Jules Verne Eight hundred leagues on the Amazon Concordances (Hapax - words occurring once) |
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1002 1, 6| leave to Benito all the detail of the trading part of the 1003 1, 11| tried all they could to detain him, and Yaquita and her 1004 2, 20| While the arrest of Joam detained them at Manaos, halfway 1005 2, 16| which served for a house of detention was built, was traversed 1006 1, 5| eighteenth century” to accurately determine the latitude and longitude 1007 2, 17| intervention of Torres, the detestable bargain proposed by the 1008 2, 11| attacked me! But the noise? the detonation?”~“A cannon shot!” replied 1009 2, 20| difficulty that their joyous detonations could cope with the loud 1010 2, 6| the bank, making a slight detour so as not to be observed 1011 1, 5| be accomplished without detriment to the indigenous races.~ 1012 2, 9| stir up the vegetation and detritus accumulated in the river 1013 1, 7| the heat required for the development of their sap is derived 1014 1, 9| channels of the river, the deviations of the current, the eddies 1015 1, 9| good to eat; “piranhas,” or devil-fish, striped with red bands, 1016 2, 16| presence, and were engaged in devising some means by which the 1017 2, 13| that it was not utterly devoid of meaning, and that it 1018 1, 8| and Fragoso on the other, devolved the care of decorating the 1019 1, 3| the fazenda, deciding to devote to it all his powers.~Magalhaës 1020 1, 6| mistress to whom she was so devotedly attached. Minha was a trifle 1021 1, 2| herbivore, and longed to devour the captain of the woods, 1022 2, 6| neither his strength nor his dexgterity, the chances were greatly 1023 1, 12| witticisms, the same amusing dexterity, and, on the part of the 1024 2, 2| river, began to drift off diagonally. Araujo, cleverly profiting 1025 1, 10| hundreds of names in the ‘Tupi’ dialect with which these islands 1026 1, 19| watercourses to get at the diamantiferous sand. Formerly it was easier 1027 2, 19| administration du district diamantin, 3432513 43 251343251343251 1028 2, 19| véritable auteur du vol des diamants et de 43 251343251 343251 1029 2, 10| from eight to ten inches in diameter.~Gymnotuses are plentiful 1030 1, 14| tributaries of the Amazon, which differ greatly in importance.~Manoel 1031 1, 9| their customary sheds. They differed from the cabins by being 1032 1, 15| easily recognizable by the differences in their tattoo marks.~The 1033 1, 15| animals fresh.~They proceed differently with the little turtles 1034 1, 2| disposition, and not very savage, differing therein very greatly from 1035 1, 15| were soon after occupied in digging with their hind paddles 1036 1, 3| believe that nothing should diminish our natural obligation in 1037 1, 1| of fugitives were rapidly diminishing. While, however, the calling 1038 1, 7| called “antas” in Brazil, diminutives of the elephant, already 1039 1, 14| accepted an invitation to dine with the family, and they 1040 1, 8| several bedrooms and a large dining-hall. One of the rooms was destined 1041 1, 16| get into the house or the dining-room, as I feared?”~“No, all 1042 1, 11| offered him a seat at the dinner-table.~On that day was given a 1043 2, 16| traversed by them in all directions, for they had come to study 1044 2, 4| magistrate, appealed to so directly, was about to start up in 1045 1, 12| Assuredly, the exquisites of the Directory would have envied the arrangement 1046 1, 10| swim or fly; a bird with a disagreeable cry, but whose down bears 1047 1, 11| walks on the banks, but disappears like a water sprite as soon 1048 2, 8| Benito. They feared that the disappointment would only force him to 1049 2, 15| jumped forward and managed to disarm him.~“Benito,” said Jarriquez, 1050 2, 6| would have been that instant disarmed. But his desire to wait 1051 1, 20| said Torres, evidently disconcerted.~“At Judge Ribeiro’s,” answered 1052 2, 13| I have not yet given up discovering the cipher. After all, it 1053 2, 16| have been most valuable. Discreet and devoted, his services 1054 1, 14| Manoel Valdez, and always discreetly. Generally, when he was 1055 2, 2| Manaens did not outrun their discretion, and they were very quiet.~ 1056 1, 10| always formed a group apart, discussing their future projects just 1057 1, 7| serious, long-continued discussions, in which no one would give 1058 1, 10| before nightfall, Benito disembarked, taking with him the ever-ready 1059 1, 7| necessary to go back and disentangle it from the knot of parasitic 1060 2, 10| head swayed to and fro, and disentangling itself from the hole in 1061 2, 11| sojourn in the water had not disfigured him very much. He was easily 1062 1, 14| specimen which would not disgrace the collection of a museum!” 