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Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- CHAPTER I PARA
- CHAPTER II PARA
- CHAPTER III PARÁ
- CHAPTER IV THE TOCANTINS AND CAMETÁ
- CHAPTER V CARIPÍ AND THE BAY OF MARAJÓ
- CHAPTER VI THE LOWER AMAZONS—PARÁ TO OBYDOS
- CHAPTER VII THE LOWER AMAZONS—OBYDOS TO MANAOS, OR THE BARRA OF THE RIO NEGRO
- CHAPTER VIII SANTAREM
- CHAPTER IX VOYAGE UP THE TAPAJOS
- CHAPTER X THE UPPER AMAZONS—VOYAGE TO EGA
- CHAPTER XI EXCURSIONS IN THE NEIGHBOURHOOD OF EGA
- CHAPTER XII ANIMALS OF THE NEIGHBOURHOOD OF EGA
- CHAPTER XIII EXCURSIONS BEYOND EGA
- Index
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- CHAPTER I PARA
- CHAPTER II PARA
- CHAPTER III PARÁ
- CHAPTER IV THE TOCANTINS AND CAMETÁ
- CHAPTER V CARIPÍ AND THE BAY OF MARAJÓ
- CHAPTER VI THE LOWER AMAZONS—PARÁ TO OBYDOS
- CHAPTER VII THE LOWER AMAZONS—OBYDOS TO MANAOS, OR THE BARRA OF THE RIO NEGRO
- CHAPTER VIII SANTAREM
- CHAPTER IX VOYAGE UP THE TAPAJOS
- CHAPTER X THE UPPER AMAZONS—VOYAGE TO EGA
- CHAPTER XI EXCURSIONS IN THE NEIGHBOURHOOD OF EGA
- CHAPTER XII ANIMALS OF THE NEIGHBOURHOOD OF EGA
- CHAPTER XIII EXCURSIONS BEYOND EGA
- Index
Summary
I embarked at Liverpool, with Mr. Wallace, in a small trading vessel, on the 26th of April, 1848 ; and, after a swift passage from the Irish Channel to the equator, arrived, on the 26th of May, off Salinas. This is the pilot-station for vessels bound to Pará, the only port of entry to the vast region watered by the Amazons. It is a small village, formerly a missionary settlement of the Jesuits, situated a few miles to the eastward of the Pará river. Here the ship anchored in the open sea,.at a distance of six miles from the shore, the shallowness of the water far out around the mouth of the great river not permitting in safety a nearer approach ; and the signal was hoisted for a pilot. It was with deep interest that my companion and myself, both now about to see and examine the beauties of a tropical country for the first time, gazed on the land where I, at least, eventually spent eleven of the best years of my life. To the eastward the country was not remarkable in appearance, being slightly undulating, with bare sandhills and scattered trees; but to the westward, stretching towards the mouth of the river, we could see through the captain's glass a long line of forest, rising apparently out of the water; a densely-packed mass of tall trees, broken into groups, and finally into single trees, as it dwindled away in the distance.
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- The Naturalist on the River AmazonA Record of Adventures, Habits of Animals, Sketches of Brazilian and Indian Life, and Aspects of Nature under the Equator, during Eleven Years of Travel, pp. 1 - 18Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2009First published in: 1873