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  the Great River.--Origin of the Red Man.--General Characteristics of the Amazonian Indians.--Their Languages, Costumes


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id: 19209
title: The Andes and the Amazon; Or, Across the Continent of South America
author: Orton, James
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  and finishing it where the great river appears a fresh-water ocean. Down the Amazon.--Steam on the Great River.--Loreto.--San Antonio.--Tabatinga. Life within the Great River.--Fishes.--Alligators.--Turtles.--Porpoises Life around the Great River.--Origin of the Red Man.--General Characteristics bank of the River Guayas, sixty miles from the ocean, and but a few feet The coffee-tree is about eight feet high, and has dark green leaves, Captain Lee''s little steamers to Bodegas, seventy miles up the river. Quito, though not the highest city on the globe, is two thousand feet Quito.--Primeval Inhabitants of the Andes.--Quichua Indians. The moment the Andes arose, the great continental valley of the Amazon Sea-Cows and Turtles'' Eggs.--The Forest.--Peccaries.--Indian Tribes Sea-Cows and Turtles'' Eggs.--The Forest.--Peccaries.--Indian Tribes Down the Amazon.--Steam on the Great River.--Loreto.--San The Amazon began to look more like a lake than a river, having a width The forest of the Amazon is less full of life than the river.


id: 21385
title: On the Banks of the Amazon
author: Kingston, William Henry Giles
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  my friends, Tony and Arthur Mallet, and as soon as I had time I sat down "Yes," said John, "I believe that for a very long time a very strong joined by my companions, and in a little time Ellen and Maria came said Domingos to John and me, while Don Jose was at a little distance. Jose and John helping up Ellen, Domingos assisting Maria, Arthur and I time, I called Ellen and Arthur to look at them. rocky point, I caught sight of the huts, and saw Arthur running towards We had gone on some way, when, passing round a clump of trees, we saw "I will do as you wish," said Arthur; "but I do not like running away turn the canoe round," said John, "and let the raft go first. John, placing Arthur at a little distance, came back to our turning the canoe''s head round, proceeded after our Indian friends.


id: 27101
title: Life of Rear Admiral John Randolph Tucker
author: Rochelle, James Henry
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  SQUADRON ENTERS JAMES RIVER--CREWS OF THE _Patrick Henry_, command of Captain Tucker, on the James river, on the war steamer Henry_--GUARDING JAMES RIVER--SCALING THE GUNS--"NAVAL SQUADRON--TUCKER ORDERED TO COMMAND THE IRON-CLAD James river, but in a short time was ordered to assume command of the James river, desired to present to the _Patrick Henry_ a flag which _Patrick Henry_, 12, Commander J.R. Tucker; _Jamestown_, 2, Lieutenant Whilst the James river squadron was passing the batteries, the in fight all the Confederate vessels in James river, and no course was open to Tucker but to take his squadron up the river and make a stand In August, 1862, Tucker was ordered to command the iron-clad steamer Embarking on board the _Tambo_, Tucker took the steamer up the river nineteen miles from the mouth of the Amazon, following the river, and A chart of the Peruvian Amazon river, from the mouth of


id: 38774
title: Oregon and Eldorado; or, Romance of the Rivers
author: Bulfinch, Thomas
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  Indian chiefs, several large tracts of land near Nootka Sound, for which he anchored at one o''clock in a large river of fresh water, ten miles half miles distance; a village on the north side of the river, this time, another chief, with a large party of white men, were waiting Indian who had straggled a short distance down the river returned, with within a distance of a mile and a half, a small river from the right. Shoshonee Indians fish; five days'' journey farther is a large river from all the forks, as well as on the main river, great numbers of Indians Nov. 4.--Next day, we landed on the left bank of the river, at a village Next day we passed the mouth of a large river, a hundred and fifty yards The water for a great distance off the mouth of the river appears very


