![]() | Slavery, bloodshed and vice reigned supreme on the rivers, and there was no halt to it until the bottom fell out of the rubber market. The workers on the Madeira River had a n average working life of five years. (13) |
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| "We live no longer in the age of cruelty or the age of terror but in the age of cynicism, accompanied by a strange piety." (14) | |
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