriut, :imt. im a re>u3t, iihtlmMi Tl.uid h‘Ji trw tie* with Bjins-knt Now the kingdom
m-lii - prriflT.uFL- Id IrtiUrl rn*uL and »dx»htH eiMih pnl ice and *fm> prnlei!tl<in t rik;
wella . 1714 L spiff alert the iieupLe Lu Cfettifnim^t tai:tks
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-£p_L* \hvni u rice.” ThJfc 4o»rrlp4i*3Ti at ^hn&diLficc from ji
Thai king uf w’vrn crutuHcs lik** hnJrt* tfttt Iwjay A furl rarar 1 In mighty Mekong River tife*1*1 full of ti«h. ( iiiiiLiK of ril'e *nEfJlfp£X behind her uwai\ T faii^dii ratify
i71
Hopes and Fears in Ildofning Thailand
w .dermH ofit This ihe sejsso d . to ut i X was
hard to gei diem in market over the cmmltrail The mud wntild help But wh:ic ill t- vil-
lager- desired far more Wis -i wed.
The tisTii ini s-aid "It is very hard to dip
udb fitrfc + and we have no equipment now.
Perhaps we can build a reservoir later on U e
must make a survey Kii>ht now the program
for walrr not impurLonl im the mint"
L heard much ^riundfii talk about bow lo
iii’t more out of the soil, A hundred pnimch
of fertilizer could mean an increase of 440
pounih: Hce per acre. An psperimerual
growing .siaifoQ bad demonstrated r hi-. Vowthe task wil-* to convince the farmers.
S\mw Fin‘ld yield* Rife and Fish
The Director (jeneral of the Department of
Fisheries tn ftanghuk. Mr. Frida tvurr:L-ulP
had Lome to Sakon Nakhoa He pave mu this
pre-rii|iiinn
“Ten days after the rice seedling jre pi apt
v<\ in l he wv i c er. dtp a ditch it fool deep on one
Hide of the fields ? nd well ^ive you same carp
:n i d tmsimtm*. Bv dav. when thi? -shallow water tori warm for the fish, they
1
! I stay tn
die ditch, ami by night E key'll -wim $0 i^'cf
1 lie result will he abend IQp r»ounrij uf fish
per sere—plus 40G additional pounds of rice.11
Held shut been demonstrated tno?
“( ertainJ) iThe fish eat weeds And they
fertilize the soil"
Gwcraor Bfldaenp i muted u.s to see a pat,
a People1
* Assistance- Tc»m r the liiEtM thing
in i i uintc r- i nsurgent y . A hehcopler Carried US
into the hilh railed !Jhu Phan, meam nr “for-
ested mounting ' They were one oe She main
(.'ottifnimht birieuuLt in the Xortheast
Our flight to a small village took st-vem
in : n P E es Thf < I a y 1itfore. w hen th e PAT needed
a replacement bulb for their movie prujector,
at bad taken a villager four hours on horse-
back In gel lo the nearest toad, to pick up the
new bu.li requested by ni'Eio
The fat mm wore blue denim ami kepi
their weapon* dewe. 11vi\ had been terribly
busy. repairing house n .inti pulling up pesters.
v i P.tt EiaircitL- to men, thread to the womenclothes and shots to everybody. They had
hush a little earth dam and suggested dial the
villager', add vtancti later, -othc dam wouldn't
hi- washed away when it ruined, again.
1 met the villus spirit doctor. He led us i ri-
r. i the forest, i" a \m\ house rooted with cor
rugated iron. We were in the preserve n f the
ph po&Ui, the- protective *piril of the vdkigr.
Tlu spirit dmTivrlit a r audit1 and prostrated
U1
liiin^eir He Euld iJhe spirlr that we bad comefrom fto other place
4would the spirit mind if
We A iiyed a while anti look piiiunfi? Wouldhr Jet u^ In1 happy b apad protect
Later, thu spirit doctor tuink u- to hi* ownitosiK. lb; said that if sttaiipm Mted to pas
respect to Lite fpirtt, somethmsr wpuuld \zo
wnmg, 1 wpn nitibL-: apo, when the PAT people
b£l up their rmivir tqtiipmenl. tlkr bulb cx-
pluded. They hail not been able to show any
films Ibai nitthl
Tbe spirit doctor %mi\ that unfortunately
he had been away when the fat arrived, "r
hr w < i ul 1
1gladly hn\e infu rined tht : pirit
Latst night every bndy h rkr| unjoyed the
1 111 J Lf Lit u|
itL-r- lifted LIS over ri'kre iulJj
another vfllage. Xo hi^ti ufikinl had been
there before. The governor planned lo slay
i iv 5-i kill lie li^ - ; 1 1 i *. tIjllI ! : i iI Hi ill iu:i :-'
am dn ?
i scart him Vmit-rll C ommicnists were
known to be twu miles u\ the soutbwgFt
Our l li 1 1 -. j pt tT ^3 j u L tie J b ul k n 1 1 1 )rth . and
load hy load, all 7U mem Fjits of ihr PAT asmem Ltml «ut down tp work, obtaining Lutnrma-
lh in u i ts i r h t viEJ a c er- abp d I agin g -
The fat tftpUiin reported lo the governor:
The Oiimmuolsk had held a meeting hcr^-
two nlshfis biifnfe, lo iuinuunct our commit
Tesclies ii LfS-nim in Fulitie*
The governor maile a speech. The Com-munisi> -aid the gn vetn merit impressed thi-
fnaoplci in 1 (Jcclarrdi ijut the government fra>
helping the people. The ComTiitmbti stiid thi^
tolllUly hud been Strayed to ibe Amen cans
hi it i ei far ' E luu I an 1 1 w xs Tree, a_- 1
1
had always
been f'he Americans Were here So hcifi,
to enslave The rtaJ ciifrlaver^ wtrt the Comtmmihts—the Red VUrtnaitTr-i . ihv Red t'lu-
ticii- , , a Any questitensi' Note,
The governor said r"Jr'a^s out the clothes."
A wnriLin m the front rou- said, **i loot!"
That evening, in the clearing m front of ' hr
school house, the FAT set Iup 4 mo^'ie screen
The movies drew a g^od crowd. One film wo^in i 1 1
l
i r .l mdtliim, a tnuJilti mil] ij_r - -iHU
play, showing how Communisti came wiib
friendly words, then terror] zee! with guns
The captain gave the governor aiiutfirr re-
pun Five vMUgETsr wer? known to he armed
( mlc man hurl my>tyrioii^y left the vilJagit
T'be audience walked hame, carrying torch-
ci, ',uv\ we beddaf down jn ibe ffiEkouLbmi?t?.
More news’ 17 buffaloes had disappeared
Riistling was common, buE not IT at a
tfrmL \\\r- thi* n Red ploy lo enibarriis- She
gEivertior'J Or to draw away r.ortu' uf utif
In tbtf dark the miiLaijt fiddled wit b rhr
t&din I v k L ii
.
1 1 . i r i i.i
j
\ the Communal **V#t1
1
"f the F^oplt: hi Thailand/" ^pouting propa-
gaiidit imm Red Chinn. JWarmonger L> ncl-iri
Jofm±op. I rmidt Pfripas" “War cnmirnii
Dean Rusk”
li wiL
$
n il^uriLMirlipK night, bui wish .1
end Tin buffaloes returned >l 1 I'.iwn
Hur hid Leo pi tr had seared them away.
] traveled 1 m t hr 13 1 4 y h l hr Norl beast, rtJ 0 iii c
1 fir high bank- nf tlit MnLhcr ki vef Mrk-c.mc
I visited mum wai> and I .lnnn I
men in Litown Lit1 ret- phd rtd brretl
wmt black bfcrtf& and were advised ta*
\miTiriin- 111 green l!n, ri ,
i>
\1 n*S I > iittk1
1 o ( be bonming t uw 11 1 Jt l I 1-11 n
RiLidiatliniii. near time Irouliteapinr frantkt
with (.’iimbodiSa \ E>oridt :
e
dispute had tHnjn
formally Settled* Im 1 mlVkniiurs, I wai luL(l r
wen- still seeping through. I drove past the
big airbase n r,he nut terminal -tart boardedthe evening Jruiti 1o Bangkok,
\i mjdniglu the tram pulled Into K hnr.nl
Hieft Ibe piived FritiuUhiji Highway h rid peel
the I tm ks. stretching north .ill the w .iy to
t -ao>- Nearby bugler I .1 haiz airbase and the! S Armv': L>th Logistical 1. uiittmimd badiii- kpiled equipment fpf an entire infant n,
tlftnUicm, just ;n ease
.Ai e
I
n- 1 min jjovffed into dawn, my nirtrinnes.
kepf me atvnke-
Memnnrs of ibe island nr I'hukeL downsmith, where Mr J-iiiJjphfc McNair from Aabtu-
biiltt, Ohio, waut m cliargi- uf I he new tin
crueller. He hud sHith
"Twor&t! irixh kettles Wfn? shipped inAcnions upmeet: At home, we d mi* ,1 sf.Mun tttuir
Pi unload them 5 1-erc. rKi crane They told me,
don 1 worry*,well get them <0 the smelter
-owner nr later. A week I pier tlnw 1 Ini I'M
tiever know how ih\ry got them cm those two
id nit'dak ulnni^ 1> ii-liry ['liim-
Miniiii-i Pmpas t h;irv^EttNn on Hit* King’*
birthd:*.) He Elko serves u* Mlmjftir of Hie
ini t nor nnd Gatnmandtrr lb CMef of the Ajinj
he Loaning for § imu|<Pf a 1 'lunexe near ! :i_tj p;
in v a >sii:k o| im: i:n ti.1
\<i up In hi- water pipe
toaliii Irifu'STiiun of il 1 • tir-Tth^rn Mb 'msil
with MUiiJfi lojidrr .toil rc.il*. <hcsitlscd sWCifd
Hih oE srker i 1 i l wl’-JiJi. nl « L.i-u.
whose irJ-besjCTple dwell in ridggCop ^tlJiii;c±.
Bubble gum wplucw betel hw ;i Mn-iemmaid ol the usoeemusii -va^iiitrS MaJay
Huss ^ in the hair lid) Unit Ihi i£irl 11 m- tour-
Chinns Mui. friiuwncii for b^jiutliful wunirn
c - • ULi StrH.br, Jt til
rk
~
truck*, They reulK are an ,imaging pp^iplr .
