Travels on the Amazon

Rapid Current--An Indian Malocca--The Inmates--A Festival--Paint and Ornaments--Illness--São Jeronymo--Passing the Cataracts--Jauarité--The Tushaúa Calistro--Singular Palm--Bird...

COMPARING the accounts given by other travellers with my own observations, the Indians of the Amazon valley appear to be much superior, both physically and intellectually, to th...

Leave Guía--Marabitánas--Serra de Cocof--Enter Venezuela--Sáo Carlos--Pass the Cassiquiare--Antonio Dias--Indian Shipbuilders--Feather-work--Maróa and Pimichín--A Black Jaguar--...

Quit Barra for the Upper Rio Negro--Canoe and Cargo--Great Width of the River--Carvoeiro and Barcellos--Granite Rocks--Castanheiro--A Polite Old Gentleman--S. Jozé--A New Langua...

Voyage down the Rio Negro--Arrive at Barra--Obtaining a Passport--State of the City--Portuguese and Brazilian Enterprise--System of Credit--Trade--Immorality, and its Causes--Le...

Festas--Portuguese and Brazilian Currency--M. Borlaz' Estate--Walk to the Rice-mills--The Virgin Forest, its Plants and Insects--Milk-tree--Saw and Rice Mills--Caripé or Pottery...

Canoe, Stores, and Crew--River Mojú--Igaripé Miri--Cametá--Senhor Gomez and his Establishment--Search for a Dinner--Jambouassú--Polite Letter--Baião and its Inhabitants--A Swarm...

Appearance of the Rio Negro--The City of Barra, its Trade and its Inhabitants--Journey up the Rio Negro--The Lingoa Geral--The Umbrella Bird--Mode of Life of the Indians--Return...

Visit to Olería--Habits of Birds--Voyage to Mexiana--Arrival--Birds--Description of the Island--Population--Slaves, their Treatment and Habits--Journey to the Lake--Beautiful St...

Leave Pará--Enter the Amazon--Its Peculiar Features--Arrive at Santarem--The Town and its Inhabitants--Voyage to Montealegre--Mosquito Plague and its Remedy--Journey to the Serr...

Start for the Uaupés--São Jeronymo and Jauarité--Indians run Away--Numerous Cataracts--Reach Carurú--Difficult Passage--Painted Malocca--Devil Music--More Falls--Ocokí--Curious...

NOTWITHSTANDING the luxuriance of the vegetation, which might be supposed to afford sustenance, directly or indirectly, to every kind of animal life, the Amazon valley is remark...

AT length, on the 1st of September, after another week's delay, having succeeded in procuring two more Indians and a pilot, I left on my long-desired voyage. One Indian I could...

THE basin of the Amazon surpasses in dimensions that of any other river in the world. It is entirely situated in the Tropics, on both sides of the Equator, and receives over its...

I HAD written to Mr. Miller to get me a small house at Nazaré, and I now at once moved into it, and set regularly to work in the forest, as much as the showery and changeable we...

IT was on the morning of the 26th of May, 1848, that after a short passage of twenty-nine days from Liverpool, we came to anchor opposite the southern entrance to the River Amaz...

PERHAPS no country in the world contains such an amount of vegetable matter on its surface as the valley of the Amazon. Its entire extent, with the exception of some very small...

The wet season has not so many stormy and cloudy days as in other parts. Sunshine and rain alternate, and the days are comparatively bright and cheerful, even when rainy. Genera...

Appearance of the Rio Negro--The city of Barra, its trade and its inhabitants--Journey up the Rio Negro--The Lingoa Geral--The umbrella bird--Mode of life of the Indians--Return...

Voyage down the Rio Negro--Arrive at Barra--Obtaining a passport--State of the city--Portuguese and Brazilian enterprise--System of credit--Trade--Immorality, and its causes--Le...

Quit Barra for the Upper Rio Negro--Canoe and cargo--Great width of the river--Carvoeiro and Barcellos--Granite rocks--Castanheiro--A polite old gentleman--São Jozé--A new langu...

Canoe, stores, and crew--River Mojú--Igaripé Miri--Cametá--Senhor Gomez and his establishment--Search for a dinner--Jambouassú--Polite letter--Baião and its inhabitants--A swarm...

Leave Pará--Enter the Amazon--Its peculiar features--Arrive at Santarem--The town and its inhabitants--Voyage to Montealegre--Mosquito plague and its remedy--Journey to the Serr...

Visit to Olería--Habits of birds--Voyage to Mexiana--Arrival--Birds--Description of the island--Population--Slaves, their treatment and habits--Journey to the Lake--Beautiful st...

Start for the Uaupés--São Jeronymo and Jauarité--Indians run away--Numerous cataracts--Reach Carurú--Difficult passage--Painted Malocca--Devil music--More falls--Ocokí--Curious...

Festas--Portuguese and Brazilian currency--M. Borlaz' estate--Walk to the rice-mills--The virgin forest, its plants and insects--Milk-tree--Saw and rice-mills--Caripé or pottery...

Rapid current--An Indian Malocca--The Inmates--A Festival--Paint and ornaments--Illness--São Jeronymo--Passing the cataracts--Jauarité--The Tushaúa Calistro--Singular palm--Bird...

Leave Guía--Marabitánas--Serra de Cocoi--Enter Venezuela--São Carlos--Pass the Cassiquiare--Antonio Dias--Indian shipbuilders--Feather-work--Maróa and Pimichin--A black jaguar--...