1063 2, 4| hair, which would not have disgraced the judges wig of the past; 1064 2, 12| document was written in a disguised form in one of the numerous 1065 1, 17| all with such aversion and disgust—I should not hesitate to 1066 1, 11| vinegar and “malagueta;” a dish of spiced herbs, and cold 1067 2, 17| was unalterable, “is to dishonor myself, and you with me! 1068 1, 16| their pirogue, somewhat disillusioned perhaps as to the magnificence 1069 1, 2| the guariba did not seen disinclined to change characters this 1070 1, 16| Manoel, who had taken a great dislike to the man and only waited 1071 1, 20| restrained by a gesture his dismayed children and servants.~“ 1072 1, 18| obtaining from Joam Garral the dismissal of his rescuer.~“Your life 1073 2, 12| brain was capable.~Before dismissing Benito and his companions, 1074 2, 16| his assistance had to be dispensed with.~At daybreak Benito 1075 1, 7| sparrow-hawk. If he proudly hooted, displaying in the air the long white 1076 1, 15| attentions, although they were displeasing to Manoel, were not sufficiently 1077 1, 18| see the troops of monkeys disporting in the higher branches, 1078 2, 1| when put to the test, was disproved, and with extreme regret, 1079 2, 13| contain a proposition beyond dispute, looking Manoel straight 1080 1, 5| after numerous frontier disputes between France and Brazil, 1081 2, 4| Joam Dacosta, who did not disregard the magistrate’s far from 1082 2, 16| sufficiently master of himself to dissemble the anxiety which consumed 1083 2, 10| the huge shadow would be dissipated, and the reflection of the 1084 2, 2| that evening, but Manoel dissuaded him.~“Wait till to-morrow,” 1085 2, 6| the slightest thought of dissuading him.~“I will ask, then,” 1086 1, 1| with the letters at even distances, and undivided into words. 1087 2, 11| its decomposition and the distension of its cellular system. 1088 1, 1| Amazon, to which fermented distillation of the root of the sweet 1089 1, 9| acidulated taste, which is distilled from the boiled root of 1090 2, 1| those waters lose their distinctive character. Hereabouts the 1091 2, 16| None?”~“Nevertheless, I distinctly see one word in the document— 1092 2, 3| him. Everything agreed in distinguishing Dacosta as the true and 1093 1, 17| anything of that sort; but it distresses me to see this adventurer 1094 1, 10| black waters, which are distributed along the course of the 1095 1, 7| feathers, shut up at the least disturbance.~“Well?” said Benito.~“I 1096 1, 10| caiarara,” as quick to dive as to swim or fly; a bird 1097 1, 6| in the most precious and diverse species adapted for joinery, 1098 1, 6| woodmen. The old trunks were divested of their clothing of creepers, 1099 2, 20| compelled the Amazon to divide before precipitating its 1100 2, 3| magistrate? We can easily divine them. It was no longer to 1101 2, 9| execution, and got into the diving dress. His head disappeared 1102 2, 9| to his convenience.~These diving-dresses are now much improved, and 1103 2, 13| asked Manoel, without divining the deduction that could 1104 1, 6| convenient, and on the whole the division was very unequal, as may 1105 2, 17| official who could have divulged the secret of the expedition, 1106 2, 4| Dacosta,” quickly replie dJudge Jarriquez. “You protest 1107 1, 17| When I see the shifty, dogged look of Torres, all this 1108 1, 14| to ask for mercy! These dogs die hard, and no less than 1109 1, 4| much less a stranger to the doings of her life.”~This time 1110 1, 12| intelligent artist-king Dom Pedro.~“What is your privilege 1111 2, 1| spreading out its large dome-like parasol above its gnarled 1112 1, 16| formed by undulating high domes, which served as the barriers 1113 1, 3| found better examples of the domestic virtues? Would her mind 1114 1, 7| seconded as they were by the domestics of the fazenda, had not 1115 2, 19| huit-cent vingt-six, n’est donc pas Joam Dacosta, 5134 3251 1116 2, 12| of reveille to arouse his dormant faculties.~“Let us see,” 1117 1, 1| captain had added a good dose of “tafia” or native rum.~ 1118 1, 1| the neighboring States—ten double-condors in gold of the United States 1119 2, 2| current of the Amazon, here doubled in force by that of the 1120 1, 3| countries, where a herd doubles in four years, and where 1121 2, 17| vindication, it was on no such doubtful hypothesis that Joam Dacosta 1122 2, 2| abandoning my father and doubting his innocence—as though 1123 2, 2| them all day. No one here doubts my father’s innocence—not 1124 1, 17| turn and ran toward them.