Jules Verne Eight hundred leagues on the Amazon Concordances (Hapax - words occurring once) |
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2503 1, 12| lamps and ornamented glass panels, nor a huge parasol, no 2504 2, 10| perfectly motionless!~A sharp pang shot through Benito. His 2505 1, 7| and others ornamented with panicles of whitish berries.~But 2506 1, 11| seemed to change like the panoramas of the theaters which unroll 2507 1, 5| important tributary—the Panta. It is called the Marañon 2508 1, 7| himself, neither did any panthers, leopards, jaguars, guepars, 2509 1, 1| the lofty boughs of that “pao ferro,” or iron wood, with 2510 1, 7| the tree of the tropics, par excellence, which, according 2511 2, 20| that is the Sierra de Paracuarta, which curves in a half-circle 2512 1, 7| green parrots and clamorous parakeets, which seemed to be the 2513 1, 18| discharges successively repeated paralyze the most robust of men or 2514 1, 15| might have taken the Ahuaty Parana, a sort of natural canal, 2515 1, 15| passed before the village of Parani-Tapera, the raft was anchored at 2516 2, 12| eventually read the pirate’s parchment note with ease.~The magistrate 2517 1, 3| for the love which their parents bore them.~Benito was now 2518 2, 1| near the legendary lake of Parima—which would seem to be merely 2519 1, 16| pretentiously showed off their Parisian toilettes, a little out 2520 1, 5| formed by the junction of the Paro and the Apurimac—an assertion 2521 2, 15| gasped Benito, and in a paroxysm of despair he took a knife 2522 2, 6| came from Benito. Torres parried it. They then jumped back, 2523 2, 15| milligrammes the judge had parted with to excite the network 2524 1, 3| without a certain amount of partiality.~This sketch of the Garral 2525 1, 12| although France and Holland partially established themselves there, 2526 2, 5| allowing you to relate the particulars of your past life and to 2527 2, 7| precious for Torres to dream of parting with it. He was bound to 2528 1, 12| whims of their coquettish partners.~Among the natives it was 2529 2, 8| Indians. During this time they partook of some refreshment, and 2530 1, 11| reeds; “niambus,” a kind of partridge, whose song is composed 2531 1, 10| not to mention a dozen partridges, enriched the larder after 2532 2, 19| huit-cent vingt-six, n’est donc pas Joam Dacosta, 5134 3251 2533 1, 17| stopped at the village of Pasquero to pass the night.~The sun 2534 1, 5| curves to the eastward, and passes through the intermediary 2535 1, 3| scarlet-flowered bromelias and passion-flowers.~At a distance, behind huge 2536 1, 3| subject of medicine. He had a passionate taste for that noble profession, 2537 2, 12| pretty strong in such mental pastimes. On this occasion he sought 2538 1, 15| coming from the east of the Pasto Mountains to the northeast 2539 1, 5| have the Marona and the Pastuca; and the Guallaga comes 2540 1, 16| the barriers of immense pasture grounds, in which the whole 2541 1, 15| little turtle a Brazilian pataque, or about a franc, has to 2542 2, 1| coats, chimney-pot hats, patent-leather boots, highly-colored gloves, 2543 1, 5| the honor of its glorious paternity.~To-day, however, there 2544 1, 2| disappeared, the monkey patiently waited until he came into 2545 1, 7| with their scaly shells of patterns of mosaic.~And truly Benito 2546 1, 3| fig-sycamores, bauhinias, and paullinias, whose trunks were invisible 2547 1, 9| the double almond of the “paulliniasorbilis,” a genuine tablet of chocolate 2548 2, 7| taken out of the monkey’s paw?”~“Yes!” yes!” answered 2549 2, 19| 3432513 432 etnpmv ffov pd pajx hy ynojyggay meqynfu 2550 1, 3| and I shall not die in peace unless by this union I know 2551 1, 9| along the river belong to peaceable tribes, and the fiercest 2552 1, 7| so naturally that Lina’s peals of laughter redoubled.~A 2553 1, 6| sugar-canes, arrowroot, maize, and peanuts would occupy the ground 2554 1, 14| flow through districts of peat, coal, and anthracite; or 2555 2, 13| consecutive h’s. At first this peculiarity had not struck the magistrate.~“ 2556 1, 18| admiring themselves in the pellucid water!”~“And the flowers 2557 2, 15| nothing that might lead to the penetration of the mystery—not even 2558 2, 4| form part of our modern penitentiary system: but an old monk’ 2559 2, 17| his memoir, which he had penned with so much sincerity, 2560 2, 19| helped to commit the crime.~Penniless, and unable to enter Tijuco 2561 1, 9| better built and better peopled village than many of those 2562 1, 11| asked Minha.