Rather a jolly story here which proves that the old-fashioned spirit of exploration lives on:
Colonel Fawcett was a legendary explorer of the early 20th century who went missing in South America, inspiring many ill-fated expeditions to go up the Orinoco in search of him. Colonel Blashford-Snell (a real person, apparently) has vindicated Fawcett's claims about the Double-Nosed Andean Tiger Hound: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6940289.stm The best bit of the story is at the end: "The explorers also carried with them a church organ from Dorset as a gift to local Bolivians ". http://www.dailyllama.com/news/2004/images/terry_jones_portrait.jpg Even Michael ("Across the Andes by Frog") Palin couldn't make this sort of thing up. A related excerpt from the Python Book of Life Imitating Art: Hitler: My dog has no nose. Crowd: How does it smell? Hitler: Awful! Bob -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