~A doze of buckshot to the head, 1125 1, 11| whose look fascinates and drages beneath the waters of the 1126 2, 8| have passed the night in dragging the river. Of every minute 1127 1, 7| branches, here jumping form a dragon-tree to a rosewood, then from 1128 2, 9| struggle on with poles and drags like a blind man who only 1129 2, 10| turn them into vapor, or to drain them off—if he could have 1130 1, 19| eight years old, a terrible drama happened at Tijuco, which 1131 2, 14| followed the phases of this dramatic affair.~But, on the other 1132 1, 15| steamers of not greater draught than six feet, it may one 1133 2, 9| Manoel then was right in drawing the distinction between 1134 2, 4| should have taught him to dread, and herein would be on 1135 2, 15| before him, Benito looking dreadfully pale, and Manoel supporting 1136 1, 4| been successful beyond your dreams, and if the hour of repose 1137 2, 8| the deeps, and hence a few dredges—or rather harrows, made 1138 1, 1| in fact belonged to the dregs of society, and we shall 1139 1, 16| exclaimed Benito.~“If those dresses were worn properly,” said 1140 1, 3| springs in their territory all dried up under the influence of 1141 1, 12| each, the natives could get drinks of the crudest, and particularly 1142 1, 10| straw, over which there drooped the large leaves of some 1143 1, 10| and sometimes, while the droughts are on, it is even less. 1144 2, 9| The first movement of a drowning man is to try and hold as 1145 2, 19| 43 251343251 l4msyuhqpz drrgcroh e pqxu fivv rpl ph onthvddqf~ 1146 2, 19| unraveling the cryptogram, dtanks to the sagacity of Judge 1147 1, 17| share your aversion for this dubious individual, and had I consulted 1148 2, 6| beast.”~The place where the duel was about to take place 1149 1, 15| superintend the collection of the dues. To certain beaches which 1150 1, 1| I am not the greatest of duffers!”~It seemed as though the 1151 1, 7| despair, which I would have duly regretted had the regrets 1152 1, 2| cheated and hoaxed by a dumb animal, was maddening. And 1153 1, 18| could scarcely be described. Duplicates of grandeur, terminated 1154 1, 5| even delightful.”~The Abbé Durand has likewise testified that 1155 1, 8| was to be of some months’ duration, to make it as complete 1156 1, 11| those large rays called “duridaris,” with rose-colored stomachs 1157 1, 2| considerable precision, which the dwellers in the forest of the upper 1158 1, 10| placed about the base of the dwelling-house.~“Well, padre,” said Benito, “ 1159 2, 17| portion of whose justice yet dwells in the hearts of men. No! 1160 1, 12| woods which yield a reddish dye. From this has come the 1161 1, 9| balsam for wounds; bales of dyeing plants, cases of several 1162 2, 19| 32513432 51 34 Ph yjslyddf dzxgas gz zqq ehx gkfndrxu ju gi~ 1163 2, 8| in place of the body so eagerly searched for, there would 1164 1, 12| men and women, with equal eagerness, took their places on the 1165 1, 7| the large white-headed eagle, the terror of the whole 1166 1, 3| days a good workman could earn from five to six piastres 1167 1, 10| the pilot the ropes were eased off, and the poles applied 1168 1, 15| which, coming from the east-southeast, brings in its black waters 1169 1, 10| of her grounding on the easterly shore of the island of Sinicure; 1170 1, 8| igariteos. Tables, bamboo easy-chairs, cane sofas, carved wood 1171 1, 2| but for the pleasure of eating it.~Whatever it was, the 1172 2, 16| could sell the fazenda, eave his country forever, and 1173 1, 5| pororoca,’ to which the ebbs, the bores, and the eddies 1174 1, 2| is without doubt the most eccentric. Of sociable disposition, 1175 1, 6| it not be as safely and economically used as a railway if one 1176 1, 1| certain reasons of political economy the hour of general emancipation 1177 2, 12| was to give himself the ecstasy of reading it all straight 1178 1, 4| horizon which bounded his Eden.~From this it followed that 1179 1, 7| belonging to the order of edentates, with their scaly shells 1180 1, 7| bound with brown; golden[-edged beccaficos; and “sabias,” 1181 2, 19| zmqiz tlb qgyu gsqe uvb nrcc edgruzb~injustement condamné à mort, 1182 1, 7| infinitely better from an edible point of view than the huge 1183 2, 19| loud voice, and for the edification of all, read from the document 1184 1, 12| the names of the capillary edifices—for the monuments reared 1185 2, 10| the gymnotus is a kind of eel, with a blackish, slimy 1186 1, 18| lasted about two hours, was effected without accident.~Three 1187 1, 16| the fashions of the fair Egans, not the primitive costume 1188 1, 15| they were rammers.