~“I begin to perceive that they teach us nothing,” 2563 2, 14| miracle a man attempted to perform! The man was Jarriquez, 2564 2, 10| only being hindered from performing his functions under such 2565 1, 1| to see the cipher which permits him to read them, he—well, 2566 2, 19| under which it had been perpetrated!~By means of the number 2567 2, 14| consumed him, and kept him in a perpetual heat. His whole house trembled; 2568 2, 4| legs so short, and his feet perpetually crossing and recrossing, 2569 1, 15| could be distinguished the “perros voladors,” somber brown 2570 1, 12| Spanish Figaros or French perruqiers. At the bottom the same 2571 1, 9| justly call it so?—another personage was its spiritual director; 2572 1, 1| their true names to true personages; but before trying to understand 2573 2, 15| met him on the frontier, personally contributed to bringing 2574 2, 15| could compromise, have been persuaded to speak, had money been 2575 1, 11| daughter did their utmost in persuasion. But the Franciscan had 2576 1, 14| the color of sepia which pervades the whole.”~“Good!” exclaimed 2577 1, 14| church, dedicated to St. Peter and St. Paul, has only a 2578 2, 19| and Lina were praised and petted by all the family, and by 2579 1, 16| their headgear and flying petticoats, which are foreign to their 2580 1, 1| leaves belong to that old “petun” introduced into France 2581 2, 14| who excitedly followed the phases of this dramatic affair.~ 2582 1, 18| scattered in the foliage, and phenicopters of every color, enlivened 2583 2, 12| rym and puy, and jox, and phetoz, and jyggay, and mv, and 2584 1, 1| entered the minds of a few philanthropists, and more than a century 2585 2, 15| that a certain quantity of phosphorus is expended in the work 2586 2, 15| up, worn out mentally and physically, had neither strength to 2587 2, 4| of him, like those of a pianist practicing on the mute; 2588 1, 14| the scales of the “coco de piassaba.” This trade is here extensively 2589 1, 3| could earn from five to six piastres a day, and could hope to 2590 1, 2| On his bearded face was pictured a grin, which showed his 2591 1, 3| half-breeds.~The village is most picturesquely grouped on a kind of esplanade, 2592 2, 4| judges wig of the past; his piercing gimlet-like eyes, with their 2593 1, 7| peccaries, a sort of wild pig highly appreciated by lovers 2594 1, 12| esplanade which carries the pigmy fort. The house of the commandant 2595 1, 9| jangada there was a huge pile of this useful product destined 2596 1, 8| mosquito curtains, had their pillows, mattresses, and bolsters 2597 1, 6| Para in charge of capable pilots who were thoroughly acquainted 2598 1, 14| of islands were breasted—Pimaicaira, Caturia, Chico, Motachina; 2599 2, 1| two of its affluents, the Pimichin and the Cassiquary.~After 2600 2, 12| the table. He took a good pinch so as to develop the finesse 2601 1, 11| which so frequently make a pincushion of the calves of the bather 2602 1, 15| pointed snouts and four pinions of the lamantins.~Inexperienced 2603 2, 1| highly-colored gloves, and diamond pins in their necktie bows; and 2604 1, 9| capture, but good to eat; “piranhas,” or devil-fish, striped 2605 1, 9| which it is often compared; “pirarucus” with red scales, as large 2606 2, 12| it to eventually read the pirate’s parchment note with ease.~ 2607 2, 1| was thrown up against the pirates of the Amazon, some idea 2608 1, 16| dwarf palm from which the pith has been extracted.~Joam 2609 2, 15| was one of the most to be pitied. By a natural association 2610 2, 5| that Judge Jarriquez was pitilessly incredulous. But they should 2611 1, 5| lieutenant of one of the brothers Pizarro, descended the Rio Negro, 2612 1, 11| kamichis,” with their plaintive melody; kingfishers, whose 2613 1, 4| half-reclining on a couch of plaited bamboos, when Yaquita, a 2614 1, 8| get out of them joists and planking without the aid of any machinery 2615 1, 7| on the bromelias, grass plantains, orchids, cacti, and in 2616 1, 17| applied to a caoutchouc plantation, the caoutchouc being extracted 2617 1, 12| of a few flowers, but he plaster it on like cement!~And as 2618 2, 7| under his poncho, like a plate of metal——”~“That was the 2619 2, 17| he relegated the task of pleading for him.~This evening, then, 2620 1, 10| occasion to participate in the pleasures of the chase. If, however, 2621 1, 18| glass of port without having pledged anybody. “All here have 2622 2, 10| diameter.~Gymnotuses are plentiful enough both in the Amazon 2623 1, 6| destined to be cleared, plowed, planted, and sown, and 2624 1, 7| insects were they tempted to pluck as though they had been 2625 1, 7| in the air the long white plumes of his tail, he in his turn 2626 1, 11| according as this serpent plunges in or quites them, so gigantic 2627 1, 14| rapid transit. Boats did not ply regularly, and in most cases 2628 1, 5| direct with Liverpool, are plying on the river from its mouth 2629 1, 7| is on his arm, good-by to poetry!”