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Describes their life and occupation in the litterally uninhabited center of of unknown and uninhabited wild country. He says that travelling by air is the only method to finds one's way "If we have any forced landing here, the pilot said nobody could ever find the plane. It would disappear among tree tops in a trackless wilderness.. He writes: "Columbia has 280 species of these wonders in this plant world and if I can add new and beautiful forms to the landscapes of South Florida, I believe I am not wasting my life."
His faithful and courageous wife Marian, the daughter of the inventor of the telephone, Alexander Graham Bell always travels with her husband in his travels in foreign countries and enjoys
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it immensely and helps her husband.
Her son is an explorer, so is her charming daughter who married one of the men of the Rockefeller Institute. - What a difference between these courageous and intellectual women, as compared to the average . woman, whose pride is in expensive clothes and jewelry. - 
[[underlined]] Aug. 13. Marechal Petain who was at the head of the French Army, has now pledged to work with Hitler. He announces that he now "Rules" as well as dictates laws Directs all defense services, including Forces in Colonies. - France has certainly lost her importance and arrogance.
The Nazis report that they are at the Black Sea and that Odessa is now cut off. - 
This is a cold morning in Yonkers but very bright. - Temp. at 8 is 52. at Snug Rock but