~This egg-laying operation is a grand affair 1189 1, 15| entrance of the Lake of Ego, or Teffe, which it was 1190 2, 19| Ph yjslyddf dzxgas gz zqq ehx gkfndrxu ju gi~l’assassinat 1191 1, 8| said Benito.~“Oh, trees!” ejaculated Minha.~“Why not?” replied 1192 2, 14| Jarriquez such a vigorous ejaculation that Bobo disappeared like 1193 2, 9| for carrying off the air ejected from the lungs, and which 1194 1, 15| animals were vigorously ejecting the air which had become 1195 1, 1| generally clothed, not over elaborately, his garments bore witness 1196 1, 17| scientific name is siphonia elastica.~It is said that, by negligence 1197 1, 20| still calm, took a seat. His elbow rested on a small table, 1198 1, 4| Joam Garral leaned on his elbows. For a moment he hid his 1199 1, 13| was dressed in a somewhat elegant traveling costume, which 1200 2, 12| was at last in his true element.~At the thought that the 1201 1, 7| Brazil, diminutives of the elephant, already nearly undiscoverable 1202 2, 8| narrowness of the channel and the elevation of the bed made the passage 1203 1, 5| is situated between the eleventh and twelfth degree of south 1204 1, 4| there was no need for much eloquence. At the first words the 1205 1, 16| life, but the adventurer eluded all conversation on the 1206 1, 7| breastplates of bronze, and green elytræ, with yellow light pouring 1207 1, 10| see everybody happy around em!”~At this moment the voice 1208 1, 7| clothed badly enough, much emaciated, and he seemed to have suffered 1209 1, 1| economy the hour of general emancipation had been delayed, but the 1210 2, 19| Brazilian frontier, his embarkation on the jangada; and lastly, 1211 1, 14| Manoel, “but why it is rather embarrassing to say. For instance, is 1212 1, 7| get his sister out of her embarrassment; “if we walk on we shall 1213 2, 17| May I see my family, and embrace for a last time my wife 1214 2, 17| last time the prisoner had embraced them, and with redoubled 1215 1, 7| maribunda bees, like living emeralds set in sockets of gold, 1216 1, 16| stored and mixed up, and emerge by a narrow channel into 1217 1, 15| before the black points emerged at a little distance, and 1218 1, 12| present to cannonade on an emergency any vessel which does not 1219 1, 5| just in time to observe an emersion of the first satellite of 1220 1, 14| hand that the traveler, Emile Carrey, has so justly observed: “ 1221 2, 14| his fist on the document emphasized this charitable wish.~“But,” 1222 2, 19| pqxu fivv rpl ph onthvddqf~employé de l’administration du district 1223 1, 1| mixed blood from certain employments, it was evident that if 1224 1, 9| which would probably be emptied before they arrived at Para.~ 1225 2, 19| document and the cipher to enable it to be read. New instructions 1226 2, 18| The name of Ortega had enabled him to discover it! At length 1227 1, 17| though no positive fact enables me to explain my fear to 1228 1, 11| shoulder, reminded one of an encampment of Tartar horsemen. The 1229 1, 1| and in addition he had an “enchada,” which is a sort of hoe, 1230 1, 2| it contained. The music enchanted him. It was like a rattle 1231 1, 7| It was truly a scene of enchantment.~But all were silent and 1232 1, 10| the girdle of reeds which encircles them through which a pirogue 1233 1, 15| up it into Peru without encountering insurmountable obstacles 1234 1, 12| a brasier.~And then the encouragements of the artist to the crowd!~“ 1235 1, 12| will take every care not to endanger the edifice which I have 1236 1, 18| to the jangada would have endangered the complete demolition 1237 1, 3| price you would pay for my endeavors is out of all proportion 1238 1, 6| again became the active, energetic man of his earlier years, 1239 2, 10| mental powers and physical energies would let him. By some strange 1240 1, 12| shams! These head were not enfeebled by cuttings nor thinned 1241 2, 19| were the adieus, but an engagement was made for them to see 1242 1, 14| least prevent them from engaging in trade. They even intrusted 1243 1, 5| 1866, in 1967 the Brazilian engineer Franz Keller-Linzenger, 1244 1, 9| penal colonies of Brazil, England, Holland, or France, are 1245 2, 7| killed, and that his body was engulfed in the waters of the Amazon, 1246 2, 15| series of letters just as enigmatic.~At eight o’clock in the 1247 1, 18| reply, hyperbolical and enigmatical at the time, Benito had 1248 1, 14| waters to the others to enjoy themselves in.”~“They are 1249 1, 18| phenicopters of every color, enlivened the temporary morass.