~“Then be a poet now,” 2630 1, 16| point like a needle, and poisoned with “curare.”~Curare, or “ 2631 1, 16| Quite so, and he is also poking fun at his mother,” added 2632 1, 2| glinted on the case, the polished metal of which lighted up 2633 1, 1| For certain reasons of political economy the hour of general 2634 1, 5| tentacles of some gigantic polyp, two hundred tributaries, 2635 1, 12| I am not stingy with the pomade!”~No, he was not stingy 2636 2, 20| October, that with great pomp the marriages were celebrated.~ 2637 1, 5| waters the ocean does not pond back without raising in 2638 2, 8| short, the currents are ponded back, and they cannot possibly 2639 2, 17| Manaos. Joam Dacosta was pondering over his whole career. He 2640 1, 15| keeping them in palisaded pools like fish-pools, or attaching 2641 1, 6| burden, a kind of junk with a poop behind and a cabin down 2642 2, 1| heart of the province of Popayan, on the flanks of the mountains 2643 2, 2| they not to fear that some popular movement might be directed 2644 1, 1| Nicot, to whom we owe the popularization of the most productive and 2645 1, 15| superior even to that of pork, and the oil furnished by 2646 2, 20| with a forest of reeds. Porto de Mos, Boa Vista, and Gurupa, 2647 2, 16| vessel leaving one of its ports; and if the ship were bound 2648 1, 12| after the foundation of the Portugo-Brazilian Empire, that Brazil proclaimed 2649 1, 18| stream.~Ibises half-lollingly posed on some old trunk, and gray 2650 1, 17| I am aafraid, though no positive fact enables me to explain 2651 1, 17| the Amazon, and seems to possess a navigable course, even 2652 2, 19| secret of which he was the possessor, and how he tried to make 2653 2, 1| house, the treasury, the post-office, and the custom-house, and, 2654 1, 2| manchetta, he put himself into a posture of defense.~The monkey, 2655 1, 9| radish, grows in clumps like potatoes. If it is not poisonous 2656 1, 17| seringueiras; below the wound small pots are attached, which twenty-four 2657 1, 11| of meat and tomato yelly; poultry with rice, swimming in a 2658 2, 11| the surface of the stream, pounced on the floating body. They 2659 1, 9| of the cargo, for every pound of it was worth from three 2660 1, 9| caoutchouc, each of about thirty pounds, composed the most precious 2661 1, 15| feet across, in which it pours its blackish waters, coming 2662 1, 2| the truth, anger at his powerlessness had deprived him of his 2663 2, 19| 251343251 l4msyuhqpz drrgcroh e pqxu fivv rpl ph onthvddqf~employé 2664 2, 16| that neither of them was practicable. One, however, did offer 2665 1, 6| districts of South America, are practically inexhaustible.~Joam Garral 2666 2, 4| like those of a pianist practicing on the mute; and his body 2667 1, 10| bed of the river with its prairies and its trees? Only——”~“ 2668 2, 19| that Fragoso and Lina were praised and petted by all the family, 2669 1, 4| hesitate in the face of so praiseworthy a desire? Why, on the other 2670 2, 20| was passed, then that of Pravnha de Onteiro, then the mouth 2671 1, 9| furnish its daily quota; prawns, which ought rather to be 2672 1, 17| raft?”~“Be calm, Benito, I pray you!”~“Manoel!” continued 2673 1, 20| a stormy discussion and prayers and tears. He had before 2674 2, 16| On his part, and as if by pre-arrangement, Manoel had tried to reassure 2675 1, 1| on whom the fatigues of a precarious existence seemed, thanks 2676 1, 6| the few weeks that were to precede his departure had been well 2677 2, 13| meaning by following the precepts of our immortal analyst, 2678 1, 19| away and thrown over some precipice, for his body was never 2679 1, 5| picturesque and unequal precipices. No falls are met with until 2680 2, 6| suddenly failing him, he was precipitated down the cliff. As a last 2681 2, 20| Amazon to divide before precipitating its torrents of water into 2682 1, 13| to go down the river?”~“Precisely.”~“Into Para?”~“No, only 2683 1, 17| meetings were in pursuance of a preconceived plan. When I see the shifty, 2684 2, 4| The letter I wrote to your predecessor, Judge Ribeiro, the letter 2685 1, 15| to say that, like their predecessors, they do nor form separate 2686 1, 2| monkey, to hook on with his prehensile tail to the first branches, 2687 1, 2| a “guariba.”~?Of all the prehensile-tailed monkeys which haunt the 2688 1, 2| possesses a perfect power of prehension.