11
3 thought. nt Lhe 7S- Year-old princes who-inked so well I hat -hr Imd recentU bean
I by thr royal h muse fluid in prepare a
meal for ihe visiting King of Itanmark. Slit
k l|
<l putting: morr at her pfmR beeng on myEiiiue, hi 1
r m m i n g gl o ri rs I riw
\
• n haStvr He
r
Scrnie Highness kept ^uvinK»"LYuu rnusi yatr"
JuhI. like my meat her
And him could I forget the fittlr novice
who watched a_- I tuJked with the lord tibboi
in Thai PhariiMn? 1 mktd him what mitdr his
jitniic so wide
“Vtiu h" he1 slupI
4You arc so big and ftd and
t nl kii live.1 ’
H-ain't he nwi .my bitr,tat, talkative ThM?
"Ndl in l hi* hiw it."
Perha^ I hadn't smiled l>a* k widely
enmiuti, herause he added quick!), "Hh yes,
some here arr fak and souse do lalk a lot
bill h rifle like you'”
Would ihc^e capable, kind people fall vic-
tim in the political mLtliannnrio erf n;ur age?
Huy til ( loTinnund Iktihcfc the Spirits
Al thr end of my >Uiy in Thailand I was
ushered into ChdaiLidit Palace, die rc*idrmre
ut Kim: Bhiirrdbol Aduly^dej'
Sitting in a l.uuls XV drawing mntfl and
dressed in a dark'bliie business iiaak Hii
Majesty talked to me oi many things—t>f
rmids T of cmpSp of p^ycholop "f spirit, nnd
of the tmjiortaiirc of I he famiU hi times of
diunpe. W lia! 1 1 u: tountry needed must. Hi>
Majesty said, was good mhduk And tbun
Htii Majesty (old mi- -i story
Veiir Mu- -ui timer pul Lice a I Ihu* Hin, along
rhi- CitlF nr slum. u. medical officer «ha hbwork entiling*:red 3i> t umxnlmists 13c- la* kril
l)ix m l- ;
l
ns In do what Hi* though t necessiiry p
and he was downhearted. Should he simply
sit by while i tiings got worse? Or ptrb*jw gu
tpBangkokand look (nhi?-iiwti ad vance merit *
Mi'- Majesty heurd uhcmt th.]^ tram ;unl
wenl to see him 1
.
i4l save Him ihe funds he
needed And 1 -aid t>u him, fc
J forbid you io
become discouraged'1 11
V- my fiJiiiie rose from J Ion Mining Airport
,
1 ~aw die -.im burning away r hi- ha/t from tJn 1
mj.u Her howl If only thr political haze
would lift fro mi -ill Thailand. That morning
I bud heard that the Comimiimii had become
newly active dose to Bangkok, too. Then ini"
tuv mirdcntnc ibe words of the Kinu 1 turbidr
you ru became di^rmi raged 1
1 was going Home to u fax- nw^ay rcpnbtic—
but I would often think of Thailand m i!ay>
tip come and 1 loo would gladly hrred that
royal command, t h t £\n
England's Scillies,
the Flowering Isles
By A I AN VILLIERS
tthisinjmmx hy Nafttifwl iihofogntpht'f BA1ES IJ 1 1 LLH ALLS
Lite a Pi-ed Pipw^ farmer fulling a lu*rny wv\kx hirr- fopnHftg gitllf u> 5 rtt?wrr fklil lift
iht bliiJid uf St. ffiAiy**. Huish Tirw.n. tin? Inutilet-sue capita! id t hr lik* i>r Si illy, dssthe hill bryrrnd. Warms'll frv Gulf SiJTfam waiirr*. FSH inis’* ikiHlo blofiis Like ,t -
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1
1l 1
1
I 76 wintiT and draw ll hunt nl iim-mnd -p-wd hivi-rs in -urnnict
EACH YE W the* hiidk thr hotel,
same rijpin for the nest year—suae hed T
IoQl if they am act it,' said (.'dpt \A .i
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I
mn 1
1h i 1 1
ji
1tarl^r metier uf t he m 1 11 > Is!
I unELJ nil pmudh ,jL the pint size bu.-dinv
h®rW u f Hugh 1 ow ri,^ t Miin '
-
hum: qucm- of iim-bniiL'd vfeitwr* *welined i.i
1
1 .l1 sin' tie put' lilt jitum? ?*teps kmiinff
Im liic husky open molar litiinr hes fhal serve
the islands JVrHy w-mnn-. In beach attire or
l hi' dn iM-c^t at xbuNs hurried duu^1 the -loot1
quay, -lieijherdinp their chflrJri'n, while tile
menfolk * nmed picnic fofistwl* };tm-p^i. kei
J
with provender Sue ji week. ttojltnen with
: lrortg faces hushily bewhi^fc^red ;ind wind-
Wththe t ud to the to1or of oldmahogany whiled
it they helped their oistuniera aboard.
Yw these v^csdioner.s the L-iles of Srilly
i pronounced sOlySi 'inly 2$ mites from the
T.rnlHiw* slLjm dp uf TilnghijiC arc n liri'iun-
world arrhipeLi^oi tmnp h pup? LU), Thr eli-
matc is unique ill the British isles, in winter
ft L> itftwfl US warm a* Lht^ Riviera. Brilliant
dowers bIon pi in January, -iJirl i n such pro-
i ijj-iini> that 'hip/Eient*. ru the Kndtah market
art the Saillie.^ chief export Bur ith*svt id I,
the illy d wellers* an? ktfed by I he isolated
hrnchfli, the quiet, and the p&LCti. l ticse
diiihm make the Sd3 lies the favorite holiday
haunt of rS,(XXi visitnm a year, among them 11"
li'Ji WHi.ln*! < i> *u * ,iJ h i m Itl
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htMuv of vaiTAlicmt. r* 14ns linul l\>wn iiMin m an
aftefl' T'i 11'
1 1 1 1 1 '( MafV's th-ey wliiriiiU} pliant" ar -I
hdkrpttt nr -ait from Pcnzijnri?-. m -niithWPMPrn Tncliod,
«Ma£'42 csilef til JttfttiEfaUAfy rtHigh wall" In mifiTtk^f, ^Miciai
oft<m -uutnuiTrtier iht Scillies1
i.tfOO icui^lejLLs
Ruddy slump nE smi T wind, and salt fiuprhrtA Elbe- jwniuii tm £
11I bcMi ii^'ii w liti upcfql# it ferry tijmJ i-ijiuedhi; tcrvke he tween
?L Man sun! 1 l.r liuit-f i-!nnd* \‘:n iipatiu^ rew fc-^rc *-n wai- 1
they rttFiUc ;t \\<td jimvurl’K l nr tiyery m.tti whw Hie- ftaiuraJ
rifllE.ll i'll I hr S*Li 1 nU. 1
1
li l.illfr i ri 1
1
1;
0ri«l fcelji prm id* % h phtyChim; pri^yr, rdn Eji n or. re- ii
f iMirrl is I lv Ui c rnr mill) SLiLLuiilam Biiminj; eIlc in
*1one Jiu.rd jhL=-. ibjuy -hij n >rc3 the inl^-rjrh adi 1
1
• Biitiih I veto
titi> Bias ^rmiuu ’l 14-1 urn. Map, aawl Jttafefriiirc Today Kril.un.
imports Li* -rjdu Mr mnktb it vUt micdlly
I IS
1
n
EngljgrtTs Sallied, the Flowering
Prime Minister Harold WTbonhwho a
modes* faunipdijw inn il plot near Hugh Town.V ( aptaif) Phillip.' and 1 w litcheij, the
Lawn 1 1 l-.” lyinp five abreast at (he hartrctr -.tups
tilled up hh her- waded off in take thdr turns
Tht- sea was calm and the water hi dear 1
• oufd sec.* tht wu iinemi>nt> and liur nicks And-hells mi chi' whim ?aml ii
1- i!' there hud been
tu> water there at all Ashon: R0 $mok* rose
my where in vjmidge tSw ^ I tar dr imd thr
hotel?: and spiesthmisrs brtckinj: on. the bench
itkramH in ihe bright >un.
s )nl.stde the harbor the sea was a deep lur
I'luoise, deceplivti> j^enile in apjtcunima But
I )fnew dial dangerous cross tides rncsd
among the iiiyriad rhck> uni i-ldJ TheSatins iii' tuilr ! 4d islnnids^t'if which ini.lv five
arc » [j h Lib Ltf_ d no one has counted the FLxk>
Shades of blue in sky and hcadt'ttgJhEcd the
lib
c>l\ setting ofT the hard lErwiLie of the Utaiidi,
nnrl heather purpled the hillsides of St. Mary's
Gulls called to each niher nokil) in the mpin
-tTET-i mI Hugh Town and, after the moriimg
rush to the bar bur and Ehr bn. if- ihaL waSnil tht noise 1 he.aid.
Benches Aplenty fur Alt Wild Seek Them
qu see the crowds "*n the quay, the filled -
up laitticht^ said CsipLliifl Phillfps. hiil llwn-
.irt1 ftill plenb of bt aches for c vrryborh U h>
,
if 1
1
1 ll> find twti |ir three !•-.. p!i already on .l
bL-ac Si . they jusl walk on in the next11 Bui iiiir Sc ill its lire spall We Hun'l warn
in Lxct too t^opuhvr Thh turner wpeTve even
had li few qtiL'iie- Wc don> like that
The Sciiiy Island* are Indeed small. St
Mary T
-,, UitEfc-t of Hit 1 ilili.u ilnl idiilirts + I-
two .ind halt miles lume m a mite and a hsitf
M| i.Tt*MlfWIPf ri Hilt L7TUHU1 ^ 1 « %
I' u 44
L
bnojur More than 1,400 people live there pcmoneotly 1 hr
ol her inhabited island? ;in B all Thun hall' >t Mary'- Ait\
wi i h Pia rrily moretitan 400 residents imtotig i hi* k i1 ! n anrictrt
liiky- men oKis lived on Knrru1 of the l$l3tids now Hivra up to
?c.d- irul m'4 In r 4i- , Lt- BroiUe Aire relies attest
The Reillies group h purl of this I hiehy of CornwuR Mir <-
tli c Dtike 4 3 F Cor rswal I is nl ?i t be Prinre of WaJcs> I h l1 bl .l mis
provide some of the royal revenue1 ?
OdiEJni pnb. - is to keep 'he Sell I its in their trampdl bc>-
1 . li i
b
lm Nmis’. ni^hi lift and promoted taurif^j lltc nmwanted Holiday camps and t rni I «. i jurk? do mil exist. Theiminmubik has become o minor problem* however, for the
hi.mliL-r ni motor Ythicl^ has risen sharply in recent yea rs
to more Lhmi JStt. St. Majy's has nine mik? of paved
roLtd^aJl tinrrow, w i odinu > btdge4l uedT pin is nrdstnirtU for
die florae, demanding careful driving The other islands
have virtually no roads Among Iht M Ultes Use \mai s- the
car and the motor launch The bus.