~And 1250 1, 10| mention a dozen partridges, enriched the larder after this fortunate 1251 2, 19| at the horrible idea of enriching himself by means of murder 1252 1, 7| the labyrinth, and perhaps entangle them more deeply.~It was 1253 2, 20| river. Here, at the risk of entanglement, it grazed the branches 1254 1, 2| chase. He ran at top speed, entangling himself in the high undergrowth, 1255 1, 17| palms, and cecropias, it enters the Amazon by five mouths.~ 1256 1, 16| demonstrations, although they entertain a profound hatred toward 1257 1, 12| their ears. The smiling entertainer, half in Portuguese, half 1258 2, 15| acerbity. In the midst of this enthralment of public opinion, which 1259 1, 4| father!”~And the young enthusiast, whose imagination was already 1260 1, 9| had availed themselves enthusiastically of this occasion of taking 1261 1, 20| reputation to which he was entitled. But death came—he intrusted 1262 1, 11| minister to the happiness of entomologists,” replied Manoel; “and I 1263 1, 8| all sides. In front, the entrance-door gave immediate access to 1264 2, 7| had it not been for the entreaties of Yaquita, of his sister, 1265 1, 16| it an order?”~“It is an entreaty!”~“I will remain!”~“Mr. 1266 2, 5| Dacosta behind his last entrenchments.~“And so,” he said, “all 1267 1, 4| to whom we are about to entrust her? Added to this, Minha 1268 2, 17| history of his life from his entry into the offices of the 1269 2, 4| and drew a letter from the envelope. He opened it and read it, 1270 1, 8| from the windows. The beds, enveloped in mosquito curtains, had 1271 1, 12| the Directory would have envied the arrangement of these 1272 1, 16| answered Minha, “I do not envy any of them.”~But they had 1273 1, 18| miniature on some table epergne, and their reflection could 1274 2, 9| the water will float if equilibrium is established between its 1275 1, 7| Iquitos. The young men went equipped for the chase, but as sportsmen 1276 2, 14| down their cryptological equivalents the number could be arrived 1277 2, 20| its turn disappear.~But, ere this was done, a ceremony 1278 1, 9| only to speak of one or two erections of different kinds which 1279 2, 2| innocent man! Confess your errors and set matters right.”~“ 1280 1, 3| influence of a volcanic eruption, and they were obliged to 1281 2, 12| produce. But if that proof escapes me, if the whole tenor of 1282 2, 19| assassinat des soldats qui escortaient le convoi, 32513432513 432 1283 1, 1| say, double; some Chilian escudos, worth fifty francs or more, 1284 1, 10| importance of a veritable essay.~Benito, all observation, 1285 1, 9| the manufacture of certain essential oils; sassafras, from which 1286 1, 9| family held him in great esteem; it was he who had married 1287 2, 19| auteur du vol des diamants et de 43 251343251 343251 34 1288 2, 19| 43 251343251 3432513 432 etnpmv ffov pd pajx hy ynojyggay 1289 2, 19| ypohdvy rym huhpuydkjox ph etozsl~commis dans la nuit du vingt-deux 1290 1, 16| from the sap of one of the euphorbiaceæ and the juice of a bulbous 1291 1, 7| here round the kinds of euphorbias, which produce caoutchouc, “ 1292 2, 1| Indians, also on the road to Europeanization in a way which bids fair 1293 1, 9| of great worth, full of evangelical fervor, charitable and good, 1294 2, 13| magistrate would certainly have evaporated under the intense heat into 1295 1, 5| observable, and produces an evaporation, thanks to which the temperature 1296 2, 5| sir, that my arrest on the eve of the arrival of the raft 1297 2, 16| him by Benito to meet all eventualities during the voyage on the 1298 1, 10| disembarked, taking with him the ever-ready Fragoso, and the two sportsmen 1299 2, 6| avenge my father, and as everyhthing here ought to be in order, 1300 | everywhere 1301 1, 16| their excursion. Torres had evinced no desire to visit Ega, 1302 2, 15| that chance. He tried to evoke it by all means possible 1303 2, 13| have been impossible to evolve the number which is the 1304 1, 7| Benito asked him.~“An ex-hanger-on, as far as I see.”~“But 1305 2, 16| the locality with great exactness, particularly as regarded 1306 1, 17| of jealousy, though, that exasperates you against such a man?” 1307 2, 13| excitement that solitude was exasperating to him. He wanted some one 1308 2, 14| himself into such a state of exasperation that there really was some 1309 2, 10| in a considerable hole, excavated far below the ordinary level.~ 1310 1, 7| tree of the tropics, par excellence, which, according to Humboldt, “ 1311 1, 7| chestnut, the “Bertholletia excelsa,” to some of the wine palms, “ 1312 2, 9| completely immersed. Hence an excess of weight, and eventually 1313 2, 7| and who could say to what excesses these half-barbarous men 1314 1, 16| witness. He heard a few words exchanged between Joam and the Indian, 1315 2, 14| population of Manaos, who excitedly followed the phases of this 1316 2, 18| done over the first.