Vern Scott
Mar 18, 2023

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A "concentration of both venomous and non-venomous snakes"? At first I thought that was a description of our current US Congress!

What about the North Sentinel Island people, who to this day treat would-be visitors with a hail of arrows (are they actually quite smart given the track record of missionaries, geologists, and colonials?)

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kionasmith/2018/11/30/everything-we-know-about-the-isolated-sentinelese-people-of-north-sentinel-island/?sh=4ee2475435a0

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Vern Scott
Vern Scott

Written by Vern Scott

Scott lives in the SF Bay Area and writes confidently about Engineering, History, Politics, and Health

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