[ here are three way? m reach the islands \ iso may comeby sea, by flOOdon motor ?hip from Pbn&mrp, some 4J: itnli -
awav in the- itiiffcwt orF Cornwall Vou con sail in a small yacht
From Irdand, or [ranee, if you am .in cpl the
m'
$li')] pi njtS ^ 11me i hitc 5-: !
i pjit-rhr*" k-
erifd Rrvm‘[\ Trewo, St. •Helen’',
and Hound Islam!. with it? Iklit
hi>u-e hi rhi- dkstiiiiL't;. litr hut N
mile* Irem Kagland's. Miuihwcurn i
tip. Ojh e, tLNfh li li^end, .« fountni aJird LynpocEsr linked the SeiI lies
with hngkihd. ami *>r, Jk- maw-v 1
3
lie. bed §ol1 K i ria ArtNor'* km%huwait'd HwMli'
.
lp id a.i>i rebellion- Mr
Mndtiii MtriiMlu ui^rd, rhont-
eil monk words that mndr l*ytm-
nLv^c -] citL, djuWni&g 111 \i refrn1 !--
Th* k light* fiUTiii nrftU ur. litefci
ground todays SciiltuH
M sir iriiivi- I.'. S I W , rv1
?
4mt even iht Mauitlerf
i It if!- One iftatft Boftrl Rrilish
f j|r(icf4 jhaped it ohiul L Si ^
Much mists shroud Hygh Townfi? if hnileirls mcr 1 a liny rloir tttfO
tidt limsJjlEfi >anck
til! l AMi /
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LlU'if nunw i>K tbt'nry Imldn dial n rScnvp- fram
i fd'jp, u\ <Virm-h wtird for cnnipir cd mnatbrr
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111 .LlkC- tllllffikiil* IjliiMiiia .Ll
hi* cnmniaurl V r rw- ! ^lect-
mn plain i I ci 1 llr Imj4. Ilr
iemulate:- Hirst blooming In
icirifti-nKunf control ScElv
fltiWtff Jifcrmr.rs -e 1J ahum Sri
mii'imn bJoofm n v.^-rar T hrce
of Mr U :n r|‘ | iriie w minTjj-iprar in disrf-tlji LLl'.iVt
fewn nipt. Wjiitf Linn, !:bs-
hiiiiter. anrl Pcuhcrth
W h n i ntrwfcqi « I dqffttcf l \>
to I be islands? Tim e- tfb-
sdireii hks irletilily— a monk,
[H, rh.b.p '»
1iir i iiRintisa: hulcb
'^;i tii]rLiiin tbmdrtx -iiy
thuE .1 hiitboi nl 'ini-
L, tlufFodHs E,r-:nf !l ru.u-' '
in (jLiTiiinn about HXi *. ear
>
;niii ill spine r! tin- in-
tiuhlry—
j
rrmin^E.iv of lIjl-
eameTTiy by Ehr [^30^
ui
HwUliing, Mtii ikl Decornbtir duffmlfls i .l L t-ciitLith Ik \tnr"
;iii> a •, >ur
riiUHiird hr iwnw d h right Hmver ami blur w iti.t ^dNiinitsns Imhi lo rtwi 1 boaU anO
-i
1
1 p I'm % will' vH'i-if ill F.v^pmm j«nrtci::l plunk1 front mv*wic ivJiuL* Mlhouisb
nrden-tl b\ tka Briddi Liovemmun! 1j> raise umn ve^ftahlif? ussd fewer Row^« during
U'iiiIiI Mar IS, t(il| ECt -.muI bwtlig bl to '( iu'- i hungry KnsrUlod
il '4 ?#! -l u^-i-ir 1L t—|—
|
tuning around Line Admit h alinUM always
offers id I hi pm' tfatws Or you nui fty—Irani
{’erttwre* a JO-tnbmte trip by hd'ionptcri nr
fmin Xiliv[}uaV In pbnu! lying Jh the wl memorable wiiylii comp
The SciJIies ari! nil rocks and Hills, itttr S: mint.'
has ft really Oat field oi jury size, ‘Hie one small
A ir i teh!cl s n u> t
h
t brow o f a ^en hi S Inta
r
Hugh Tnwn A sign -ays, ”St \irpm-t
Keep m ihu Roud/1
which Htems a^ftmd ad-
h. iL'1- ^tortlielcs-s tn have Jir-! View uf
these Mes from the mr is idHil.
VMis I his. i he Fjififed Ly^iUL’fjttl
V my tihineratnenycTlhrm i-Liinbodi-T^
jinl riH bol 411^4^ .mid -emsed idkiiil
in the dent Wider E amid apisraihite hud the
inf,
i
j 1
1
1--. haw *a pl'a 3 bv*ubsi 1 1 cn r.‘t? nndstdftnva pr
SCflu srmy formerly buve been a, single lund
muss Impend Kelts thal the fair fields of
Lytmncssc once slirtthcd irum Ornw ill if
?
i hr Srilli^s, thwugh mhnhm< aver tb*d .hi*
I i nk w i i h E si d ami cn
1
1 rd kin u I a*fntr itwrt s
* fun l n u ^ ct The i • IliimU jre urn hiuhted I \ ;t con -
rlnmiiii n id die anuiifv harkhum d 1 unman,niiikini' a final ^hrutit abovii the sea tad'Cne
rfroppiiii; icirt'vcr hue the Ariaittk depths!J lVoph have lived hurc since lung before
the t'hrMian Jirn.r my banker friend <
J
ynt
Short of 1
1
uu;h Town told me AS we tramped
Si Mary\ nliuir^ (End lul Ir Mr Slinrt hTmM ,
ll
iti-iifies to Lht* ^Unu tion af Che SoF Iil-
Cnme mi i i"n.rr j1 "
1 vt-ath jjq JJad sliiyed.
h"Mc n m,ik hiive Let-ii hufe s'or LOO'MTarsp
nr more” hr said "WtM't L'm. almusi three
t ime h a x ma ri v know n Anne n I bnria I r ti amhert
:i*- in .ill tlw re>i pf t'nrnw al?—^ i^l ihttttt
Tln-yVi Suren hrfr .U loa^l two iind j ha]!
thodSiillll years, so the iircheoEoirists IttL ns.”
We w alked uver ihc tEun^ 1 And bnidtiHi
manlJed hilt^ on tkt spring# sandy earth
lh*l C6V0TB must of the gTAnjle. The purple
s
\l:ili \ jLIIiij tcflli ill !lU LFaVL‘l infttt '(^WT |i»
Crim^iiir imlm Vmcmr Hid ni^-tmthh
].U
iieuihrr hiy u> (hick us in the liisrhbnds of Scotland, and yk'i Ifl-
Jlnwer' "Eiuli'ij jtUanusniL A drararlisl1
* light covered ihr Linrt
am! sal wcmnkTfully "ri Ehr LUL-ulhc-d blut sen Offshore a&w$k-Uni fttutfk tii/fil !?i Rjiujrhlfc huM i l IW i tmjkiUK
Like scalars nu i luwn- Hi-sh. fe&rteidy rinse r\\YYe snneiu
jiri^ for I hem; t hey know it Well" .--aid Mi Short ^
Quraf tor Immortality Muder Soil Sacred
Nnl«f4> i l- V\,|‘ lh sight .L:- Wti -11 'Mi'll I'i.-I 1 1. Mirk
iJuvun in I nnk ,d tlu: nttdrnt burial chambers tln-rt 1st -Nine,
which were oin'ci ixs-mJ for franatidn, rcniaJm of ft) or more*
huridJ urn* have been found The be^^firearrvtd chamberTumi*, a it m
M
im I -W let1! Escross und 5 feet hi*:h nuirii1 witblurue
lipriizht >lopev 1
1
1 :
l
i ieiu- 1 h;ivu taken ji Ini of mnnhnnrflmj;"
J lu'ti js itlicLii-vjli.il Uark !it the Ito itch ihest'fcljiirb
were it imrinJ place for dislc mi niched iIim-J the l^untk M the
Hlemd* or tltt Kitrumtttt teles/1 Mr Sliwtsafr.E HTlie kfcu was
i hill dead chiefs an ri other hernia tmaEd find immurra-lity heroin sight of the ^4 . among srrnw of quiet beauty
"
1 knew nF another theory— that tin: Srillie* mark'
m
ideal
liunal pl.ru- fur i hief> toci. iLLf-« the tm h-iiL-hrlit-
l
kd rkp irli-ij
a Hint* ii iljLi I eh ii crtis.5 ivulur Those chic fs Were u/ten turbulent
c hurst t*ps One lifetime Would be enough nf iheui
£ h .ill thv frillies' historic ruoniL intuits, M? Short wa* rjcitJ
tuifhuskstk about one un 1 he1 small deserted irinud of Xomour
"I'.nirr, rbrn, if h *c jka
^
yno, and w eEtoirtrr tiivi^ a
plaque ai Tit- «l a Abbey iriKhtl,
a hump hi i ill ntfftr the $\Lt of
4 nitxheval tiiffcri^-ii.'t-e-Ty. \cwlirim^by vriJJatyc iJiiilcrr br-
vipntl re lI
C
PlHil a frtL^h-wiitrr
1 Like A I ?tb-teflitEiiy towertatln! I rum sve 1
1 CjUlle
tju&nfc 3 hi 1 harbor TIie man-dou ’
1
1i * ni^ - In Li I nTriflt
2 M Dorfwli Smith, H X .
Hiu delXh Uu 1 eland's fourth
Jesuit, whn iVtiiTK-L Ijeirtatb aportns i t of liix mrjii-giv.il
nns'lr Auptdh rjmith
\ Hertbirdiiliire vqufie, \ 1 1
-
IMMLIj. kii>ed .lL 3 line SrHIiffe
tiiim the E Vown in LS 1\
bif4 Prsiprii!trvr B liv I mill the
Ercut iiou-t.-c'E joe its farmon*
pnltlVi ami mUnducrd mm--l J li i-i i I in e He .jie<i| ,i
liEuzhelcBr and tti-e ttk>,
lip htt lies'll itw who tfitiyh
SjhlieiJ Lhc fewer IrKtu^lrv
V mni iL^nerl in ''JJ I
Sftv r. i lif Smith beint Mie ekIp
of Tre-j;ti fnr >'r ar>i flusiigh
in. t [3Ji j L-Lintm3 pjI dd&aiirJ tlie
n-iltn- irhahiTtil I’Lirnb n^uwtth an ckdd rnursEi! AnOllier .inreL'mi'nt j\w ;in
|
i.-i| die
fflimfh ctr^iody nf T h i" Si' iiI it'-
llni nh jihitei.L t - lajsd - 44 n J Ku. ki
Nation ill Geographic, July, 1%:13 fr
fiifSt oft SI Miirtiiv% r ntirthtTPmn^ nf iht in-
h ^iJ*j|itfc
r| fs)r- fn a heavy gLik from ah
unusual quarter eausei I ^iwu
s
tu w .l>Ji awa>|fWl of ihv Ijcinrh on Pfornnur. exposing a
series of upright stones tm^ceii l^diPtc, obvtiHoly inif thfcrr hy roan *pnizu 14J
)
a' \< HM>a 14- the -ubmili'i! . I im hi I 1 ,1 ti i •
i•.