~The guariba noiselessly 2689 1, 1| to sleep without certain preliminaries. HE was in the habit of 2690 1, 3| left her. When Manoel’s preliminary studies were finished, he 2691 1, 3| untouched where others had prematurely succumbed. His hair, which 2692 2, 3| convicted of aggravated and premeditated murder, did not even obtain 2693 2, 16| Manoel. “However, we must prepare for everything; and in case 2694 2, 4| Jarriques, who was naturally prepossessed against all criminals, did 2695 1, 11| courage, as you will see presently; she never hesitated, and 2696 1, 11| not without taking a few presents, which would be well received 2697 1, 15| their eggs, and whom they preserve alive, keeping them in palisaded 2698 1, 9| general consumption.~As for preserved meats, not forgetting a 2699 2, 7| lose our time.”~“And time presses!” added Fragoso.~“Besides,” 2700 2, 17| hypothesis that Joam Dacosta presumed to trust. No; he reckoned 2701 1, 9| principally of a quantity of the “presunto” hams of the district, which 2702 2, 8| can do better. We cannot pretend to have entirely explored 2703 1, 16| and merchants o the town pretentiously showed off their Parisian 2704 2, 1| characteristic of the tone of thought prevalent in these parts—God-the-Father 2705 1, 11| There were the gigantic “pria-rucus,” ten and twelve feet long, 2706 1, 7| armed with their sharp prickles, orchids with rosy flowers 2707 1, 1| the hieroglyphics.~On what principle had these letters been arranged? 2708 1, 16| journey. At eight o’clock the priogue regained the mooring-place 2709 1, 7| imposed on him a genuine privation. There was no lack of game 2710 2, 10| side where he had begun to probe the vegetation. This was 2711 2, 10| With his iron-shod spear he probed the plants and rubbish accumulated 2712 2, 12| combinations, the solver of amusing problems, the answerer of charades, 2713 1, 19| a cheerful life with the proceeds of the robbery which he 2714 2, 19| whom so many trials had procured them at Manaos, need hardly 2715 1, 8| whatever, and, endowed with prodigious natural ability, do all 2716 1, 5| most active of the world’s producers. According to him, “a soft 2717 1, 5| constantly observable, and produces an evaporation, thanks to 2718 1, 1| popularization of the most productive and widespread of the solanaceae.~ 2719 1, 3| the direction of excellent professors, he acquired the elements 2720 1, 1| calling continued sufficiently profitable, the captains of the woods 2721 1, 15| indoors. They had to occupy profitably these hours of leisure. 2722 2, 2| diagonally. Araujo, cleverly profiting by the bendings of the current, 2723 2, 16| they discussed not only the projected escape, but the measures 2724 1, 8| angle, encircling every projection, forking, uniting, it everywhere 2725 2, 2| current, which were due to the projections of the banks, and assisted 2726 1, 10| discussing their future projects just as they had walked 2727 2, 10| the eddy produced by the prolongation of one of the spurs running 2728 2, 1| stroll on to the fashionable promenade from the public buildings 2729 2, 9| consequently more likely to promptly reappear. Manoel then was 2730 2, 12| to form a word—I mean a pronounceable word, whose number of consonants 2731 2, 12| not wanted in any human pronunciation. Most assuredly it will 2732 2, 10| with singular electrical properties, and is apt to produce very 2733 1, 6| raft was to be of unusual proportions. It would be necessary to 2734 2, 6| Joam Dacosta declined my propositions! He refused to admit me 2735 1, 14| the questions so curiously propounded by Torres.~The commandant 2736 1, 3| opens, was received by the proprietor of the fazenda.~This Portuguese, 2737 2, 5| grounded on the dignity, propriety, and honesty of the whole 2738 1, 9| means of long boathooks or props thrust against the bed of 2739 2, 20| bet with the bar of the prororoca, that terrible eddy which, 2740 2, 2| miles from Manaos?”~The pros and cons of the question 2741 2, 3| at the time he was being prosecuted for the murder in the diamond 2742 2, 3| and perhaps would ruin his prospects, he intrusted to an Indian 2743 2, 15| which had struck him without prostrating him had been the death of 2744 2, 5| accustomed to the invariable protestations of the culprits who came 2745 1, 7| beef, and above all for the protuberance on the nape of the neck, 2746 1, 17| is scattered over their protuberances, but by their natural ferocity, 2747 1, 3| the look of a Puritan. The proverbial honesty of the Brazilian 2748 1, 9| since it was necessary to provide against their aggressions. 2749 2, 9| what would seem to be a Providential circumstance that may be 2750 1, 7| civilization,” the great provider of the inhabitant of the 2751 1, 14| if addressed, but never provoking a reply.