the Banana Company uses the State when the labor market dries up

, and obviously the State-
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ip to blackness than it do

• es to Indianness. Yet because of their an
• archic temperament and criminal ways, this very degeneracy of the tropical lumpen can prove indispensable-as in the search for white Indians. Caught in the undertow of history ha
• s made the lumpen wise to the ways of the savage man and the savage land. Despi
• te the negro fugitive's record and at
  • tempted mutiny early on in the exp
  • edition, Marsh begins to respect hi
  • m. "He was the best bad-water canoemen I have ever known," he predictably
• writes, "and in emergencies his brain worked like lightning. He later developed into my most loy

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• al follower and was one of the four negroes to get back to the Canal Zone with me." (145) The Epiphany The first settlement at which Marsh stopped on his way upriver i
• nto the Darien on his first expedition was Yavisa, where history had crumbled into an anarchic scrap-heap, a putrefying threshold. First he espied- and smelled-the negro settlement of "some fif
• ty ramshackle bamboo huts beside the stream-black babies everywhere, flies, mangy dogs, garbage, rubbish, and mud." (25) The v
• Recognition of Energetic Materials, Devices and Device Componentsillagers struck him as superstitiously afraid of the Indians of the interior
• whom, they said would kill any negro who ventured above the Membrillo tributary, proof enough to Marsh that they were all too typically strange throwbac
• ks, "degenerate blacks, less civilized than when they came from Africa." (25) Then came the epiphanic moment. Standing in the midst of this degeneracy, loo
• king into a clearing in the forest. Marsh blinked and rubbed his eyes: Across the narrow clearing were walking three young girls, perhaps fourteen to sixteen years old. They wore noth
• ing but small loin-cloths. And their almost bare bodies were as white as any Scandanavian's. Their long hair, falling
• loosely over their shoulders, was bright gold! Quickly and gracefully they crossed the open space and disappeared into .
• the jungle. I turned to the negro headman in amazement. White Indians'. (26) We note the swoon. It is Wa

lter Benjam

in's observation o

f the mimetic faculty, where he says that the perception of similarity-as for Marsh's, in the Darien-is bound to an instantaneous flash. "It off

• ers itself to the eye
• Improvised devices lab
• as fleetingly and transit
• orily as a constellation of stars.
• Full-scale vehicle bombs

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of the mimetic

faculty. The golden hair. Spe

ed and grace. White-fleshed nakedness and pubescent women making a mockery of, yet heightening, all that seems emotionally at stake where racism, labor discipline, and sexua

• l desire come together for a flash
• ing moment in a clear, elusive imag
• e. THE SEARC
• H FOR THE WHITE INDIAN Marsh's search for the white Indians of Darien blends

sublimely with his account of the spectacularly successful rebellion of