1 1 1 uked carefully at IbtSfr * Mr Short tdd n»
‘Thtiy but ml LWti cufiuus brwcks and n
K 1
1
m cm coin Excavaiim rtv ta3 i 1 1 fM w<i-n >ombuild! ng with hearth? and inmli furnace:?.
Tjteft - 1. 1
1
hf-J - found tumv r> Nan 70 coins rad
i iuarly 4( JtI brivi jv he-. ill *= Roman titnv- Ttiv
place Wii? u tegular jewelers sltirr!'’
liter the found il was muchnli U* r III.in that l"bt' building had or Lin illy
been a Sfor^e Age dwelling; Iron Age ocru-
pant* partitioned it am! added I he heiurths
and fumaL'ei
Roman -era tradeis, daird hy i h c. i r Loini,
ail ot wbrchi arc fram A T>- to J75. i i:ne monathan a Thousand year- after the Bronze \tit'
btnJcltr> arrived, and abpuf 4 m >^iir- after
tbi- Iran Age seldmAW h.u - r. I 1 1 ir vear> how these Jjdumii
may have been l!ll' Cas:dr.i: rides— 1 he tin fs-
LonJ 1-. m tlir nnoentis—how the Phoenicians
may have traded here and ibe Roman.* an lt
them Sin riv - about ihe Islam!* pf t he Blessed,
the Si. I ilia 1'tiMila whrtfti heretic Were laan-
ish-gcL LyoJinesAGtami all thu ra>t havr been
bks&cd About for coni Lines Bui the pJwrkrrX
store cm the beac h at Norn our is real Three
hundred brooches ? They weren't for Inc 11
Vi i Oh i] in|Minn This wtl- an undent I railing
Liljure Such a discovery has never l^fore beenmade in Britain/
1
(cwdiir'i Clientele Et Pia?*]*
E found many of the best finches in the
small roUi-um at Ftugh Town One cmitm*fin iliKe-and'emmiel spririmL'N is shaped like
a hnr^Pt with wing- growing froni h s!u ud-
ders :tml a fish's toil.
J hr t uni tor showed me . splendid u heel-
shaped bruocbf Inlaid with mmute cnton'il
•-Mm"-, pojfe h m T'hsn pputkulnu pier *- %v:v-
probahly mafic at in what is nowEh-, Lium. in a workshop wbh II nstperfc know
bumet 1 1 h ?\vn i n t h e mi ddl r 1
1
1 hethirdcen i n t y
I wondered wh«m tht? jeweler of Xornourfousid bia> b ^ Perlmp- jt«> une \\ all e% er know
.
tor thh L- min: pf ' 1 1 *. m LLnv fLiscinLLllit^ my*,
i*lies Wit h w h tch the Forte i l;* [ i I a fir.nmi
I lower Industry Fhihe^ i M winter
J-rmidty may him lieen prtnuini of rn ^eil-
lommn trade lonp ago—ami. Inter, highly or*
gammed smmujrEittit and the more prosaic kh*fan r: v. and kelp burning ror sudAd*b—but for
the past yeurs l he spring-dower indu^tTi.
i-i-. been u miiin-Uiy of the felMids. \hnul a
hundred yrant ago on enierprising |ol ;l! re^i-
dent first sent uff ; l hnme parte I u f Hnff'rtHiU
to "i srkei in London and goi buck half a
crtiwTii Tlm^ hrM bum be5 h tbe> say, reac |i imI
Covent Carden in u battered old hnibos. hut
when the hotbox W^lfi otieaed* the shining
gulden Bowers msfdc lit up even the fgjpcsof
the sj.Usrten, SrrlluTfjail Inffodils lidiL1 been
firtnaani! hizht and warnilh to u.i-itrr Engliihmi nn^ ever since
tr
rtiui pioneer really started something
The lingTe hatb^sful ha? inertiiv,
-Lfc
il to SO tntt-
liuit blooms iu -s mm —handreds of tun- ut
fluwcts, all iTown In iht Optn/' Mr kudhey^Varrl nl NiLrmimdy on St Mary ?
s mid ii"
ipace l.tJ'h AEr Ward is the grandson of
W 1 1 1 E :i 1T1 B.lfrneM , &h Li LI f Nn r rHU rrlv, one of I tl I
UOB ^
best m take up the Ruwcr trade Air Wmd b1 1 n ted ,is a deveJojier uf pew lypec qf minimiand dafiodib. for which his firm, Rndrkr^' WW.'rd & >an r Ltd., holds many pn/es.
“Here i lmanc, an\ t ud maybe something•
I -i - not jo easily recopiizabSe—perhaps -ueiic
quality in msr sunai it .—mn'liiiu in
beautiful finwer^ L^pcnrUlIy wonderful ti-r-
etsN Thejf bluum uiirh and the> tmvel well.
"Our season bogim in Nnvcmbar with ihc
I irntidful Sottif dor oardssps, ^ives u- the
Magmfiizem'e daiTddil i J i Jnnns+ry 4 and ends in
May with irit li , inkr> ISO.iW bulbs Lq pbmterne jm fe, ftfld we have acres in hulb^ Snrhtre is a lot mi i ;hhmi in it, And work !
11
\\i' were seated comfortably' in rile |i4r2:;r
jiE Xumiuinb Kor I ne> WardJits wife* hj^sL*
ler-in-law and .i yuiing nir! irom Hoikipl b
bulb indti'atry,over Eli learn hnw thiiit!- arc
Uncreding n Gve-iuol marauder. MuLtN^w l 4?thbndgfc tugs a ecitigcf fmm Ofttcrf thuijl
i luli>ttT | nit:- he SiiiuU d,Jiih nrf Rock Like -his lather biHnrr Iieto, the loli^termanl.t a voUrnTtitf coxswain of the Sl Mnfj r
s lifeboat. Which ttill snatches mari-Iier.i imm 1 He M' a '- fi i
rv Rtr duly, W he li the Iji n fctrThnVy ( 7fl n yrJ-n fiiltd 0 p aiear i'l it £* i llir*-
,
Lei hi 1 1
1
11 Hr and Nk iTt* V» to Ike dcSChU II i- iiri I Hat WtdtpWWlill^Ry 4^j1^ 1'r>r %i hoUn
Hik1 picking up 12 uf dnr vessel ji Indian crew men, » j tic of whom LuiflL*d on Sr. Marv'--
- -Hi' I
done Ha the Srtlliiit, A* far the wtjrJc PI hud
seen >o met Iieeiiz o L' L h nt oj i vnliuu * v i sitv
—
tHrbaekhwskiiiiic picking b fling. cleaning >urt-
inffi and grading t hm bulbs; rhen a quick dip
irj bitidnp waiter i«> eradiate the eelworm£msme of (In- lifted bulbs are reftigefutcd
i' T Hjme Ei trse, to 3* ml them i e 1 1 « » beiti.ving they
have had winter told m anise them lo ilnvu-r
earfiLT Old lukIch*round furlMki forli
fled no lunger, are sited rm r. hi- |nrriio*e
Trim mini; ihfc high hedges (has prima l the
flower fields from uunih k un tuber fiuet of
iln work These hedge* ot vi-rnm™, escah
Eoiii^ and jiittusponim prou Up 15 feet midmake a lovely tf^klriboard of the shelterr*!
sides at the larger islands Without tfatfm. the
i rutile blooms would stand little chanceagainM the h«rrl Atlantis' gaJo.
Ei ilt we yarned aver ten. wr lookedLhmueh u ropy of tin GEOGKAPfnc for l>e
ceraber.. which hutl an artii U- m i the uar-
dftfi iak% of Srdfy. Many of the old color iljus-
Irutmnt -vit-ne mark- lit Mr VV.irdV lidds rtnd
1 J8
nE R^isevcar M<ii Iilt we#jp thi1 fcmby ur
three week*, ibftlit the dm* stick adult hair
nrjjbu'c* vidriir infant I'm Several aray *?alf
£ uifiliE in 1 1 Lf ftrrry t '(iHTPfls dogglFip. oil
Wn* plucked [firm dir -ru ntT Cornwall amigtetn ii kith hy helpful hum mi hatirb
t ill 1.1 1-
1
-vy *d Idtti kes t 1 .
i
j ranjei: ru: i
I
’I u 1 1 then B€flj mm the ? torTfi
-
l^Ic 111-*- Ii pu>fj|r
of Si Kc3eisTn Tlir.y ihpre ihr island**
1
smic-
tii.tr> ill i i iirteoTiwte, petrels .luL\ andU'dilM3 t n.-, wdl as will many EtturJ bird'
packing in him-:- Hu- Ward- n-nignlrtcd the
im - "f the petit*- ii.n-keri, the *4!iilmuLfcd!
mizn working the fields, %ml Si- MuryV lonepoliceman, fXv>w there- urn- two pulkgmett,,
plus a third during l lit! busy summer seasonJWe pun se £ I *nd
!y o s^e r the pin 1 1
1
re >< i t he old
E • >w iii iTiLj rp nnW dnurl; he wai Hugh rowti's
ML Ur?piiper, rittiLib Jtiul bulklin buiiril all rolli-ri
hitci ,i vi>i i Fei> iiis belJ-riiagiiij! mw Radlp bcommou tu-l.: und there ait niany bullfflin
I ins u nt»w towtl trier atrn.es an
Gidjd^n ( .rnv From ^tufiirvfs f -ils
%
Fur even mure Hmithtakiiiir finmf of ihr
iunv pruLu>ji.ui of 11owttl?d l^euuty in
the I-orl untile TsTatjds, you must *no ii.i the hit
called Tre^fu .iEirl vi^ii ii* foninstic Abbey(piirden? Trwro, al) of? ncfts of it. Ges m Full
vieti? of the n nitlate ur i afFSt Mary Gloriouslie ;iL'bc> and hivrly link Hii>% the metlievLil
sNdttS -it “i'resco Abbr^^ a cemph- of m tried
castles, sofne "Id iiuurd coltuees eon-
i 'Tied into ,i wondcmJ htwA— ;tdd tn iFiesc
I IrmiiLike pul (iii tripl'd pay r- ttih : I h
r
Si: lILh- : i. S III I4l1l Cctllury Kli£lL*h^
fnth ihie LsiriSi meat—iititf CtrttCii cal jl
La ri
|
l- I
>
i
1 n - .«f 44 in -'n hi- 1 Lav- kirn: Kftwafd 3
required an Amu pi payment el J.QD birds, or 6
4iiEllru:i. H pome* fmm Kstmtlph Htancm miter,
i lit*ji euplabf ei SciIIa hi^plle hw* pmErrlimi
the injintt^L their number!) slrsuJih dwiiulEc.