~If he appeared 2752 2, 6| recognized him, why yu were prowling about our fazenda in the 2753 2, 14| is it, sir?” asked Bobo, prudently waiting on the threshold.~“ 2754 1, 2| concert of voices, so like the psalm-singing of some church choir. But 2755 2, 2| his past life has been publicly proclaimed. Minha is a convict’ 2756 1, 15| of the harpoon. In a few pulls the cord brought him alongside 2757 2, 11| endeavored to recover the heart’s pulsation.~“It beats! It beats!” he 2758 2, 19| cryptological ones, he divided and punctuated them, and then read it out 2759 2, 12| was a complete absence of punctuation. This fact could but render 2760 1, 19| blame!”~“And the first to be punished, Miss Lina; for I did not 2761 2, 17| I fled from well-merited punishment. Yes, they had reason to 2762 1, 1| box which he used for a purse. This box was about as big 2763 1, 17| that these meetings were in pursuance of a preconceived plan. 2764 2, 16| between himself and his pursuers?~On consideration of these 2765 1, 3| a merchant in P:ara, was pursuing his studies in the same 2766 2, 17| flew open with a violent push from without.~Joam started 2767 2, 12| Close by here is rym and puy, and jox, and phetoz, and 2768 1, 2| might have to deal. Panting, puzzled, his ears on the stretch, 2769 2, 4| above all things for Chinese puzzles, enigmas, charades, rebuses, 2770 1, 7| legions of lampyrons or pyrophorus coleopters, valagumas with 2771 2, 19| pajx hy ynojyggay meqynfu q1n~huit-cent vingt-six, n’est 2772 2, 14| 834~phy jsl ydd qfd~and this gave a result as 2773 2, 19| 1343251 mvly fgsu zmqiz tlb qgyu gsqe uvb nrcc edgruzb~injustement 2774 2, 12| and jyggay, and mv, and qruz. And before that we have 2775 2, 6| Visibly the scoundrel began to quail. He recoiled little by little, 2776 1, 4| caused us, and my heart quails when I think of the separation 2777 2, 14| flaming eyes made the negro quake again.~Bobo advanced.~“Bobo,” 2778 2, 6| Fragoso!”~At the irritating qualification thus accorded him by the 2779 1, 6| Amazonian flora there fell many “quatibos” whose rosy canopies towered 2780 2, 9| moment, and reached the quay at Manaos. There they offered 2781 2, 9| were repairing one of the quays on the bank of the Rio Negro. 2782 1, 12| and Rio de Janeiro! The queen’s maids of honor are not 2783 1, 19| considerable, Fragoso?” queried Lina.~“Sell it!”~“Then you 2784 2, 12| mind, started on this new quest. In this he was only imitating 2785 2, 6| fields were met with. Manoel questioned them, and one of them at 2786 1, 2| Torres woke, and with the quickness of those who are always 2787 1, 7| golden clusters of the “quiriris,” and the treepeckers or 2788 1, 11| this serpent plunges in or quites them, so gigantic is he?”~“ 2789 1, 18| in the world,” said Lina quizzingly; “and, mistress! just look 2790 1, 9| expected to furnish its daily quota; prawns, which ought rather 2791 1, 7| which are the hares and rabbits of Central America; and 2792 2, 20| of Lina, who seemed quite radiant with joy. Then followed 2793 1, 9| very much like a long black radish, grows in clumps like potatoes. 2794 1, 8| under the ridges, on the rafters of the roof, and across 2795 2, 18| succeeded to the tempest which raged within him. He dropped the 2796 1, 6| and economically used as a railway if one existed? So every 2797 1, 11| light converted into so many rainbows.~On the 16th of June the 2798 1, 12| exchange their goods—which rained into the pocket of Fragoso, 2799 1, 15| show itself in continual rains, but in frequent storms. 2800 1, 8| the north of Brazil the rainy season is in September; 2801 1, 12| the height of the syzygies raises the waters of the Amazon, 2802 2, 8| boats had pushed off these rakes were thrown in and the river 2803 1, 8| material, which consists of the ramicles of a certain palm-tree growing 2804 1, 15| carapaces as if they were rammers.~This egg-laying operation 2805 1, 6| cups with rows of chestnuts ranged within, and whose wood of 2806 1, 6| existed, either “vigilingas,” ranging from eight up to ten tons, 2807 2, 7| must be recovered! We will ransack the whole of this part of 2808 1, 1| at this date the right to ransom himself, the children which 2809 1, 5| stream. There are neither rapids nor obstacles of any sort 2810 1, 7| to the hunters for their rarity, so appreciated by the gourmands 2811 2, 4| tried and sentenced so many rascals, that a prisoner’s innocence 2812 1, 1| jingle of the rings of the rattlesnake (not an aggressive reptile, 2813 1, 6| which the sun luxuriantly rayed on to the humid soil which 2814 2, 14| dqfd~and that gave~o.vd rdv. cid.