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  1    1,    2|          miles from the bank of the river, and he would even now find
  2    1,    2|         regain the left bank of the river by the shortest road, disappeared
  3    1,    3|           that portion of the great river which still bears the name
  4    1,    3|           at some distance from the river. But one day the springs
  5    1,    3|           about sixty feet from the river. It consists of some forty
  6    1,    3|             league further down the river to find on the same bank
  7    1,    3|              at the junction of the River Nanay, which is here about
  8    1,    3|        along the bank of the larger river. To the west some small
  9    1,    3|          mile along the bank of the river.~There, hospitable as he
 10    1,    3|           out along the bank of the river up to its junction with
 11    1,    3|       Indians. From the bank of the river, bordered with reeds and
 12    1,    3|        forests, on that bank of the river which bounded the horizon
 13    1,    4|          journey down this splendid river, even to the provinces on
 14    1,    4|     anything about this magnificent river system! Don’t let us travel
 15    1,    5|             THE AMAZON~“THE LARGEST river in the whole world!” said
 16    1,    5|      hundred leagues away.~“And the river which carries to the sea
 17    1,    5|         leagues from the coast.”~“A river whose course is developed
 18    1,    5|            Scotland, or Canada.”~“A river which, fed by its myriad
 19    1,    5|            of water every hour.”~“A river whose course serves as the
 20    1,    5|        fanned up by the breeze.”~“A river which three names are scarcely
 21    1,    5|           miles from its mouth.”~“A river which, by itself, its affluents,
 22    1,    5|          biggest and most admirable river system which we have in
 23    1,    5|        frenzy of their incomparable river. They were themselves children
 24    1,    5|        latitude.~Those who make the river rise in Bolivia, and descend
 25    1,    5|             Lauricocha the youthful river starts toward the northeast
 26    1,    5|          sea it is the Amasenas, or river of the Amazons, a name given
 27    1,    5| middle-sized affluents of the great river.~From its commencement the
 28    1,    5|           were it not for which the river would be navigable from
 29    1,    5|          beauties of this unrivaled river, which waters the finest
 30    1,    5|          renders the climate of the river Amazon agreeable, and even
 31    1,    5|          the provinces to which the river has given its name have
 32    1,    5|          Negro, arrived on the main river in 1540, ventured without
 33    1,    5|          explored the course of the river, ascended many of its tributaries,
 34    1,    5|        Liverpool, are plying on the river from its mouth up to Manaos;
 35    1,    5|           friends were watching the river as it gently flowed at their
 36    1,    6|        thinking of putting into the river. The service was worked
 37    1,    6|            necessity to descend the river in a hurry. And the determination
 38    1,    6|           considerable profits.~The river was there in front of him,
 39    1,    6|   acquainted with the depths of the river and the direction of its
 40    1,    6|           that is to say, the whole river side of the fazenda, to
 41    1,    6|          such were the jangadas, or river rafts, which attained the
 42    1,    6|        quantity on the banks of the river, up stream and down stream,
 43    1,    6|          sides by the waters of the river and its tributary, was destined
 44    1,    6|         time when the waters of the river, swollen by the floods,
 45    1,    6|             on their descent of the river.~As for Manoel, he divided
 46    1,    7|            a mile. As they left the river the trees assumed another
 47    1,    7|           the north, and toward the river. It became less inconvenient
 48    1,    7|             in the direction of the river, when they stopped, and
 49    1,    8|            the Nanay with the great river.~There it was that the jangada
 50    1,    8|        latitude. Hence this immense river system is under the same
 51    1,    8|          built it in comfort on the river bank. In fact, between the
 52    1,    8|      growing very abundantly on the river banks, is in universal use
 53    1,    8|           along the windings of the river and between the hundreds
 54    1,    8|           borders of some beautiful river! Until it descended between
 55    1,    8|         banks, go drifting down the river. Do they not pass along
 56    1,    9|        bordering on the stream. The river was expected to furnish
 57    1,    9|        rarer along the banks of the river, so that the natives are
 58    1,    9|  aggressions. The Indians along the river belong to peaceable tribes,
 59    1,    9|           and further away from the river and its tributaries. Negro
 60    1,    9|        number of settlements on the river—towns, villages, and missions.
 61    1,    9|           after the channels of the river, the deviations of the current,
 62    1,    9|         than that of descending the river with the family which was
 63    1,    9|             minute the level of the river rose, and during the twenty-four
 64    1,    9|              But as the fall of the river would be very rapid it would
 65    1,    9|             noted the points of the river gauge, and shouted “Hurrah!”