RiSgcvE of I III- mimiiiiili ihni breed iviKl in
thr MnLi=h tsk -, £tj\ siioi- Icill un xa witeheiJ
4mml t A t:lu 11 n mi 1
1
- >u a* Id i n g a- u Vj f iini I
mrigli n* much as 6JLQ ptMJuda.
pn* *- v* .41#- rP filer 4C31B BfllL . IITLI IiAlS I H JlJ.
ii man dmi- climate a.ntl fertile Hill, j rj E there
1 5 'I reico V( i zo by bcml , .ind w hi en you (tel
itien: ynu walk And We I hr; walkingForuLmusi Livrnbiry. i Mill I l^l.ihc Srillu,L
,irh- MrJtlrulInd by like- Smsth farmH . whu(iffle fruni lltrttnni^hiri! ill England n> I _.i i r !
Proprietor of cIm. Me? WirusUs Smith mtidc
Inis. Ei (i tut on Tre*co in the iS.trt'-i amt began
creatj ng the \bbej i * n rHchs I.- 1 and - eu nic
n
brought him plants*, rulting^, ami seeds (mthen iny^ii. His nephew, T Algernon Liur-
ttUri SniiMi L^E.ibhsLied I li r- flower industry
Genuiuiiiis Tower Higher Than l slanders
4HjiiL> lleii I ! rc-t' - grow here whu. h don't
grow outd* lor* any wluTr rl-r in Europe. Tlieyj
thrive in our mild md i-qmihlr dinudi /' -,o'J
I hr present npf^fihitivt1 ill the In mile. !,t.
I'onuk I M Dorrira retired frum the
Royal 7s \.ivy He leases 1 rescu and the umn-Jta b i La I i s! tint] - from t he I >U t; h y of l otnWb 1
1
V- we ^tfcil In I chi- UikilHl. it garden** I .saw
plants from ail over the wotSlI A hill just i>ver
I rsfj teet hcgti to the we»lwrartl gives .shelter,
as hir rt> any liill *:m in ikese Igw At lunik
iislaiids t|iEqit-s IMtS), whetr the wind is the-
eh^rtiy and trust.1- ;irr liurdk kraow o
Xtiir the ^3 id grnnilr house La Licit Anmis i ii« S mi I h ltow mi gan lie .does . e i j.c hh ptusesn aiaucana.^ bananas dracaeims, eury
bias, fEinini tints seven ft^t high, rfurie.se
ikipr r \
i L:ist1.^ , A3 Ufbn tn HI v -n r -th u -\‘u\ Lr^ 1 r ififc.
,
einniimon, mi rs k—ihe hsi seem^ r milevs
FLuwtrs ^pruui i’rum ibe rttekeries* like ^ctntlJ-
»iLnt waiter lumblinu down u brill iofit water
lail, iinrj the hues of mesernhrianlbemiiEn
shine iri wildest [irufusinn Si i li^t" : lui^e
botanical .Harden with neither roof nor Walk,
vt-i in a man made sul it ropitai fares!—mad nil
thi^ -it 311 degraes north latitude, about llae
^skitu’ latitude as frigid Newfoundland.
‘"The t«iili Stream n>ust do ic(nrsri thu soft..
mild air> it Huid- cti— wlivn r Isn't blow ing
a gidf 'did the tommandfMr, like the -emtutn
he is "But I dorTl know whatc die t^pbrtaiit
•INpSirtil b Ml L J Le Hii.il. Nuborly dtH‘ - ItVim
t.i1
?
Ht-EEct ol KdEii.bdi tin-iev; Silvered
bronxc safety ]*m ax^i) wficd-^o|^tj
lirtMh'k bright with enamel jiltd inlaid
l iiLurv-il stunts. Ciime to IJidiE whm'jnehiifiki^ siitL'l Llie debrfa tin
NWnriiiT bttrich (firppttdiel Hiftgef*
it 1 1
1
;avert * l ill nil i^it Ull J I inhw lit-. S i nit
hud Ifctn mode in oilier punt (U ch«r
K- iTTI-J-fl Svifipii’t h-ilifvirbt: lu Mir flirW
yf trade ihnt l«e rhed ilir Si il I Li:r^ dur-
ing Roman am i pal ion of Kn gland
‘The jewel it Trvjuiin tttECQVmd on r hi- ShwHsiifilPMt lhut Cdlit r4il]or§ used Nurrmtlr as a trading ^en
id in i Kc ili? i af ftcime Htoratnltivcn -ut \ ui 196 1 rmtilpird
tfiir SiiinJ hi teVpil iLbrieifl liturtli?, hub, • uin% .leu I
SiroiM hi firruiar nlc»ne -Aral im? behind ntuulnijr iirchc-
fdogisE Cyril Short ol Hugh Towiu ft ratiwt banker, wuabemh olil lhtL Rfimuni vuniL- wU-nUiU rdiiiiiltr ft
hniJt -fiapr in the Bn nit1 Are nul: e I li.m .l Ibidt: iiiii.3 year-
before I fin 1 Tlie tij-i(i*li Ministry of 'fluWb SuikEsn^ Ifni
\\ iirk- ftpuittfiFvd I ho tt^5V4thin
II flilTi ITIl J -4i 2,1 1 s .
i. ii
J
1 1 riling. We h&Vfe thousands of specific of
ps Lint.!- Thoy ait do well lifts thrive beep, too,
pi^dbclE^ u : n i|Uiu^i of honey."’
We passetj sun Arch nf the medieval alibej
a tnl i lio'-siv and suddenly there wis a
astonishing collection of old sailing ships*
flgUru 1 1ends . rui je1C 1 1 1 ian L-,.k n i.l ut her mar 1 1 imr
rfEn - t rom g low «>]«eir
i fronted build inn. mv,
upon mw of stately figureheads stored or Ihe
garden as i hf> omc had stared Hi the undies
m%:l IhHii rhe bow* erfTreat i ape Homers ami
little lm.i-lM. brijis tp.mt1 145 j.
Wlivl’s Fun Build* n Grfm MuHamnill be vlsl lnroiigbt them here," the com-
rnanrltr --aJti:They are all from li nen I w itib
— tVP 1 1-i v r rs'lpr- muv. 44 1 til thrui 1st tils
1 rLa v
-
T
uf <ail, tJu- nt- islands could be a death trap’
He pointed out a At itc-andiiui^ii liltd
toiistired munk from I he iea cHpjier fni*/
r<Mi kt driven nsbore In aj^le to the winter of
|H6|_ The mnnk lnoktd as fresh ht> on ihe d;r.
s h i 6*i a - inn clip f ir r wu - I un nvhd 3 . \ lal L <iin-
iiifieti lady i iLiU'lun^ a rose to her breast comefrom the tuf foar-m.isleil bark Ftiikhnd*
om^hed i\r\ Eii4nr|i l<iick in I'KIl \ Welsh
eirl tiimrchead is nil Thor remains oJ lh< fc
-i; Ei miner Jaw Osrro, met Cwmarvaiu1
1
-.i uii i;hi" d> L-p ladfii wilh a canto nf
W L1
1sb slate N'^it 1 1 ay,t wi i hr ns:, simtali a l ij can -
nojl recflJI the loss in (£75 of l
M
l1 lr;sn^;iikkntic
st earnshi \ * 5 « ^ a fUr an « I mrirc than AtX * i > r h-c-r
f
i
ks^engr rs. and < re v* V hundred r d them l] t in
.l ua-mmim.Ll p-nve in Mury^ churchyard
] siw no memieolck nf tile wurstitimgaliomil
disaster Eia ihe Royal Navy's history, which
occurred on the Millie-' Western Roykh lh
L 714 A ili-- J re! iimine from the .Mediterra-
nean 3 l. I ns; bcMjlnp^ in a Foiz Tbrtptf mtrwof-
wjtr 5ank and 2 T0U(i seewnen #oivmtd.
^AuEEUStOi Smith !i itm eft tlsiv plitu- WlIIi.iI-
Ui." I he lommamlcr fiaid ^Voy nan sec why"
There are legends that the L-Uinilrrs were
not above profi t Eng fmnt W mi .lt> perhap>
.dsn emtsinjj: thenv l was inld of Lit prayer
• iBered repularlj. Ehc >1 pa'i-t]
ili urc tk in I he late I Kits ci-ailury that went:
"We pray Thee n Lord:, hcje i.hm wm k."
should happen but that if any wTecLfi. should
l;;ip|ujts h Tlltm s', ill £uide thetn snt'i the illy
Liu- fur the benefit of the pour isdiHluUnlf^
-The mhnbltani^ benefited by saving things
front wrecks, >aid Commander Ihurien
Smith. "Ii was dimperous and ihr> Me -creed
what they ^?t. Hut nnhody had to pray mr
wreck- A round here 1hu> haf^cmtl Arid t^f
id.HNilr r- luivf HprFHnErcH'orriforfiiix-iriJiliAT-
Oft*! day m 1919* he Luld me. the men ni
t -10
ttryher Were astonish ed to see * srhomatrr i‘ymr
drilling in l-idcrr with a full caqja nf timber hut
will] nobody Ltlnvani Stir u.s- < "iwadJ&m her
nnmr Mimtnt G D&kitef. The Bryhcr men went
quickly aboard sejurrdy hdkving thill u ship
mid m uneuvi 1
r I-
1
r -elf through the complicated
tide rips and ni her dumpers, They anch^ned her
jtLfl in time lu *ayi\ lief front running unto -rime
rocks, and in due entity mailed her away mS^oUitrid fi.- salvagr.
They teurinsj Inter that *he hud sprung aleak
in ii gule off Ireland und been abandoned The
leak ttaok u (
>
Kand Abe wandered alongon her nw
n
The rocks Lin rl ren-fs ground the Still]t- -tail
l-lki iIhbj* t'dl ,U**l i&vL M^trch the \mattan -
owner! 6 HOCK) -tern liinker Terrify \ Canyon. iht-
bingetf ship ever to run agrauncL brake in three
on tie veu reef* tight mile? iKWlhcflat of
St Martin's Its spread] ng cargo of $5 .iKMJ.LJOO
gallon- -M v-rude nil brought afcagter to holiday
beaches uj southern England und even black-
ened the sunds of Brittanx and Normandy., 220
miles away, Koval Air Force and Hov.il Xavviels dropped espies ive> m bum away fuel stfh mMm- hulk, anil and riWihira used bulldor-
ers ? deterirenti, and ^jiwdast tn than beaches
Currrtil* .nnl hu'iir.ilik wrncL spared the
>* jlhes, m spite of the ncarttgSA inf I lie wreck,
lint even now. month 1 titer, the extent of
to EnglaiiflV ami Fianci- bird and marine life
; «iTi only be pieced aL
Ihvlim Kland « hi |i'iikm:rc*
Mo wrecks vvl’I’l- visible the da> I inn.tie nkiunrh trip toward Bbbop Rock with an old
ho-iliium named Hnracr Whidri* m-i ><-wral
Fellow pii-iveugurf.