~the same meaningless 2815 2, 14| order, he obtained~s.yf rdy. cif.~And this was meaningless! 2816 2, 19| the bank, again and again re-echoed across the stream.~ 2817 1, 15| mouth of the Tunantins, and re-enters the principal stream a hundred 2818 2, 12| who had often read and re-read his “Gold Bug,” was perfectly 2819 1, 14| has changed; heads have re-taken their natural form, and 2820 1, 6| at work. His moral self reacted against his physical self, 2821 2, 19| of his character that a reaction occurred, tears of joy escaped 2822 1, 16| think, Mr. Fragoso. These readings and writings and old papers 2823 1, 4| consent, it will be the realization of my most cherished desire. 2824 1, 1| a fortune here for me to realize if I am not the greatest 2825 1, 12| edifices—for the monuments reared by the hands of Fragoso 2826 2, 15| two men are no more!”~So reasoned Fragoso. It was evident 2827 2, 16| pre-arrangement, Manoel had tried to reassure Minha by telling her that 2828 1, 2| a way that was not very reassuring for the captain of the woods.~ 2829 2, 13| more than a logogryph or a rebus!”~At these words Manoel 2830 1, 9| sherry, port, and letubal recalled names dear to the earlier 2831 1, 6| superintendent of the men, after receiving the instructions of Joam 2832 1, 17| of a hollow bamboo, and a receptacle placed on the ground at 2833 2, 14| if he could in no respect reckon on chance, was it impossible 2834 1, 1| forests of the New World. Reclining at the foot of a magnificent 2835 1, 13| who looked at him without recognizing him.~“You do not remember 2836 1, 19| showed that criminal would recoil from nothing if they could 2837 2, 19| de Janeiro, and, far from recoiling at the horrible idea of 2838 2, 17| lost in his thoughts and recollections, he sat, regardless of a 2839 1, 3| Joam Garral. In order to recompense him in proportion to his 2840 1, 15| the bed of the river to reconnoiter for a favorable spot; the 2841 2, 19| only the name of Ortega to reconstitute the number which the author 2842 2, 11| his study.~There Manoel recounted all that had passed, from 2843 2, 10| conditions in which he could recoup his strength. In certain 2844 2, 2| present. An end to useless recriminations! Let us see!” And while 2845 2, 12| logogryphs and squares, rectangular arrangements and other enigmas, 2846 1, 12| certain woods which yield a reddish dye. From this has come 2847 2, 5| cannot pay too dearly for the redemption of his honor! But this scoundrel, 2848 1, 16| with blow-tubes formed of a reed peculiar to these parts, 2849 1, 7| the thread on an electric reel, between the knots of the 2850 2, 18| than that this document had reference to the crime of which Ortega 2851 2, 3| in the diamond province referring to so serious a case. Had 2852 2, 8| moments; they felt that he was reflecting before he spoke. “Mr. Benito,” 2853 1, 11| water alive with colored reflections and spurts of spray, which 2854 1, 3| who was more serious and reflective. It was a great treat for 2855 2, 10| seemed to form a sort of reflector, and the very grains could 2856 1, 7| silk, leilu butterflies reflexed with gold and striped with 2857 1, 11| spurts of spray, which the refracted light converted into so 2858 1, 13| stopping the twisting of the refractory mouth of a Mayouma head.~“ 2859 2, 7| the jangada? Why had he refrained from speaking, except before 2860 2, 14| time!”~And then, having refreshed himself by giving his head 2861 2, 8| time they partook of some refreshment, and then they returned 2862 2, 17| and recollections, he sat, regardless of a peculiar noise on the 2863 1, 19| cavalrymen from the district regiment, and ten men on foot, complete 2864 1, 7| spite of him, and probably register a master-stroke in sporting 2865 1, 4| religious acts, and the registers of the mission were sufficient 2866 1, 7| have duly regretted had the regrets been in another world! But 2867 2, 15| it. But if, on account of regrettable circumstances, the proof 2868 1, 9| on the watch, and silence reigned over the impressionable 2869 1, 20| deprived him of all power of reinstatement.~“Dead,” repeated Torres; “ 2870 1, 5| assertion which is now generally rejected.~At its departure from Lake 2871 2, 6| possibly he was wrong in rejecting.”~At these words Manoel 2872 1, 6| former activity. His people rejoiced exceedingly at seeing him 2873 1, 6| three yards from their base, rejoin the tree some thirty feet 2874 1, 2| The occurrence I have just related to you has caused me to 2875 2, 7| handwriting of the culprit, which relates the attack in its smallest 2876 1, 8| and more especially as relating to a singular phenomenon 2877 2, 19| from all constraint, and released from all apprehension, would 2878 2, 17| of toil and honor that he relegated the task of pleading for 2879 2, 3| marriage took place, and the remainder of his life was devoted 2880 2, 17| Manoel, tearing down the remaining bars, appeared before him.