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  1    1,    1|    thought.~It contained about a hundred of these lines, with the
  2    1,    1|           at length, “here are a hundred lines very neatly written,
  3    1,    1|          Colombia, worth about a hundred francs; Brazilian reis,
  4    1,    1|         amount to more than five hundred francs, and Torres would
  5    1,    3|         which is here about five hundred feet across, there had been
  6    1,    3|          whom there were about a hundred, employed always for the
  7    1,    5|         the Atlantic Ocean eight hundred leagues away.~“And the river
  8    1,    5|         some gigantic polyp, two hundred tributaries, flowing from
  9    1,    5|           And in its course five hundred and sixty islands, without
 10    1,    5|       into the Atlantic over two hundred and fifty millions of cubic
 11    1,    5|  circumference of more than five hundred leagues!”~“And whose waters
 12    1,    5| northeast for a distance of five hundred and sixty miles, and does
 13    1,    5|         main stream twenty-eight hundred miles from the Atlantic,
 14    1,    5|          steamboats for over two hundred miles into the very heart
 15    1,    5|      huge plain, measuring three hundred and fifty leagues from north
 16    1,    6|       the country, larger than a hundred egariteas or vigilingas
 17    1,    6|         task. There were about a hundred Indians and blacks, and
 18    1,    6|       groaned to see giants many hundred years old fall in a few
 19    1,    6|        brown, were wax-palms one hundred and twenty feet high, and
 20    1,    6|   woodman’s ax; “sapucaias,” one hundred and fifty feet high, buttressed
 21    1,    7|    possible to count more than a hundred different species in a square
 22    1,    7|         the new trees are even a hundred years old, the general aspect
 23    1,    7|         another world! But eight hundred leagues of country to traverse,
 24    1,    8|          want it prolonged for a hundred years, and that my recollection
 25    1,    8|       with the steering, and the hundred and sixty arms were no more
 26    1,    8| themselves in the Atlantic eight hundred leagues away? Why, then,
 27    1,    9|      commander-in-chief. Several hundred bottles of sherry, port,
 28    1,    9|          even when worked with a hundred sturdy arms. It was from
 29    1,    9|        plateau which was about a hundred feet above the bank, and
 30    1,    9|           Quite a tribe from one hundred and fifty to two hundred
 31    1,    9|         hundred and fifty to two hundred Indians, without counting
 32    1,   10|         In Para, at Belem, eight hundred leagues from this little
 33    1,   10|        off the Cordilleras, many hundred leagues away, after having
 34    1,   10|      through a mouth about eight hundred yards across, after having
 35    1,   10|     there is a population of two hundred and sixty inhabitants, Benito
 36    1,   11|        are now not more than two hundred in number, and on the banks
 37    1,   11|     which measures more than two hundred thousand millions of leagues,
 38    1,   12|   Tabatinga is estimated at four hundred, nearly all Indians, comprising,
 39    1,   12|      occupy an oblong building a hundred feet away, at the foot of
 40    1,   12|           which is more than six hundred leagues from the Atlantic.
 41    1,   14|        artery by a mouth of four hundred meters in extent, after
 42    1,   15|        hind paddles a trench six hundred feet long, a dozen wide,
 43    1,   15|         every year that from two hundred and fifty to three hundred
 44    1,   15|       hundred and fifty to three hundred millions of eggs. But the
 45    1,   15|     trench in groups of from one hundred and sixty to one hundred
 46    1,   15|         hundred and sixty to one hundred and ninety. These there
 47    1,   15|    Putumayo, which is about nine hundred meters wide.~The Putumayo
 48    1,   15|    Navigable for a distance of a hundred and forty leagues for steamers
 49    1,   15|          an estuary of some four hundred feet across, in which it
 50    1,   15| re-enters the principal stream a hundred an twenty miles further
 51    1,   15|       portion of this measures a hundred and fifty feet across, the
 52    1,   15|     black waters by a mouth five hundred feet wide, and admired the
 53    1,   16|          chief town with fifteen hundred inhabitants, and in it reside
 54    1,   16|   laughingly. “More than fifteen hundred inhabitants! Two hundred
 55    1,   16|         hundred inhabitants! Two hundred houses at the very least!