M Funn% thing dimul name-* amund hens"I f unset said. "In the old days, Scilhinjans didn't,
travel vtwich bctWWt inlands, so you find only a
few family names on each one. Over At Bryfier
mmt everynnt is rail ad Jenkins. \ girl seldomhas in rJiangife lier mutte when she marries
V-rcrn, the Reunite bouses nf Hugh Town.shone in the sun. Atup the hi 11^ the Elijmlier Ji.in
Fon called Star Cattle brusquely fronted the sea,
: \x bad done fioce Sir hnuuis Oodolpbm built
it iL- .tn uut|iost against tjie Spacdsh .i few years
after ihc Artmdrt sailed by Star Cablet *™' it
^
uiifiSk'il moat jEJtl it' battlemen t;-. is now ii
ant hotel Musket slits the dininc
roitm. -uiri the dungeon* house h. t>mt
Vhearf. 'inf l«r> sea. Bishop Rock light rose like
.i ]w\u H thrust from the a jilt rjg.hu.
" N't] thine between it and die roast of \mej.mi. ' Htutttc 1 1 iid tiU pn^seageri.
<hThJtit% the
lir- t IbiJn \rm-rican j-ec in Europe Hut \vt\
don't see sfj many liners now. And iF k i sidling
U2
FIRST AND LAST OtTPObT
nf ninthu estem Hritii in;
Wnkop Rank LightlH/w*
rliu^i fu it nefr ii hilr it*
UghtiJhnhtHfi with thv
iniensilMj nf 720JMM) cUfUtltv,
u'ftnt* itictfiiipfx qf lht hjiitiiy
Sciliii’n. During, htirrivancH,
monstroui itemi have iturivtl
vjmttj „rrr thr ttrfi uf
the tower rmrf
jarred lubricating ntefcunj
from the tamp. Keeper
(rfiiitfini \1'. Friini ntriicaUif
weathers such storm*
in hi* lofty eyrie.
ikwihonU h i* |ifn krPfi£H*ui n;M -
ship passes by. id I Hugh I'pwn siop!y wort.11] r] i iT|T|Cr! tfi look
The weather ynnil ami t lie sea r ,il
m
when we lf.il, for Horace hi \w c+wld upI in i-ii h I li -ho| s
L! ul k 1
1 r 11 s in tile ii nc-
l
a-ember"It looks id! fight fouw," he susd. Mbul in n
wester i he whole \tlcmi ir nme* rubbing
at ii I've- -e^n (hr jjFeaT sea- breaking, aJimru
u\ it ii hirrLt>-Ein end I hr tigiitlunifle ktwjjer-
hiive been marooned. ihf rr Fur weeks"
BEutSOm.s Hide Amu*r\ \n -.ruiCL llnrh
(hi uaunhnhiiect Annul, a sairctuar) iof
lirnb, I look. -I for l iiL-f
i til has .ind.shearwater*
ibeit rne.-it iben? by thr ihousami-, but iht
eranite island was so L*arpeird wilh bftNiim
"l t hu pink thrift that I i osilil in ii ^r(hc ne^t-
i n n hi ret film k-an i Mv h 1 re ily * terr .ltrhers andringed
[1
1 pvers walked on the beuclie* limit
hliiirk-tiai'kefj gutb, a*- larjif us geese, wheeledoverhead in pair' JiHik'iJLi 'nr Limdnag edi-
ble- especially young l.irrd: SctLuninii Jimp•’loi'ii j silent an d still on the cxjiosed fucks-
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with their mup hi-M oddly and stiffly out"I >rviojj i heir winLi-r I asked Hum. i*, l*ui
he didn't know"It taki^ d hi tig lime, if I,licit - whai thcy
pmtlLsisitf," he «iid. “They jUM 5t;iur| like thill for
Ion ] think They're always dtntlg ft1*'
Later. 3 found dial they were indeed drying
ihemseLve? in the warm -un-hine—not un-
like the “Lin -worshipi hr visitors.
The sea hu^aiii to livr and break on ihu
mao \ ro- k&, tin- tauneh to piti h and mil Sonu-
I5e nper :- were -en> 1
- k. H 1 . nn.
1 1 1 1n 1 e .I bii c k
"St-i.' thosi. rock*/" he asked, (Hunting to u
nsimy patch where the tirk nr-hrd with surly
swell* tivejr rock-* I hat seemed la rtow ll> 1
wati IniJ them, hrr i :il- tide w is fallingHT had
two Lotisim droWiifrd lb ere, fisJtini: Thu If
bmX overt ii nil; i.l. and they were caught in
their own ftear. Prnplr ftahorv saw (hem, hue
they rouldn't gel lirere in tinw,'"
Many ishtndtTs .utild Ec-il of petr-»nnl t rasg-
edfefl -lji h m 1
3
1 :h l 1 Fnce nrasf nr the r^-nJi'i it -
of une island limw ncii r 1 uininR home by lio^>
i"
n
ill niifht fmm wadding oh St Mary-I tiu k ml 1 1 Lsu;l= 1'iuyii. tlit moior us-
scl wm coming An on he1!
< I ni |> Min from ItauAifre. < row dudwith piL^nEEV'c hy tht hundreds Mainwere diiy-tnp|M?rs hut rno?-r wotiJri MayInrmtr Over head lfc ludhnpier vc.Jis
descending noisily* currying .
l=- mu it
SbOn tlii^ viikbmi wen- walk inti along
lliu I it E It stpner E|u:ty low,ml the town,
smihrijE sn I her -oiu balmy tor, drink-
rrm lit the uronr. deHidllihU ill the ;ih>-
situ e if traffic jams —happy ru
owl of tin world for a while in thus*
Frmniiirte Ide_s
''flavine a nice Ljrcw' askort m>inti ni Captain Phillip- the harbrn
mailer
JnUtyil I wa-l- 1 teflifU'd I t lou,
walked dowly akimi lilt quin tubouk,
il' I coukk lLI l.ht same hotel, in thesamei
1
1
i i : i . u «r 1
1
. > -. lm f 1
1
me the tol lowi nur
year The -Anne bed, too. THE ENI>
Vm - liiri]HLB retl ill rit> 1 1jjiiait'il hh ks, rvrry-
wherc ,L|N!n!iii - hi fapi i e i^r m water- jmuniithi '•4- ill 1
1
1* -
"f\m nearby Seven Slone j rev I dld i nealc nl able il.im .use
1 1 r 11 !
r I 1 [I til- 1 1 T2 1
1
1 LJ
I I 1
1
1 e ?y |.sljiT s | itker T0 ri r y l ri yQft
kill Mati'h IS J 'Lcmjilrii' millifin - 1,^ iLJilhilLs nj Kuwail
lit tli r WFrtk i]rrQ04l a diefc ihal
trapped wildlife* fmcpjxrl rcNfirC bejirh-CS fit ^inthpro
Knitlatul ant I jrartkwrs&prn Fimhv, nitlI tluvatranl
fsfaettes Ntii IrtUh ddes of (hr Channel MiriirtiSomijy.
vird n lLh and carrettl* diverltd the oil f rum l he SdJIic^
tuvinir L-LiiiM [Lfiirliw iirirn iit*EP4er
I Imittuij; thrriugh liiir wav and tmiL iiLri:iTln , :ui-
gTitirwi ihvhoWM'il t^ili viiiiir^ ve—,vl%, ibrer nl i lium
ISmidi, w miked in i-ea.* around LIil* St 1
1
lie*: from ElTi.
i
I
n* rVcmmr Srrrni{ ilii Sjnmi^h nark i*nma iMtnnti a
whi>M j1
1
e injrvJiVdf i Funis u* th - IlgurelieKili ihr
lurk RJvti ! Lum; and the tea dipper friar Truk
take izhoj-L* fr^m 1 hr dnpth.-..ihev ndnrn a n rxi^la I'EitliTl
\ dJtKill,) il- 'l r
i
m .i ^bbe> 1^ i > 1 1 1
1
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liir
fearful IcpH iicuIjiBd bjj Use AitanEl^i huhSuu ihsl
In Quest of the
World's Largest Fr
Article and photograph* by PAU1. A. ZAHJ , Ph D.SenuiT Nntuml ScfautM NatHmkt Gcv^nHrWc Huff
H IDDEN OX nil-: WANK 1j> .i kirrlain uf IhiLi.i
C
tinned"hi- rifcih--iw
rrjllcn Alina River a-* n lumhlcd over a rocky
itairraje The IntaJ rfmp Witv no more than twenty fceL buithe ItKv and rtmibJe nf plunging water echoed along the andspray stacked fcVtrry overhanging braftdh -inrl vine
Hiroptly my eye.- tUippud On .1 rno>sy boulder haltu.u downt he " fiseJtde I saw a dark form "i siartlmj* pro|mrMOrtii h had a ILu-1,1
1
1 ,-
,l bead and crouched on massive tsEtuncbe?. Ui am herfby nu>i,
i.he 5 3 line wlis s-t? wei tks, it-= nn-ky perch, .imi just ii> mutinolcssi'ur minute t mmW m» nnyve Hien .r^inLden flicker from wh\i\ I
fimeted to be the *ream nr'* mouth provided u rhie This * pujjl only«" &li4£kt ihe ftfmsit l>«« ni the gettfjs Vonmitu, -uaLehim; winpr«i
inesecL- from the mist-Jndey lui above the waterfall.