~ 2881 1, 16| well matched. The Muras are remarkably clever at sending through 2882 1, 3| notwithstanding one could not help remarking about this quiet man of 2883 2, 1| Chapel of Notre Dame des Remedes, built on a knoll which 2884 1, 10| What can be the use of remembering the hundreds of names in 2885 1, 11| long pole on his shoulder, reminded one of an encampment of 2886 1, 11| turned back on its road, remounted the Amazon to the Rio Negro, 2887 2, 3| the matter. How could he remove so strong a presumption? 2888 1, 17| gave them was sufficiently remunierative, and they were highly satisfied.~ 2889 1, 16| about the market-place, the rendezvous of the fashionable, who 2890 1, 13| little vanity, that the renown of the illustrious Fragoso 2891 2, 19| finished when the air was rent with prolonged hurrahs.~ 2892 2, 2| more coolly, but not less reolutely.~“No! Manoel, no, to me 2893 1, 20| the door of the room was reopened.~Manoel came out alone; 2894 2, 9| I noticed that they were repairing one of the quays on the 2895 1, 18| Fragoso with his witty repartees.~The Padre Passanha looked 2896 1, 12| Here and there passed and repassed several soldiers on guard, 2897 2, 18| letters of the paragraph, repeating them as often as was necessary, 2898 2, 10| the Bar of Frias!~But he repelled the idea, and continued 2899 1, 1| be read.~He who had just reperused the document was but a simple “ 2900 2, 13| a time, but without any repetition, you can make three million 2901 1, 1| hard as the metal which it replaces in the weapon and utensil 2902 2, 13| 3 4 And now, Mr. Manoel, replacing each letter by the letter 2903 2, 4| Joam Dacosta,” quickly replie dJudge Jarriquez. “You protest 2904 1, 7| foliage, for the finest representations of tropical ornithology 2905 1, 2| what would have revolted a representative of humanity.~Then Torres 2906 2, 14| chose the number of contos representing the amount of the booty!”~ 2907 2, 12| on the contrary, that it represents the letter which recurs 2908 1, 4| got anxious, and almost reproached herself for raising the 2909 1, 18| these Amazonian forests reptiles from thirty to thirty-five 2910 1, 5| serves as the boundary of two republics, and sweeps majestically 2911 2, 18| life. Leave me!”~Fragoso, repulsed, would not quit the spot. 2912 1, 15| felt for him an instinctive repulsion which she was at no pains 2913 1, 3| in the various external requirements of his trade. In truth, 2914 2, 18| foreseen, it was an order requiring the immediate execution 2915 1, 8| taken the initiative in his rescue, and Lina was not insensible 2916 1, 18| Garral the dismissal of his rescuer.~“Your life is precious 2917 1, 11| according to Paul Marcoy, to resemble the tiger, whose boldness, 2918 1, 12| collection of cabins exactly resembles all the villages and hamlets 2919 1, 16| Amazon, and it serves as a reservoir for different rivers. Five 2920 1, 16| hundred inhabitants, and in it reside all those authorities which 2921 2, 1| public buildings and private residences? Men of good appearance, 2922 2, 20| immediately sent in his resignation, so as to join the family 2923 1, 4| question. Anyhow, she was resigned to what Joam should decide. 2924 1, 8| saturated with boiling resin, and thus rendered water-tight 2925 1, 17| separation of its peculiar resins, fumigate it over a fire 2926 1, 3| had learned the secret of resisting the climate’s destructive 2927 1, 8| district. Piaçaba floats, resists immersion, and is cheaply 2928 1, 3| those noble characters, resolute and just, who believe that 2929 1, 3| Garral saw it, and entered resolutely into the service of the 2930 2, 7| CHAPTER VII~RESOLUTIONS~A FEW HOURS later the whole 2931 1, 10| overcome after a good many resorts to the demijohn.~This allowed 2932 2, 10| extreme.~A deadened roar resounded through the liquid depths. 2933 1, 9| it there were on board a respectable number of frasques (each 2934 2, 17| chief of the police, after a respectful bow, retired with the warder 2935 2, 9| as there is no attempt to respire, and he is consequently 2936 1, 12| of shining copper, with resplendent lamps and ornamented glass 2937 1, 11| kingfishers, whose call responds like a signal to the last 2938 1, 20| robbery and murder!”~No response from Joam Garral, whose 2939 2, 15| himself. Such were the cruel responsibilities which his conscience laid 2940 2, 4| What was the pretext?”