~An exclamation immediately escaped him. 1317 1, 1| the Brazilian law still excluded mulattoes and others of 1318 1, 1| was evident that if such exclusion had affected him, it had 1319 1, 14| spoke about some of his excursions into the interior of Brazil 1320 1, 20| Garral, and I will rigorously execute my warrant.”~Joam restrained 1321 2, 7| the two Americas, where executions under Lynch law are of frequent 1322 1, 3| such as imagine that riches exempt men from work—he was one 1323 1, 3| Thanks to the good management exercised by the young clerk over 1324 1, 9| padre did not allow of his exercising his important ministry any 1325 2, 6| Torres.~Benito, wishing to exhaust every means of conciliation, 1326 1, 16| whose eyes seemed to have expanded so that she might see better.~“ 1327 1, 6| twisted column, whose head expands in a bouquet of vegetable 1328 2, 12| I have nothing more to expect from the justice of men, 1329 1, 13| the spot to satisfy the expectant crowd, when a stranger arrived 1330 2, 2| where he was waiting in expectation of our arrival.”~“And it 1331 2, 15| quantity of phosphorus is expended in the work of the brain, 1332 2, 10| feet, and consequently was experiencing a pressure of three atmospheres. 1333 2, 14| about his head.~“Ah!” he explaimed, “why did not the scoundrel 1334 2, 11| This well-known phenomenon explains the reappearance of the 1335 1, 8| destination.~And here an explanatory note is necessary in regard 1336 2, 14| solution, even if his head exploded like an overheated boiler 1337 1, 13| mulatto an account of his exploits, and repeated, with no little 1338 2, 10| limit for such submarine explorations lies between a hundred and 1339 1, 5| source still baffles our explorers. Numbers of States still 1340 1, 19| smugglers who fraudulently export it. But the work in the 1341 1, 13| stool without causing any expostulation on the part of the natives 1342 1, 12| district. Assuredly, the exquisites of the Directory would have 1343 2, 6| deserted. Far away the view exstended across the flat, where cultivated 1344 1, 12| matter.~If Brazil wished to extend to the Rio Napo in the west, 1345 2, 13| trouble and a headache which extends from my occiput to my sinciput.”~“ 1346 1, 8| which are, perhaps, more extensive than the great artery of 1347 1, 14| piassaba.” This trade is here extensively followed. It may, perhaps, 1348 1, 3| less apt in the various external requirements of his trade. 1349 1, 16| cease to beat until the extinction of the vital functions, 1350 2, 15| all they could together to extract the secret from the document 1351 1, 15| chelonians, and proceed to the extraction of the eggs to the sound 1352 1, 15| still soft, their flesh extremely tender, and after they have 1353 1, 16| disappeared.~Fragoso, in an exuberant moment, had tried to reply 1354 1, 13| some minutes the stranger eyed Fragoso attentively with 1355 1, 12| supple fibers are used in the fabrication of hammocks and fishing-nets, 1356 2, 3| had even instigated and facilitated his flight! But what the 1357 2, 3| Joam Dacosta, who had every facility for informing the scoundrels 1358 2, 15| Para” had reproduced it in facsimile. Autograph copies were spread 1359 1, 5| most European rivers would fail to contain them. But the 1360 2, 7| added; “if this last hope fails it will kill them!”~“Go, 1361 2, 20| descried, and beyond them the faint summits of veritable mountains 1362 1, 17| knocked him down too.~Minha fainted, and the mouth of the alligator 1363 1, 12| as they generally have at fairs. No; but Fragoso had his 1364 1, 12| cuttings nor thinned by fallings-off, but were forests in all 1365 2, 4| shall get into denials and falsehoods.”~“The real motive,” replied 1366 1, 3| to whom a good deal of familiarity is allowed, but who in return 1367 1, 11| the middle of a kind of fan made of the spines of palm-trees, 1368 1, 17| Joam Garral as long as he fancied he was unobserved.~No! he 1369 1, 16| ants and poisonous serpent fangs which they mix with it.~“ 1370 1, 5| rivers are but tiny ripples fanned up by the breeze.”