Cnrefut to snake no burned m 1 ) veitu- hi, I >et my Camera on 0 in-pod Jinri i i'eflii with n Lwt^ io^ tiketeie-c ipir tens lltai n? I for used
,
wmunhins;. pyrhupv u jiijil 11I iru lal, hr craved rti \ pne^enre In hti n 1-
i^iline k\i|j, lIur^Tfiil itilulhctnirrvnl a/nj WBjtgrmt
Bupir lor .1 ('upturn Resta With Ondu
Severn I week- earlier, In November., [ had am vi:d in Bala. st:j
Side capital of Rici Muni, n dtiy Spanish jiravine* 01: \frkn - eipja
h trial we fit cua*( i miip ( eull' 149) fJtily here, mid In nekdi hnrimrt dCncronti 10 the northern jianl frngy more than a myth Rr|iuri>
of individuals nearly .t yard king from nose to tui\ and wdidunKmore Mian seven pounds, had imri&Liori me for year* Xmv I hadcome ld r%ce l hern with my own ey^Si hoping to brute back rvictemathat the specks 1 luiuuli LaiiaininttTn* is nnl threatened byeimnnion
ihjt jilv initial feeling fhcra I w the river wo- 1 1 1 if; nf fmMmiidp
VflfltfliijihcEl kimK nf frisiE
dnm Ian stE’ nearly Jmlf ihs-
Ernirtli of Jb cpfilnt. Mo-mem fitrtkrr this ( Vur-iio^
1 1 rmirhcd in the
jrttrHin^ i j^-tude i.xf 11 rj vtr
drAininc liir QipimeruiTrain hinwl tiE Ki.^ Mumil«fiL -.s SjiafifeJi priKint'r
in western .-Unrik Tlsr
itnifii fmy fell pr^y in On-I i. urLf of Riu Mi sin Filju:
|i8Mi[jir, who ma^pciS 1
1
wills 4 r»hln'irk itan^tid
horn .1 [jolc.
l^r^t of ihe worldbnum 1 J 1 mi-. J5(l imv Iriis;
spice its. ^y] i :j l 1 1 ii wr I L ijn
m Rm Mm&i and ir • north-
WH ni'i^hliFir l AniifriNin
The Fh^. euJI tEie
1 H' i1m
1‘fa i
11in 1 l N Earn 1! 1 nh
—
"nioltirr'- Mirf1—litN nu.vf
n *bc uvul linihv remtniE
thpjn of a small dhfld
Sh\. sfiii.T p eyed. and
quick to dive out nf sip.til.
I he froict rsenped ir-ifSitihL
eD$cuvlh3 trntil 6CI '.Tjr=:
Attti 'liie iiiithffl- raptured
frye i_oliJJii^ ro m ikf rhetie
Jl^yi tmhlii^hcd rohif jfEmir,-
h r.<|
'Ii < rhia niinL^ 111
1
1n pr
tern cite hnbitui V[? wa-s jrl-
vLeiJ jjk3 pislded byH|iiiii-
i-ik rwnirutisi Jritur
Ivy 1jL CtiMiof n|
Bun ciluua 2ao\ \nJ n|nl
Ai l UamlJriition Center lu
BatiL wlin has inve+tijptfpii
r 11 rroL’- lor Eto jrar-
and piilihMif i] ne\ rrnl pcH
prr . 1 in I he- ioh}pi t
MO
i I * . j 1
1
j r n - -il dir l .1M .ilU- ^ilialhft ..n iI
-I I: ,i l
! -- pm li in thi Ml-: - \l \ i-r VVrun ,111
irt'iei. t inm™uw\ n frug&vmreB Lhe pray whli .1 iln k uf it* itlcJ# tfjnnur The nullmrhrthvr* thflt 'I tisnu Ihf iLinpfaihillip&
IKin ilk'- n^ysjrn tJml Iln % absorb ih couch
ihr ^pijlcrti^ntini? shi- supply Inun Iht Itwtpt?
In the- midst nr n ragim* lorrtni, how couid 1
1 nibfi n rrjtnjn: wary nt the move-ttien t even at thirl > yards ? Frt>^ frtf; ye n I
J y«fr tMuybt riL flight in the -
1
m ^ 1 nf a lilinding
fl.i.dilitzhL But ivfoiu ruth I 1 hi! Iiis way thruu^hthis jtlhglcTti the dark and uut irilo l\w middleof a waterfall?
A better hope was ( inch-, one of the km^people who tvnfk Rio Muni'^ uliiuc ami cocoapkintfliiciifc, and our -d ihf feu men h RfoMuni with the pffrwfe&tti lake a. goliath alive.
He hnd guided me to iht- riverbank and hadwatched as I hr fro]i disappeared
"lifijFFijjifj,
' hi- said, rhppins ha hand tu myear* '“that ^jutu: fellow will be barL"
U#
I returned dir niext day, driving Nil- J's
mile# i>l winding dingle truck frnttt Hata tu
wiihh Hiking da -5 a ru e r*f the Mina ui^-ndes.
With nu-wrhl Sr/ririr Ji.irge Sn] ki
I
er Pi r ;t gjdfled
naittralidl with years. 1 j l eacperirmie in westernAfries, who U currently- in u NtUiomU( ieogniphic Sooet>i'spoit^;irci;l sttidy uf low-
land gorillas* Along tinr way ivt? pickl'd tip
O mlu in ih«; vUIngt of s -in Joaquin
T he I Ftw Innm 1 n g f 1 \ t hv wat l1 r cjew !mdr r
a- we iwMfd <mr an foot ikjwn 1 twirirlv™ >
defim-d trail Si iniI thief than urt uur previous
visit and careful to stay in Ihu MmiImu-s w
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it tnb-Lt far Senor Subtler; then n mighty leii ^ -llh fi.es
tlip n rr:i[ frojs Jeftfcfcl i nS-Hi-v* ! Aw a> frnm ibrir invijt-
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i.T-ltfi j. tbt'marlw-- -m -g itli> -dri-in hcd rOtk± U\
d-iy. itdiiatta jrirnwJ *u™n hunk? rilpht, rtuippiop
mtIsui&c^iCittp^ (np Cttpfcfv^ hnvr
Ihcen ItnoW ts lu rtrjt-iX all tiiTc ciLC|.j| with c mil C The
fiog-r hear lurutrh but lurk .t v n J.L =_k f ir i
! Ml
I'FGpL USt I. LfltJtlgh U lumRIiLSllI A Vil?W
bnmcrirEiti/ly < hi tin nudgeid hie. fur then- on
thr Kune rock. I ll> feg dim n-i-rum in^t a? he-
forcp sal a hugr frog* \\V wailed a* Qnda >ct
hi work i mn:i . m l'.1 puk fmm a riflii frond
H. •- 1 a^tirii l1
1 i .1 coral u« tin pole- ti|i unrl j
ru^ty fishhook to the cord'.v free end Tlim hr
sijsytaJed & m remain where we worn—out of
,'ip;ht anddiiappearL-dup^ire^Ja-
I '-iiit-Mii c >4 rati Tinting Bag a CriunE
Fifteen, thirty minute 1 locked to
nt v
t
for rea&u nt iiu- So nedi r'u r cobee r in
.
he tolil me, OmJu wgs cotking- upnver shah
lows that would permit .1 wnttine .ippnwh to
the ^‘airi L;i il -1 r-L -i (ftalimtl marmtii'ET wntiUI
di [jetnJ on the fact flJmi indiath!, whfli- possesirig Lirute forwjrd ;ijli! peripheral vi«ion i-
n • r equipped with reameii nun nr-
\n\Y Wi MW * hldu, IE ft TO 1\16 S h LilllS ITl the
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1 1 i c 1 u Wiiu-r, soaked With spnty He was-
t liit 5 fijt-t from hi> gpaJ nod sUmping1 jn h*-
nut of viriv should! Thif frag turn
1 craved ran finger* 0% inch by ineb, the
liunHnuui ittuvnE dawn 1 lit- racing Jurrtnt
Umilh lie himself upon a m-u^sy rock
pJl,'. L ti I- Ikhiml . Lt 1 1
1
1 e 1 111 IrnL VVjlh
swely patience he raised the pole, then slowly
lowered the line so thru the hookciifne jointly
III t L'St, hell* eel) the* ftnjt'-i liirbi 1 ilirt nric ill it -
haunnhei \ ! tin point did She iftag fggiMei
the -liftijEe.-i nlarki
Then Ondi} gave a ti uhtning jerk on tbe
1'Hik lr , i x 1; li l* i I a* 1 hi; 1roctT now a fury at sin
leached rtllexe.^ Boiled in pud^ur Holding-
1 ear I- n n eId n s . 1 rn1 u vere 1 1 1 he J
h ra- h i rui c reu -
tun- inward him .imi i-jird \\a him! Ictr*
Fifteen minute? later a punning Omlojoined u>, Qniekly W& removed the huok from
iMl: fray's scai re U injured -kin Then, -melt
ISO
i-l> tiny .l*- fry, _ iIllII: dn ryn-
seutipcd 1 1 u -h from the Mbi > tupped -isurt
Hie nn!> ji link than flirts* nt the
i nnutiuik lnjlH'ruu; Shown L1
-1
- limes life-
.mac ciu:h fmb on u lugging 70Itaw , but
will '-lhhi w i liikilu fmm iJ^ai'liirini'H-cnvr-
Ilijh Ci- l'nrk4=r tin - m:i 1
1
rl.thi If If.
bower iprocqcisN, mlltxkd ,mii j.ifr
^rve*l by ^ ffM>r T’ ^h,is or. show tiT
mi’Si:LiTiiirj>hMAh [ham Icgl-era iMiHlwpg l<J
(wn INch frus^l whi.^tiul l = hortly i i-
Hirlwii Into its hody W hits’ bullirncn stop
grow inis ill E3 in Lj ittHirv, Krari to tixr .
* t rp.nufc'l> double I hat length
Ilotp- hiriffltMiC. -Iiou , ilEuii] ?i^E wcisi^
wi 0 1 1 1 1 11 £ 1 h 1
1
1 -.pr I rJh iml lull i uji i it r w .1 Lce
ami help? k-t-trl* the IrajE nn - mir^‘ whenI i'.l] m ii;c FjuIi un the sole ^ive irsul k»n on
'ftpperv rurkv
hud ‘’I'-uil fur -j'.-dh triumphant photu^rniph*- fpiuje -i'.'i,
i’XEUnined this extmordllifm prize
The bead Wileft I < 11 a? a saucer* and each eye. with 3 E- black almond
shaped pupil set in :
\
speckled yellnw iri^ uaJ tiJ t Lif m/v r>f o |ive-
epnl piece The forelegs. Were almost as thick a^ my wrist, and the
powerfully muscled rear tap* were hu^rr than turkey dm iti.se ick.v
Except for sizer, tin i reinsure wii_- similar tu utir comnum \mcririiii
fronts, all m^ml^rs of the same fun-HI v, Rani due.
