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By ROBERT C. R ADCLIFFE
National Geographic Newt
Washington — In the history of get-up-and-go achievers, Europe may have invented the wheel, but the New World invented the hammock.
Wheels have long since rolled the world around, but now rope hammocks are also stretching toward new horizons. According to a survey by the National Geographic Society, about 100,000 are expected to be sold through 1977 in the biggest year yet of the $5million American business.
Christopher Columbus and his men were the first Europeans to see a hammock when they landed in the Caribbean islands and walked in on a camp of Arawak Indians taking their ease in “hamacas,” as the local word hit the sailors’ ears.
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