~“A river 1371 1, 10| the mangrove trees, whose fantastic roots buttress them to the 1372 1, 5| whose origin is lost in the far-distant past! It is one of the largest 1373 1, 11| reduced to the ordinary meager fare of his parish. They tried 1374 2, 4| and engaged in managing a farming establishment of considerable 1375 2, 20| And so was the village of Faro and its celebrated river 1376 1, 18| some wild beast trying to fascinate his prey before he sprang 1377 1, 11| redoubtable woman whose look fascinates and drages beneath the waters 1378 2, 20| of Minha, who looked most fascinating in her bride’s costume, 1379 1, 16| feminine wonderment too, in the fashions of the fair Egans, not the 1380 1, 20| death of the judge may be fatal to me, but that is no reason 1381 1, 11| wife, his children, his father-in-law, and his brother-in-law. 1382 1, 2| and at this game Torres fatigued himself without result.~“ 1383 2, 1| discovered by the Spaniard Favella in 1645, rises in the very 1384 1, 6| invariable reply.~Minha and her favorite for their part took care 1385 1, 12| They will struggle for my favors. I could remain here for 1386 1, 7| the cat,” a kind of light fawn-colored sparrow-hawk. If he proudly 1387 1, 3| Brazilian merchants and fazenders showed itself in his features, 1388 1, 2| time!”~And then, without fearing to be seen, he came out 1389 1, 3| well under control. The fearlessness of his look denoted a deep-rooted 1390 2, 10| he could see nothing, so feeble was the light; but this 1391 2, 10| what to do. If your head feels as if in a vice, and your 1392 1, 6| So every year Joam Garral felled some hundreds of trees from 1393 1, 6| of the horizon, that the felling of this half-mile of forest 1394 1, 3| scorned their indigenous fellow-citizens, wore only a simple shirt, 1395 1, 16| cause of wonderment, quite feminine wonderment too, in the fashions 1396 1, 6| clothing of creepers, cacti, ferns, mosses, and bromelias. 1397 1, 17| protuberances, but by their natural ferocity, which increases with age. 1398 1, 1| lofty boughs of that “pao ferro,” or iron wood, with its 1399 1, 3| source of profit in these fertile countries, where a herd 1400 1, 9| worth, full of evangelical fervor, charitable and good, and 1401 1, 7| standing alone. The long festoon of the liana curled round 1402 1, 3| attached to each other by festoons of lianas, which here and 1403 1, 6| clearing, to which Benito fetched him rather oftener than 1404 2, 19| 251343251 3432513 432 etnpmv ffov pd pajx hy ynojyggay meqynfu 1405 2, 19| 3432 513 4325 1343251 mvly fgsu zmqiz tlb qgyu gsqe uvb 1406 1, 7| tortoise, was tied on with a fiber.~“To hang himself! to hang 1407 1, 12| the palms, whose supple fibers are used in the fabrication 1408 2, 14| by his family nor by the fickle population of Manaos, who 1409 2, 4| not a bad man. Nervous, fidgety, talkative, keen, crafty, 1410 2, 8| among them, limited the field of their researches to the 1411 1, 10| slopes of Cotopaxi, hurried fiercely to mingle itself with the 1412 1, 9| peaceable tribes, and the fiercest of them have retired before 1413 1, 11| the trumpeter, the little fifer, the urtiquis, the harlequin, 1414 1, 7| and of which Brazil had fifty-four varieties; here round the 1415 2, 13| fifty-eight, two hundred and fifty-ninth, and two hundred and sixtieth 1416 2, 4| Joam Dacosta.”~“Your age?”~“Fifty-two.”~“Where do you live?”~“ 1417 1, 3| beautiful trees—mimosas, fig-sycamores, bauhinias, and paullinias, 1418 2, 6| effort wished to insist on fighting him instead of Benito.~“ 1419 2, 14| it was not his name that figured here.~The same observation 1420 2, 13| CHAPTER XIII~IS IT A MATTER OF FIGURES?~IT WAS SEVEN o’clock in 1421 2, 12| the signs of the alphabet figuring among them. After all, it 1422 1, 6| round the trunk like the filatures of a twisted column, whose 1423 2, 9| the place of the air which fills them, and the body sinks 1424 2, 16| sea, in the Old World, a final retreat in which to end 1425 2, 12| pinch so as to develop the finesse and sagacity of his mind. 1426 1, 1| had already laid his tawny finger on the sheet of good stout 1427 1, 15| commences with sunset and finishes with the dawn.~At this moment 1428 1, 4| And Joam sat down without finishing his thoughts. By an effort 1429 1, 2| but Torres possessed no firearm. His sword-knife and hoe 1430 1, 1| pursuit of the blacks. No firearms—neither gun nor revolver. 1431 1, 6| in a bouquet of vegetable fireworks made up of the yellow, purple, 1432 1, 9| the district, which are of first-class quality; but the guns of 1433 2, 14| would absorb the life of a first-rate calculator. But if he could 1434 1, 12| flowers, to or three long fish-bones, and some fine bone or copper 1435 1, 15| in palisaded pools like fish-pools, or attaching them to a 1436 1, 15| they prefer it, intrepid fishers for the manatee.~On the 1437 1, 12| fabrication of hammocks and fishing-nets, and are the cause of some 1438 2, 9| height of the neck, there is fitted a collar of copper, on which 1439 1, 16| ancestors.