Travels in South America From the Pacific Ocean to the Atlantic Ocean, Vol. 2 (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from Travels in South America From the Pacific Ocean to the Atlantic Ocean, Vol. 2 First relations with the Conibo Indians. - The mosquito region. - The author accumulates a number of interjections in order to give the reader an idea of the torments he endures. - Manufacture of mosquito-curtains under difficulties. - Tumbuya and its banana-trees. - How the members of the Franco-Peruvian expedition, and the author of these lines with them, were taken for so many devils, by the natives of the country. - The small-pox among savage nations. - Massacre of turtles. - A bad night. - A Conibo bouillon composed of green bananas and turtles´ eggs. - The chief of the Franco-Peruvian expedition, taking counsel of his vanity, buys an Impetiniri slave for the sum of eighteen ponre. (loncerning the river Pachitea, its sources and its affluents. - A projected mission at Santa Rita. - The two chiefs of the expedition, for the last time, wash their dirty linen at home. - A singular proposition. - How the author compares himself to Hippocrates refusing the presents of Artaxerxes. - Relative situations. - Pleasures and troubles of a journey. - Theory of the mosquito-curtain. - A man-hunt among the Renio Indians of the river Apujau. - Dissertation on the past history and present state of the Conibo Indians. - Landscapes and animals. - The slipping down of the shores of the Ucayali. - The author has to brave a danger which will make more than one of his fair readers, with a sensitive nature, tremble for him. - Auto-da-fe of peccaries. - Arrival among the Sipibo Indians. - A ragout of turtles fresh from the egg. - The Sierra of Cuntamana and its ramifications. - Encounter of two Christians on a certain shore. - A mill to crush sugar-canes. - A few remarks on the past history of the Sipibos. - Arrival among the Sch6tibo Indians. - The shore of the Sarah-Qheni-Sara-Tacu. - Sudden and magnificent transformation of the Count de la Blanche-Epine. - Effect which may be produced by a black dress in the midst of a virgin landscape. - The Malgache courier. - Arrival of the converts of Sarayacu. - Explanations by torchlight. - A Yankee mechanician. - Departure of visitors. - The members of the united commission sleep pell-mell while awaiting the morrow. It was with real pleasure that we parted with our friends the Chontaquiros, who, for ten days, had kept us in tutelage, and treated us with no more ceremony than so many bales of merchandise. Having completed our arrangements with the Conibos, we quitted Paruitcha, and headed for the north. Two hours´ rowing sufficed to establish us on more intimate relations with our new acquaintances. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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