~“The responsibility of taking into Para a large 2941 2, 15| Benito considered himself responsible for everything—the arrest 2942 2, 20| That was to be its last resting-place, its last halt, after its 2943 1, 3| their mistresses. Quick, restless, coaxing, and lazy, she 2944 2, 14| and demanded his immediate restoration to liberty. Thus it always 2945 2, 4| impossibility to be able to restore to my wife and children 2946 2, 5| said, “all your hope now rests on the declaration which 2947 2, 6| the danger; he tried to retake the offensive and regain 2948 2, 5| you would never have been retaken. For the last time, you 2949 1, 2| the guariba to pull up and retrace his steps, and there was 2950 2, 10| respiration became less easy; the retractibility of his organs no longer 2951 2, 6| lad?” exclaimed Torres, retreating for a few steps. “I think 2952 2, 3| CHAPTER III~RETROSPECTIVE~JOAM DACOSTA had relied 2953 1, 10| presentiment that we shall all be reunited!”~The first day passed capitally; 2954 2, 5| know that he knew and could reveal the name of the true author 2955 2, 12| tattoo on his desk—a kind of reveille to arouse his dormant faculties.~“ 2956 2, 3| troubled about this unexpected revelation, but he soon recovered himself, 2957 1, 15| the river, who hold high revelry on the remains of the amphibians.~ 2958 2, 20| Discharges of musketry reverberated on all sides, and it was 2959 2, 10| like a thunder-clap, the reverberations of which rolled along the 2960 1, 1| general haziness of his reverie.~Torres commenced, then, 2961 2, 17| prisoner once more passed in review these events, which had 2962 2, 7| arrest of Joam Dacosta had revived the memory of the terrible 2963 1, 2| amused at what would have revolted a representative of humanity.~ 2964 1, 1| firearms—neither gun nor revolver. In his belt only one of 2965 1, 7| rosy-tasseled calliandras, rhipsalas encircling it like the thread 2966 1, 11| tomato yelly; poultry with rice, swimming in a sharp sauce 2967 1, 9| of the crew, but it was richly decorated, and if Joam Garral 2968 2, 4| charades, rebuses, anagrams, riddles, and such things, with which, 2969 2, 18| carrying him any further.~The rider did not even stop to raise 2970 2, 8| rolled several feet along the ridge, and even there no effect 2971 1, 8| the brackets, under the ridges, on the rafters of the roof, 2972 1, 16| Minha, “they might not be so ridiculous!”~“My dear Minha,” said 2973 1, 6| ten tons, with three masts rigged with red sails, and which 2974 1, 9| pirogues, with the necessary rigging, were carried on board, 2975 1, 8| March. Consequently the right-hand tributaries and the left-hand 2976 1, 8| one might call a “double right-hander”—that is to say, he could 2977 2, 15| That gallant man, that rigid Puritan, that austere worker, 2978 1, 7| to be put to a still more rigorous trial. The woods became 2979 1, 20| Joam Garral, and I will rigorously execute my warrant.”~Joam 2980 1, 6| up like columns of ivory ringed with brown, were wax-palms 2981 1, 5| other rivers are but tiny ripples fanned up by the breeze.”~“ 2982 2, 4| conscience which would at all risks have wrong set right? The 2983 1, 14| bear the names of Jurupari, Rita, Maracanatena, and Cururu 2984 1, 14| which hereabouts crowns the river-bank. Some of the huts are covered 2985 1, 5| the exploration of every river-road in the basin of the Amazon.~ 2986 1, 3| To the west some small rivulets, tributaries of the Nanay, 2987 2, 19| mournful procession halted. A roaring echo had repeated after 2988 1, 11| in anger, broke off the robes, and the trunk mysteriously 2989 1, 7| passed in. If it was a high rock, carpeted with verdure, 2990 1, 10| their noses pierced with a rod of palm, and the lobes of 2991 1, 7| Swift stags and graceful roebucks scampered off beneath the 2992 1, 2| time!” said Torres; “the rogue would have settled me without 2993 1, 12| oration in a tone of the most rollicking good humor. What he said 2994 1, 15| would think it was shingle rolling on the beach of the islands.”~“ 2995 2, 1| famous Manoa, a city of romance, built, it was reported, 2996 1, 11| called “duridaris,” with rose-colored stomachs and black backs 2997 1, 7| form a dragon-tree to a rosewood, then from a gigantic chestnut, 2998 1, 7| large-leaved heliconias, rosy-tasseled calliandras, rhipsalas encircling 2999 1, 1| bore witness to long and roughish wear. On his head, stuck 3000 1, 8| World.~Above this double row of trunks and beams were 3001 1, 6| are like little cups with rows of chestnuts ranged within, 3002 1, 15| been given the name of “royal beaches.” When the harvest