Through the Brazilian WildernessC. Scribner's Sons, 1919 - 410 strani |
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Africa ahead Amazon animals ants Aripuanan bank beast birds bite boat branches Brazil Brazilian Cáceres camaradas camp Canadian canoe canoes capybaras Caripe caymans Cherrie and Miller Colonel Rondon coloration Corumbá couple course dangerous deer doctor dogs dugouts Dúvida expedition exploration Father Zahm feet Fiala fish forest ground Gy-Paraná hammocks head horses Indian insects jabiru jaguar jararaca Juruena Kermit Kermit Roosevelt killed kilometres kind land Lauro Müller loads Lyra Madeira mammals Manaos marsh Matto Grosso miles monkey morning mosquitoes mouth mules mussurama native naturalists nearly nests Nhambiquaras night paddlers palms Paraguay Parecís party peccaries piranhas poisonous portage puma rain rapids rifle river Roosevelt rubber-men shot snakes South America species stingless bees stood Tapajos tapir tents tion trail trees trip tropical Vital Brazil wild wilderness women woods yards
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Stran 243 - ON February 27, 1914, shortly after midday, we started down the River of Doubt into the unknown. We were quite uncertain whether after a week we should find ourselves in the Gy-Parana, or after six weeks in the Madeira, or after three months we knew not where.
Stran 277 - Rondon took a good deal of pains in getting a big post set up at the entry of the smaller river into the Duvida. Then he summoned me, and all the others, to attend the ceremony of its erection. We found the camaradas drawn up in line, and the colonel preparing to read aloud "the orders of the day." To the post was nailed a board with "Rio Kermit...
Stran 320 - Half of the camaradas had been down with fever and were much weakened; only a few of them retained their original physical and moral strength. Cherrie and Kermit had recovered; but both Kermit and Lyra still had bad sores on their legs, from the bruises received in the water work. I was in worse shape. The after effects of the fever still hung on ; and the leg which had been hurt while working in the rapids with the sunken canoe had taken a turn for the bad and developed an abscess. The good doctor,...
Stran 145 - beneficent Nature ' could not deceive even the least wise being if he once saw for himself the iron cruelty of life in the tropics.
Stran 146 - nature" — in common parlance a wholly inaccurate term, by the way, especially when used as if to express a single entity — is entirely ruthless, no less so as regards types than as regards individuals, and entirely indifferent to good or 152 Through the Brazilian Wilderness evil, and works out her ends or no ends with utter disregard of pain and woe.
Stran 33 - ... and in daytime the deck was pleasant under the awnings. It was hot, of course, but we were dressed suitably in our exploring and hunting clothes and did not mind the heat. The river was low, for there had been dry weather for some weeks — judging from the vague and contradictory information I received there is much elasticity to the terms wet season and dry season at this part of the Paraguay. Under the brilliant sky we steamed steadily up the mighty river; the sunset was glorious as we leaned...
Stran 268 - ... of a small party of the carnivorous foraging ants; now, grasping a branch as I stumbled, I shook down a shower of fire-ants; and among all these my attention was particularly arrested by the bite of one of the giant ants, which stung like a hornet, so that I felt it for three hours. The camaradas generally went barefoot or only wore sandals; and their ankles and feet were swollen and inflamed from the bites of the boroshudas and ants, some being actually incapacitated from work. All of us suffered...
Stran 321 - ... jeopardize the welfare of his associates by any delay caused by a weakness or ailment of his. It is his duty to go forward, if necessary on all fours, until he drops. Fortunately, I was put to no such test. I remained in good shape until we had passed the last of the rapids of the chasms. When my serious trouble came we had only canoe-riding ahead of us. It is not ideal for a sick man to spend the hottest hours of the day stretched on the boxes in the bottom of a small open dugout, under the...
Stran 53 - They are sometimes dangerous to man and to his domestic animals, and are always destructive to fish ; and it is good to shoot them ; I killed half a dozen, and missed nearly as many more — a throbbing boat does not improve one's aim. We passed forests of palms that extended for leagues, and vast marshy meadows, where storks, herons, and ibis were gathered, with flocks of cormorants and darters on the sand-bars, and stilts, skimmers, and clouds of beautiful swaying terns in the foreground. About...
Stran 269 - Then the ground on either hand rose into bowlderstrewn, forest-clad hills and the roar of broken water announced that once more our course was checked by dangerous rapids. Round a bend we came on them; a wide descent of white water, with an island in the middle, at the upper edge. Here grave misfortune befell us, and graver misfortune was narrowly escaped. Kermit, as usual, was leading in his canoe. It was the smallest and least seaworthy of all. He had in it little except a week's supply of our...