 56    1,   16|         perhaps, for Ega is five hundred leagues away from Para,
 57    1,   16|         Japura, six thousand six hundred feet wide, was seen for
 58    1,   16|         falls to break until two hundred and ten leagues from its
 59    1,   16|    formerly occupied more than a hundred leagues of the river bank
 60    1,   16|   stationary. There were about a hundred of them armed with blow-tubes
 61    1,   16|         even at a range of three hundred paces.~These arrows, made
 62    1,   17|        large ships, of over five hundred leagues. It rises in the
 63    2,    1|        meridian. It is some four hundred and twenty leagues from
 64    2,    1|         course of some seventeen hundred miles it mingles its cloudy
 65    2,    1|    Amazon through a mouth eleven hundred feet wide, but such is its
 66    2,    6|          bounding the view a few hundred paces in advance.~Benito,
 67    2,    7|        clears our father! Yes! a hundred times, yes! The document
 68    2,    8|       the bed itself, about five hundred feet in width, that more
 69    2,    9|          my hands.”~“Plunge in a hundred times—a thousand times!”
 70    2,   10|        depth of from eighty to a hundred feet, and consequently was
 71    2,   10|      explorations lies between a hundred and twenty and a hundred
 72    2,   10|         hundred and twenty and a hundred and thirty feet, and that
 73    2,   12|         The document contained a hundred lines, which were divided
 74    2,   12|          them, pen in hand.~“Two hundred and seventy-six!” he said. “
 75    2,   12|       that we shall hit upon two hundred and seventy-six letters
 76    2,   12|        sixty-four vowels and two hundred and twelve consonants. Good!
 77    2,   13|       attract attention. The two hundred and fourth, two hundred
 78    2,   13|          hundred and fourth, two hundred and fifth, and two hundred
 79    2,   13|       hundred and fifth, and two hundred and sixth letters of the
 80    2,   13|       the paragraph, and the two hundred and fifty-eight, two hundred
 81    2,   13|     hundred and fifty-eight, two hundred and fifty-ninth, and two
 82    2,   13|         and fifty-ninth, and two hundred and sixtieth letters of
 83    2,   13|       can make three million two hundred and sixty-eight thousand
 84    2,   13|   sixty-eight thousand and eight hundred different numbers, and that
 85    2,   13|     employ every one of the five hundred and twenty-five thousand
 86    2,   13|     twenty-five thousand and six hundred minutes of which the year
 87    2,   14|          itself! One word of two hundred and seventy-six letters!
 88    2,   14|        wretch may be blessed two hundred and seventy-six times for
 89    2,   14|        He ought to be hanged two hundred and seventy-six times!”~
 90    2,   14|  diamonds was estimated at eight hundred and thirty-four contos,
 91    2,   15|        addition, a reward of one hundred contos (or three hundred
 92    2,   15|         hundred contos (or three hundred thousand francs) was promised
 93    2,   16|          difficult one it was.~A hundred paces away from the prison,
 94    2,   16|          canal side was hardly a hundred yards.~Benito and Manoel
 95    2,   16|       tributary, which, fed by a hundred affluents, descends from
 96    2,   16|    familiar to him for quite two hundred miles up, and in the midst
 97    2,   17|       for you on the canal not a hundred yards off. Araujo is there
 98    2,   19|      January, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-six, was thus
 99    2,   20|    Obidos, situated at about one hundred and eighty miles from Belem,
100    2,   20|          measures no less than a hundred and eighty leagues in circumference.
101    2,   20|           an important town of a hundred houses. Throughout these
102    2,   20|        after its voyage of eight hundred leagues on the great Brazilian