Hack efi we weighed ourcai' h Six years earlier, arid
Omln had i’LiijpJn ;l frpg weighing 7 - pounds; now r; yarded us the
largest cvei iitkc-ii in Rip Mum Afl old rJaim of a M-putind specimen*
nllpfriil> taken in lAtmeruom hu-. never been verified We placed uur
omender un list m ale*. pultintS iittJ pithing ii Slit" mnitsisnl in tran-
quillity flnuTly Ihv dial hand Readied aL u.S pounds— rw> diampinn,
blit cerriUidy in the mmicr-iiji category. 1 was tirtatfid
1 »i.e i:S u, Mum Nil 311ml at trimmlmn
Our cjict; |unvrd-i frmnlr, but j( nni alA i.m- l- , s^nliftth
sexes are similar. As En niLin> a^tightlj hwoLIcu first digit uii-rach
fordimb iU*t > lu^piltt. dutttig (lie tnalfng inientifu^ the male
Rtprpdufdnn occurs mainly during Jtil\ anil Auguai Hfo MunTsdryseason. ftllhoLi^h we ton m I wi fresh epgi and many newly hatched
tadpoles in Decon tier and janiihini—du* “Htlifc il“. -i-.i-hi. " fcggs d( ppflh
tied in the |m?uU by tin b-rtialr arc irrUlued by mi h simuit^neoully
rdtiasLcJ b^-
[lie malu^ Each pea size eg#* slate gray un utie face, yel
)awi>b un the ullier. is protectively suspend L'd in a globe of -dear jelly.
{ I 'll ill', huyo -mnl f^mlluL-- 4 S 1 Ct][bryu. in ahn-ui i wo \U'rk- it Take
thf shape i«! a ti! dju ile liunn^ tlif-e stape- a yolk m u n the Underside
[irovtde-. tuvuriyhniiiMl Ftmtlly 4 ffi^urinimmg wriggler emeriL^ from
i-^ch griatinaLi^ case. A msmlh drvtili : ixuh several raws of tiny sharp
Uii-ih for I'ceditiie oh Podostctfinccat1
, Wild plants characlifrisllc of the
cascade punkWithin Swo to ihree nmnlh?. ttn body htts sprouted lees nm l the tail
h|» been .lI 1 -nrtel Nnw ihr 1 n-aiurc uihtindcins its herbivorous habit
us well ll-- its naLal [R’h^I. ir tnH’omcs a earn |v me. Aanly'.k of - tornach t:cm-
1 1 1 51 - rrwah 1 lie food staples *4 3 he ndillt lo be, insects, fish fry , crusty
cean.-. alh.1 iibou' guy nther j-itiall rciy^ty iMny iliat comey wii bin rial I-
Htin^rv pjrrrt; .1 gohutli ! own IV vinr rviiut?. r in Hn Mum Rr dt ryicmii'!!
EnciHmtrFi'rlu' 1 lu-> hunUti juiudr afild rijh- with quar muI gknt net, Ihc oomadlr (amtdwellers jublljiith N.ulinl ibc nn\il Jh^; j- aCinc-bill l sfcfy .
c.if the frog'* long* sticky, fast-tlLckjiia tonkin-
(jsitiatlii cfiJd> growth stage* rive no hint
naf impending ^tgi+niirssms Kpg*, tadpoles, imd
young ire iu>t much lamer than thi i-e ut anyiitiiti i-l tbc wurtd'i J 5 i rjjri rjf in 1 1 frng•
I'.LiT-L 151) £Jnt> ;*fter miz[;unr>r]ihi^k ;ife the
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It is uiitortucLLitL- for .1 when iruin
finds ) gtlorf l> h I'Ll I, but (UL'ktJ 1, . fl-ML1 oj Rju
Mans1
* Fang wen know of iJw big iru.u
existence. let jloiit u> Lb,U\
Nut Wilt* (lie fktyelc, a Liihe of I'senne-
who Jive a withdrawn, TioTnudrc hit in the
dark fore^ of northern Rin Muniundf Jimcr-
iktn 1 hi hh -.nuiJP fit1
* ijiIil- -- ls tj .-•I im Lu>h ele-
|jlmtnT i4Jiir]o[Jv, ljtn.b r fbh. iifiti buffalo. Wgencountered ;l party 1 1 K 1
3
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s ij 1 1; In 1 liters dur-
um ii trip deep into rhr jnufi.tr and r|i-« idrd t.u
u k:-i thoJr Rmi Iulhi y wst h the frnirs hy giving
tiie eh oiie of on r *pctiriien&,
VcLS* and M;reuiii^ of delicti L rm w him wtr
ope turd. our basket anil presented ihe Fieri 11
man with a five gumt imp. Ont manto turn ears wheels: another climbed a tree
miiJ umly iHimcrsHulted down hi frmil of luc
*‘Do we t-.ii I'rnsEyV’ roared the headmuji r a-
oiir translator did hk Twfll. Words flawed,
fiures beamed, arms gestured ]i molded op ru
the glories of Frog urt-ai. |o galiatb’-s wariness,
in tin? lia/anl,^ up striking in the
Our jungle friend.* invited us to their en-
campnienL Two uf the ci.i-te busied tiivm 5 e I ves
wish tender und el whs rime sticks and before
long f he frog was m a pen over a blazing ike.
o| EaUing d^kiic&s. wc canid not
5- 144 y sVir 1 h e,1 Still In high -piriiv 1 hr I kite
a lHU Jci l uh back E(j mljt 1 nil I w,u convincedihiu lie never QpiJtirtuniiv pi h.<A\\
i outovu fwluHh k a- suui h a jyiirt of ihen <iu-i
ll> ah', nther junsfle ijuirr.
J rould unr|LLr>lliniil the 11v g3tl if - cntllU-
Nn t hi prt-ste-nt we 1 1mu phi ihtmi. fur
fra^i meiii Ls unckfunbh* r and the genvr-
mih !'fo| 1'irlimi? uf a goliath drumstick pui it
in acIelhs In n >el1 gm |i apj-L-nl rimli.l quirkFy
doom these rAre animals, were \i net for twocirfiimslaJices? their prefeoenEt tut dlUkulL
terrain, nnd tlir sjperftenesi uf human poimlit-
lion Lu prey u.\*oi\ tbfm llfllfel* they: fiiclnrii
i-Jmoac, llidr -umviil seem* jssum!
15 -
Jliis new Mimic otimoru is |Kilin~si/,e.
liunls insiitn; k. ;m<J is less tk:m $.10.
Movif uhuuI t.u be rather bignnd bulky*
W 1
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ble expositpefi ii_nd foggy edjueB- N-;« id ore.
just drup in the film.
Now ynii J i ! .7 ? Prop x i^pef :S film ran ridge
into a battery-driven Kmink InAtaftmth:*
movie camera and nhmrt a full SO fwt of cal nrdm vies. Mi -vies thut will mirprise you tiocuiee
IheyVc- Mt imifh dhitrprr nn| brishtfir thjm any-thing yw'vti l uftU 1
I'.' expt'L f~
SupLT S pictures arc50% hifficr*
Even :M y 1 !.i I'sui’t really appreciate wfuit n -r f
Ferencc Hi makes nnlrl fm prnjwtywir K^laknn per S nrriv?+'$ on ynu r ecreetu Then-wow 1
X nti a rn 11 y r new guper S tth ?vi£sra II for & #upiJr B
projector Kodak ofTersacfifnpWe 3? ne, from lo-un
limn SC3. all ivl kb fully nutu matte threading.
I n adiflllcm t n theKodak 1nata -
mn t m- M 12 mcrviecfljnerft forleas
It ij i ii $- ! 0 \ . 1 1 !ii i v i1
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three ot hrr palm -jfifta cam i hisa
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Alter you've seen
Lake Powell, we still have
17 olher spectaculars
left lo show you:
Grand Canyon National Park
Petrified Forest National Park
Natianni Mnnwirtfttl
rinyon-tfs C-Kdlh-
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New Residence ElevatorHfw mtokl Dmf H&im=Lirr ati?n
C*4LiTy ;ind ufaty l&i effortless trans-
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aipc-tmg, tmndraik £^s> ly n.r.i^E if-
in re* or Crating hofircs or Eflifli-
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Every linw one a? them vlsiis a
station, n gig Eg lacked al In 49 dJhnr-
ont places. Roa^ rooms sales racks
pumps, Dquipmoel. The wor*s.
The result is naaE. clean staSi-ons
Shat make your vacation drive Jusl
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Don’t fiddle whileyou roam.The Kodak Instamath HO I Camera
Jets you pay attention to the sights you're
seeing instead of the earners. you’re shoot*
in st. All you do is drop In the film cartridge.
Then wind the spring molar—and the film
will advance automatically aftereach shot.
Your 804 adjusts itself for the speed of
the film; make;- the correct outdoor expo-
sure setting tor each picture; warns you
when to use flash; switches us flash speed
a.- you pop on a flashcttbe; felts you when
flash is ready; adjusts for flash exposure
as you focus; and turns the cube for the
next flash, All automatically. The lens is a
sharp, fast //2.8, the viewing bright, the
range-finding accurate,
See how good the w- .rid looks when youI i.ive total automation and Kodak de-
pendability going for you. The KodakInstaaiatio SU4 < lamera Is leas than Slop
at your Kodak dealer's,
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Kodak Instamatic 804 Camera
General Motors is peoplemaking better products for people.
Phyllis Roe helps shorten long trips. With needle and thread.Auti-mailtin r.r np sutom n^on. we
could n&v-m ceE ale rip without ew™ng mflcti Inas-—anil girSft kfce Phyllta
Therfc arc- loo many Lhmqa at EdgkR
Importanl lumps Like your rid in(j
comfort
That '
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pliGS heudffe and Ihr-aad 1c cat ierut
uphold(nry to mah* cattflin you'll
Flavor Have to laku y-oup lumps rad In ^n .g C'iiij yrtilr^r Puniiac, Gulch Olrffi-
motnle 01 Ciiddlm: car.
PfoylMs rloe'i skilled tmadK Eire
tyfUcaJ cT the persona I touches Ifiul
go mtn I ha making nf nvery b Gnu-mi
MolorSi tHr. Another reason whyU'my'rr: a bailor buy. EFi-p-nqinHy hamwhefu you *it.
Now you can call moS5 of }: urope for S'
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Lbe British Isle- fot S ?. 5 <V. The cost of
telephoning I-uropc is ntm lower than
ever. For The first lime, low station to-
st it E in n ra [ev .1 1 c j 11 effee 1 . AtnJ eve i Iower
nil'll! .Etid Sund.;\ rale-. are In effect to-T8 i
rnnnv count 1 io. These new |nw rules areur
another example of how the Hell System,
in cooperation with foreign telephone
agencies. continues to improve and ex-
pand the worldwide telephone network.
Today, hsgln!upndty underseas eahicx.
communication satellites. anti radio can
carry your culls 10 Oft.S •. of the world's
telephones. Whenever you wan: to reach
anyone fot business or pleasure— call
Long Distance* Ifs she next hesi tiling
to bdng there.
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Get the little goto boxof Concentratem your grocer's cereal section
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