Exploration of the Valley of the Amazon: Made Under Direction of the Navy Department, Part 2R. Armstrong [etc.] public printer, 1854 - 339 pàgines |
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Exploration of the Valley of the Amazon: Made Under Direction of the ..., Part 2 William Lewis Herndon Visualització completa - 1853 |
Exploration of the Valley of the Amazon: Made Under Direction of the ..., Part 2 William Lewis Herndon,Lardner Gibbon Visualització completa - 1854 |
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Amazon arrived arrobas ascend Barra beach boat Brazil Brazilian called Calm canoe carried Castelnau Cerro Pasco Chanchamayo Chasuta cirro-cumulus clouds cirrus clouds clear commenced Conibos Cordillera cotton cultivation cumulus clouds Cuzco distance Egas eight Father feet five forest four Gibbon give governor hacienda half cents heavy hills hour Huallaga Huallaga River Huanuco hundred and fifty Ijurra Indians inhabitants island lake land Light air Light breeze Lima miles mines Moderate breeze Montaña mountains mouth mules Mundrucus musquitoes Nauta navigation nearly Negro night Noon Pachitea padre Pará passed Peru Peruvian port pounds province Purus rain right bank river road rock Santarem Sarayacu sarsaparilla seemed Shapaja shore squall of wind stratus clouds stream Tabatinga Tapajos Tarapoto Tarma thirty thousand dollars Ticunas Tingo Maria told town traveller trees tributaries twenty twenty-five Ucayali valley village woods yards
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Pàgina 361 - crag of Drachenfels Frowns o'er the wide and winding Rhine, Whose breast of waters broadly swells Between the banks that bear the vine; And hills all rich with blossomed trees, And fields that promise
Pàgina 356 - also immediately extended to the citizens of the other contracting party, who shall enjoy the same gratuitously, or on giving a compensation as nearly as possible of proportionate value and effect, to he adjusted by mutual agreement, if the concession shall have been conditional.
Pàgina 231 - [SEAL OF THE LEGATION.] I, Sergio Teixeira de Macedo, of the Council of his Majesty, the Emperor of Brazil, his Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary near the United States of America, Officer of the Imperial Order of the Rose, Grand Cross of that of Christ, and Commendador of various Foreign Orders,
Pàgina 339 - they are taken, by means of small harpoons fastened to long cords. When the cords are very dry, the Indians feel no shock in raising the fish into the air. In a few minutes we had five large eels, the greater part of which were but slightly wounded.
Pàgina 338 - de Bera to make our experiments, in the open air, on the borders of the water itself. To catch the gymnoti with nets is very difficult, on account of the extreme agility of the fish, which bury themselves in the mud like serpents. .We would not employ the barbasco. These means would have enfeebled the
Pàgina 338 - 1 We found it difficult to form an idea of this extraordinary manner of fishing; but we soon saw our guides return from the Savannah, which they had been scouring for wild horses and mules. They brought about thirty with them, which they forced to enter the pool. "The extraordinary noise caused by the horses
Pàgina 338 - gives a very interesting account of the manner of taking these eels by means of horses, which shows that they are peculiarly susceptible to the shock. He says: "Impatient of waiting, and having obtained very uncertain results from an electrical eel that had been brought to us alive, but much enfeebled, we repaired to the
Pàgina 60 - lake. Though not yet sixty miles from the sea, we had crossed the great "divide" which separates the waters of the Atlantic from those of the Pacific. The last steps of our mules had made a striking change in our geographical relations; so
Pàgina 339 - water. Others, panting, with main erect, and haggard eyes, expressing anguish, raise themselves, and endeavor to flee from the storm by which they are overtaken. They are driven back by the Indians into
Pàgina 216 - shoulders, and a chaplet, made of white feathers from the wings of a smaller bird, is worn around the head. This generally completes the costume, though I did see one dandy who had stuck short white feathers all over his face, leaving only the eyes, nose, and mouth exposed. The curaca, and some