 66    1,    9|            toward the middle of the river, but, in obedience to the
 67    1,   10|           to the sinuosities of the river and its abrupt changes,
 68    1,   10|          plain, the gradient of the river bed is scarcely perceptible.
 69    1,   10|           league. There is no other river in the world whose inclination
 70    1,   10|      occasioned by the bends in the river, the numerous islands which
 71    1,   10|            away from the bed of the river with its prairies and its
 72    1,   10|            the islands of our great river are truly splendid! See
 73    1,   10|           the same left bank of the river, is almost abandoned for
 74    1,   10|         follow the left bank of the river, passing several unknown
 75    1,   10|        Island, from the name of the river which here comes in from
 76    1,   10|       wandered to the mouth of this river. They were robust in build,
 77    1,   10|        toward the right side of the river, which he had not yet approached.
 78    1,   10|           no communication with the river. One of these, bearing the
 79    1,   10|        flocks from the banks of the river and fearlessly perched on
 80    1,   10|      themselves on the right of the river through the spaces between
 81    1,   11|            picturesque banks of the river seemed to change like the
 82    1,   11|           very busy. The bed of the river gradually enlarged, but
 83    1,   11|             on the left bank of the river before arriving at the Brazilian
 84    1,   11|     territories on the north of the river, are natives with ruddy
 85    1,   11|          bedtime.~“Ah! our splendid river! our magnificent Amazon!”
 86    1,   11|            never failed.~“Unequaled river, in very truth,” said Manoel; “
 87    1,   11|          and that the waters of the river rise or fall according as
 88    1,   11|           beneath the waters of the river the imprudent ones who gaze
 89    1,   11|            you to the bottom of the river? Never, Mr. Benito!”~“She
 90    1,   11|             drag it ashore, but the river rose in anger, and the attempt
 91    1,   11|          along. This time again the river, in anger, broke off the
 92    1,   11|           Manoel; “and I think your river is worthy of them. But it
 93    1,   11|           to embark and descend the river to her husband. At the same
 94    1,   11|    continued her journey toward the river—the mother had lost her
 95    1,   12|             this island.~Above, the river is Peruvian, and is called
 96    1,   12|              at the entrance of the river of which it bears the name,
 97    1,   12|    scattered along the banks of the river, although in them a flagstaff
 98    1,   12|           steamers which ascend the river, and the Peruvian steamers
 99    1,   12|          considerable commerce.~The river is very beautiful along
100    1,   12|             means of descending the river. But here we are, on the
101    1,   12|           from the left bank of the river, Mayorunas from the right
102    1,   13|        intend, then, to go down the river?”~“Precisely.”~“Into Para?”~“
103    1,   14|      continued its journey down the river.~An extra passenger was
104    1,   14|     thousand feet in width, and the river comes in some miles above
105    1,   14|           the whitish waters of the river.~“They have tried to explain
106    1,   14|      recommenced its descent of the river.~At noon they passed on
107    1,   14|        peculiar phenomenon, for the river displaces itself to feed
108    1,   15|             had left the bed of the river to reconnoiter for a favorable
109    1,   15|           for the alligators of the river, who hold high revelry on
110    1,   15|           innumerable all along the river, and they deposit their
111    1,   15|           and the alligators in the river, their number has been so
112    1,   15|          town situated near a small river filled up with long grass,
113    1,   15|           palm-trees from which the river derives its name, the travelers
114    1,   15|    completely deserted banks of the river, and breasted some islands
115    1,   15|           southwest, soon joins the river on the left. A vessel can
116    1,   15|            almost parallel with the river.~Between them were canals,
117    1,   15|         turning aside from the main river.~In fact, he did so well
118    1,   16|             Yapura, after which the river, less interfered with, makes
119    1,   16|            a hundred leagues of the river bank between the Teffe and
120    1,   16|             the black waters of the river of the same name, and two
121    1,   16|             pirogue, going down the river, came alongside the jangada,
122    1,   17|          return by it into the main river. At five o’clock on the
123    1,   17|         trees, well prepared by the river floods which have bathed
124    1,   17|          its junction with the main river. After winding beneath the
125    1,   17|             ease. The course of the river was but slightly obstructed
126    1,   17|            was hurled back into the river, whose waters reddened all
127    1,   18|         Amazon. In reality the main river still bore the name of the
128    1,   18|           keep to the course of the river it was necessary, above
129    1,   19|           found it by chance in the River Abaete, at ninety leagues
130    1,   20|           from the left bank of the river and hailed the jangada.
