Trip Up the Paraguay River Adventure on a Gunboat Yacht
The narrator recounts a voyage from Asuncion aboard the president’s gunboat yacht up the Paraguay River. Pleasant travel with good meals and sleeping on deck, amid hot days and moonlit nights. They observe wildlife, discuss the Chaco frontier, and note insect pest challenges for Te x Rickard and fellow naturalists Chercie and Miller as they study birds and mammals.
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Asun~clon
Paraguay
Nimself
Africa
Chaco
Chercie
Miller
Asuncion
Tropics
Guiana
Orlocs
Tex Rickard
Panhandle
Alaska
Tle
Concepcion
Great River
Asunsion
Chesterton on Terror as a Moral Force and Cricket Faith
The piece debates Chesterton and Shaw about religion's role against secularism, critiquing Mr. Blatchford's hell fear and examining cricket as moral theater. It argues the creed of virtue through sport reveals class and political power, warning that turning pleasures into virtue weakens democracy and fuels elitism.
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G. K. Chesterton
Berard Shaw
Blatch
Mr. Shaw
Shaw
Ian
Thia
Blatchford
Jonah
Blatchiford
Cate
Alea
T. Fancy
Jonahs
Cama
Ahama
Sologys
Atlantic
Ooth
Dyer
Mr. Blatcaford
Mr. Bisterford
England
Waterloo
Eton
Feterloo
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Paraguay River
Sir Henry Johnston
United States
France
Germany
Italy
Cruz
Rio de Janeiro
Vital Brazil
Sao Paulo
Caymans
Old City
Old Town
Uruguay
Brasil
Wmng
Oklahoma
Sequoia
Europe
Richard
Cal Roosevelt
Col. Hendon
Ena
Bra|e
Kermit Hoosevelt
Hifan
Charlee
Brazil
Pars
India
Eee
Vele Avvo
EFC Odla
Ogigaele FE Eragz
Harper