~At nightfall a five-holed flute was heard behind the 1440 1, 5| the Amazon is free for five-sixths of its length.~And from 1441 2, 19| l4msyuhqpz drrgcroh e pqxu fivv rpl ph onthvddqf~employé 1442 1, 20| small table, and he looked fixedly at his accuser without bending 1443 1, 1| it is this sentence which fixes the price. It sums up the 1444 1, 18| have been surprised at the fixity of his look which met that 1445 1, 12| river, although in them a flagstaff carrying the Brazilian colors 1446 1, 1| a match and applied the flame to a piece of that stick 1447 2, 14| replied the judge, whose flaming eyes made the negro quake 1448 1, 18| motionless on one leg, solemn flamingoes who from a distance looked 1449 2, 20| with their somber green flanked by the yellow thatch or 1450 1, 2| spite of himself, there flashed across him the thought of 1451 1, 14| Omaguas, whose name means “flat-heads,” and is derived from the 1452 1, 7| to long sticks of coral flecked with green. Here round “ 1453 2, 8| was no place for them to flee to. Here it is quite different. 1454 1, 8| monkey furs of exquisite fleeciness. Light curtains of the russet 1455 1, 5| the Amazon to Napo, with a fleet of forty-seven pirogues.~ 1456 1, 7| white ipomas, under the fleshy stems of the vanilla, and 1457 1, 20| crimes, and the man never flinched.~At length, crossing his 1458 1, 8| our modern looms. On the floors of the rooms were jaguar 1459 1, 6| specimens of the Amazonian flora there fell many “quatibos” 1460 2, 1| imposing toilets, with flounced dressed and headgear of 1461 2, 10| impregnated with a luminous fluid, and Benito was able to 1462 1, 18| whole world of aquatic birds fluttered between the higher clusters, 1463 1, 2| is known in Brazil as a “foca,” and which hunters do not 1464 2, 6| pressed back by his implacable foe, who was more determined 1465 1, 11| trumpets; and red macaws, who fold their wings in the foliage 1466 1, 1| and then, after carefully folding it, put it away into a little 1467 1, 12| credulity as the simple folk of the civilized world.~ 1468 1, 16| know what I think, I made a fool of myself!”~“Quite so! and 1469 1, 3| him a partner on the same footing as himself, and with equal 1470 1, 2| the trees—a sound of light footsteps, as though some visitor 1471 1, 7| confess, however, that in forbidding him to use his gun Minha 1472 2, 13| judge, “and you will be forced to give in to the evidence.”~ 1473 1, 6| which Indians worked from a forecastle.~But neither of these vessels 1474 2, 20| then, our friends beheld a foreground of hills, whose undulations 1475 1, 10| heads, tattooed cheeks and foreheads, carrying plates of metal 1476 2, 4| all the surroundings of forensic strife. Was it impudent 1477 2, 9| circumstances which we cannot foresee, he will not reappear before 1478 2, 3| information given by Torres, which forestalled and perhaps would ruin his 1479 1, 7| species in a square mile. A forester could easily see that no 1480 1, 9| for preserved meats, not forgetting a whole flock of sheep, 1481 2, 14| combinations of numbers, in forging a key to force this lock!~ 1482 1, 8| encircling every projection, forking, uniting, it everywhere 1483 2, 4| Unfortunately for the fazender, such formalities were no longer necessary; 1484 2, 11| whose coolness did not forsake him. “It is necessary that 1485 1, 20| Joam, whose coolness never forsook him.~“A scoundrel and a 1486 2, 4| conscience was strongly fortified and was not easily affected 1487 1, 12| this trade than that of fortifying the Island of the Ronde, 1488 1, 6| blacks, and during the first fortnight in May they did wonders. 1489 2, 1| hill, on which, in 1669, a fortress, which has since been demolished, 1490 1, 19| fact that at Tijuco sudden fortunes are realized enough to turn 1491 1, 3| his wife.~Yaquita was now forty-four. In that tropical country 1492 1, 19| lots are put into sacks and forwarded to Rio de Janeiro; but as 1493 1, 2| is as ferocious as he is foul, he delights in company, 1494 1, 12| sixteen years after the foundation of the Portugo-Brazilian 1495 2, 20| country doctor.~Naturally the Fragosos did not hesitate to go back 1496 1, 11| The traditional soup of fragrant herbs; cake, so often made 1497 1, 15| Brazilian pataque, or about a franc, has to be paid.~On the 1498 1, 10| towns,” replied Manoel. “Frankly, I don’t care much for that 1499 1, 13| There was an entire want of frankness in the eyes, whose look 1500 2, 20| received with absolutely frantic applause. He gave his arm 1501 1, 5| 1967 the Brazilian engineer Franz Keller-Linzenger, and lastly,