In the Amazon Jungle

It was half past five in the morning when we arrived at the landing of the Floresta estate. Since it was too early to go up to the house I placed my trunk on the bank and sat ad...

I have a vague recollection of hearing the barking of dogs, of changing my crawling direction to head for the sound, and then, suddenly, seeing in front of me a sight which had...

With the subsiding of the waters came my long-desired opportunity to travel the course of the unmapped Itecoahy. In the month of June a local trader issued a notice that he was...

My eyes rested long upon the graceful white-painted hull of the R.M.S. _Manco_ as she disappeared behind a bend of the Amazon River, more than 2200 miles from the Atlantic Ocean...

I was sitting outside the _maloca_ writing my observations in the note-book which I always carried in my hunting-coat, when two young hunters hurried toward the Chief, who was r...

On the second day of the return trip, we had a remarkable experience. Probably not more than two hundred yards from the _tambo_ where we had spent the night, we heard the noise,...

The social life of the town is in about the same stage of development as it must have been during the Stone Age. When darkness falls over the village, as it does at six o'clock...

Thus I lived among these kind and hospitable people for five months until one day my lust for further excitement broke out again, induced by a seemingly commonplace notice poste...

We were three weeks at _tambo_ No. 9 before the sharp tooth of necessity began to rouse us to the precarious situation. Occasionally a lucky shot would bring down a _mutum_ or a...

Remate De Males, with Nazareth and São Francisco, is set down in the midst of absolute wilderness. Directly behind the village is the almost impenetrable maze of tropical jungle...