Identifier: explorationofval00hern (find matches)
Title: Exploration of the valley of the Amazon
Year: 1853 (1850s)
Authors: Herndon, William Lewis, 1813-1857 United States. Navy Dept Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862 Mann, Horace, 1796-1859 Gibbon, Lardner
Subjects: Amazon River Valley -- Description and travel Brazil -- Description and travel Peru -- Description and travel Bolivia -- Description and travel America -- Discovery and exploration
Publisher: Washington, R. Armstrong (etc.) Public Printer
Contributing Library: Brown University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brown University

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e of the coca. The men of Mojos appear to possess more physicalstrength; they are more supple and active than the mountain Indians,All agree perfectly as to indolence. The Creole portion of the popula-tion of Bolivia are the most idle of the two races. J0n_t^he^l4th of August, 1852, Don Antonio found his cargo could notbe disposed of in Trinidad, and he must return to Brazil with his boats.Don Antonio had Brazilian boatmen—neofroes and mestizos. Thesemen came up from the Amazon with him, and were thought the onlykind of people who could be employed upon the expedition. At daylight in the morning, Cayuba came with his wife and thirtyIndians, bearing poles, to carry our baggage to the port at Trapiche.Cayubas wife brought us yuca and oranges to use on the voyage. Ourpassports were made out, and upon my offering to pay what was usual,the Intendente, who was a very polite person, said the government didnot charge me. The passports of Don Antonio and his twelve people cost him the m fc^=
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.^.:^il:. ANT-HILLS. 259 sum of four dollars, for permission to return by the river Mamor6 to liisown country, more than half the distance being through the wilderness,beyond the line of civilization. The authorities insisted upon it; he re-quired a Bolivian passport to present to the authorities of his owncountry when he arrived there, otherwise they would not know wherehe came from. There was some displeasure shown towards DonAntonio, that he had not a thousand dollars in silver. He, on the otherhand, was displeased at being obliged to take cacao, instead of silver, forhis goods. The prefect of the Beni gave me a letter to the prefect of the depart-ment of Santa Cruz, in case we found it impossible to get men in thetown of Matto Grosso, for Don Antonios boat to descend the Madeira,and could not pass by the forts on the Paraguay river, or over thecountry to the Atlantic, through Brazil. We would have a passport toreturn into Bolivia. It is necessary to have permission to come in aswe

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