131    2,    1|         bears the name of the great river at whose mouth it is placed;
132    2,    2|         toward the left bank of the river, “I must find out Torres.
133    2,    2|          observing the state of the river, came up to them.~“Have
134    2,    2|            on the right bank of the river at a few miles from Manaos?”~
135    2,    2|       jangada, again started on the river, began to drift off diagonally.
136    2,    3|        descend the beautiful Amazon river. He knew sufficient of Yaquita
137    2,    3|           then ready to go down the river. Joam Dacosta embarked on
138    2,    6|           had to go back toward the river, and the shortest way was
139    2,    6|          feet above the Amazon. The river slowly flowed at the foot,
140    2,    6|       scooped away, it overhung the river. He perceived the danger;
141    2,    6|           beneath the waters of the river.~Benito was supported on
142    2,    7|           whole of this part of the river, if necessary, but we will
143    2,    8|       knowledge of the state of the river at its confluence with the
144    2,    8|             should have to drag the river throughout a large area,
145    2,    8|             sound every part of the river at the base of the bluff
146    2,    8|            reeds shot up out of the river unbent. Every hope then
147    2,    8|        stream. Where the bed of the river showed sufficient slope,
148    2,    8|            nor on the bottom of the river, whose slope was then carefully
149    2,    8|    exclaimed Benito, “to search the river throughout its breadth and
150    2,    8|             on the sandy bed of the river, it could not have been
151    2,    8|         sounded that portion of the river.~Not an island, not an islet,
152    2,    8|             and Manoel, divided the river between the Rio Negro and
153    2,    8|        rakes were thrown in and the river bottom stirred up in every
154    2,    8|            the whole surface of the river up to the bar of Frias.~
155    2,    8|           the night in dragging the river. Of every minute lost all
156    2,    8|          have entirely explored the river along the whole of the banks
157    2,    8|            body of Torres is in the river, and we shall find it if——”~“
158    2,    8|         seen a single cayman in the river?”~“Not one,” said Fragoso.~“
159    2,    9|          about on the bottom of the river the raft follows his movements,
160    2,    9|         detritus accumulated in the river bed, and on his giving the
161    2,   10|            divert the waters of the river, to turn them into vapor,
162    2,   10|       started on the descent of the river, and what terrible trials
163    2,   10|             darkness concealing the river bed.~The young man slowly
164    2,   10|         leave a single point of the river unexplored, he never caught
165    2,   10|      however, that the slope of the river bed was very abrupt, and
166    2,   10|              where the depth of the river necessitated it, he had
167    2,   10|             the deeper parts of the river.”~Benito promised to attend
168    2,   10|            toward the center of the river the current increased in
169    2,   10|         scattered on the bed of the river, and to approach them with
170    2,   10|           of which rolled along the river bed, then violently agitated
171    2,   10|             the very deepest of the river depths.~And then a last
172    2,   11|             Manaos, had come up the river and passed the bar at Frias.
173    2,   11|           down to the bottom of the river, had been sufficient to
174    2,   11|          was drifting away down the river.~“Torres was only a scoundrel,”
175    2,   15|            only have to descend the river for about fifty miles, to
176    2,   16|             easy way of gaining the river if a pirogue were in waiting
177    2,   16|        across the country or by the river. Neither by horse not pirogue
178    2,   16|       abounded on both sides of the river. The description of the
179    2,   16|          continually descending the river.~Araujo had no objection
180    2,   18|       followed the left bank of the river. All his means had gone
181    2,   18|           which was employed in the river provinces of the Madeira.~
182    2,   20|          the voyage down the mighty river. It was but a series of
183    2,   20|          settled on the left of the river, with its little houses,
184    2,   20|             Faro and its celebrated river of the Nhamundas, on which,
185    2,   20|            the immortal name of the river of the Amazons.~Here it
186    2,   20|     narrowed the valley of the huge river.~“To the right,” said he, “
187    2,   20|          left in the rear.~Then the river divided into two important
188    2,   20|           of six hours to raise the river from twelve to fifteen feet
189    2,   20|      continued its journey down the river. Here, at the risk of entanglement,
190    2,   20|     numerous vessels descending the river, ubas, egariteas, vigilandas,
191    2,   20|         rounded a sharp bend in the river, Belem came into sight.~
192    2,   20|           did not the ledges of the river banks afford sifficient
193    2,   20|             holiday costume. On the river, vessels of all sorts crammed
194    2,   20|          easier. Was not the mighty river a bond of communication