United States and Brazil: Expanding Frontiers, Comparing Cultures
The Amazon and Madeira rivers; sketches and descriptions from the note-book of an explorer,Table of Contents
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PREFACE
CONTENTS
List of the illustrations with short explanations page xi
Introduction page 1
CHAPTER I. FROM RIO DE JANEIRO TO THE RAPIDS OF THE MADEIRA. Rio de Janeiro.-Bahia.-Pernambuco.-Parahyba do Norte.-Ceara.-Maranhao.-Para.-The Amazon.-The Reo Negro.-Manaos.-The Lower Madeira.-The Seriguero.-The Paria de Tamandua page 29
CHAPTER II. THE RAPIDS OF THE MADEIRA AND THE MAMORE. Santo Antonio.-Theotonio.-The Caripunas Indians.-Caldeirao do Infeno.-The Written Rocks.-Salto do Girao.-An Attack.-Old Caripuna Huts.-Ribeirao.-More Written Rocks.-The Mouth of the Beni.-Exaltacion page 54
CHAPTER III. CANOE AND CAMP LIFE. The Start.-The Kitchen.-The Bast Shirts.-The Straw Hats.-Strange Dainties. Alligator-hunting.-The Camp fires.-The Camisetas.-The Mosquitoes.-The Halting-place page 85
CHAPTER IV. HUNTING AND FISHING IN THE PROVICES OF AMAZON AND MATO-GROSSO. The Pira-rucu.-The Lamantin or Peixe-boi.-The Botos.-Popular Belief regarding them.-The Minhocao and the Mae dAgua.-Different Modes of Fishing: in the Pary, with the Coco and the Timbo.-The Rays, the Piranhas, and the Candirus.-Tapir-hunting.-The Jaguar, the Wild Hog, the Capivara, the Monkeys, and the Birds page 93
CHAPTER V. THE VEGETATION OF THE BIRGIN FOREST ON THE AMAZON AND THE MADEIRA. Transformations and New Formations.-Terras Cahidas.-Orchids and Bromeliae.-Ferns.-Creepers.-Buttressed Trees.-The India-rubber, and its Preparation.-The Cacao.-Medicinal Plants.-Oils.-Resins.-Fibres.-The Urary of Curare.-The Peruvian Bark.-The Guarana.-The Coca page 108
CHAPTER VI. THE WILD INDIAN TRIBES OF THE MADEIRA VALLEY. The Muras.-The Araras.-The Mundrucus.-The Parentintins.-The Caripunas: our First Meeting with them.-Their Hunts.-Their Burial-ground.-Former Attacks on the Madeira, Javary, and Purus.-The Unknowns Footpads at the Mouth of the Mamore.-Future of these Indians.-Their Languages.-Their Religious Views.-The Pajes.-AnOld Indian Settlement page 137
CHAPTER VII. THE MOJOS INDIANS OF THE FORMER JESUIT MISSIONS IN BOLIVIAN. Founding of a Mission.-The Life there.-Strict Discipline.-Their Decay and Present State.-Bloody Episode at Santa Ana.-Consequences of the Political Storms.-Festivities and Processions.-Visit of the Excellentissimo.-The Chicha.-A Vocabulary.-The Missions on the Paranapanema and Tibagy.-Final Considerations page 170
APPENDIX. Mode of Conducting our Surveys, and their Hydrographical Hypsometrical Results.-Statistics page 20
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