Subtitle: From Trinidad to Para,? Brazil, by Way of the Great Cataracts of the Orinoco, Atabapo, and Rio Negro General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1872 Original Publisher: W. H. J. Carter Subjects: Venezuela Brazil Orinoco River (Venezuela and Colombia) Rio Negro (Amazonas, Brazil) Indians of Central America History / Latin America / Central America History / Latin America / South America History / Americas Social Science / Archaeology Social Science / Ethnic Studies / Native American Studies Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER IV. August Gth. – I took the steering paddle, and started, with Rogers, Watkins, and an Indian, for the Rio Negro. Watkins and Rogers were in great spirits, and I, of course, did not dwell much upon the impending difficulties of the way. Seiior Dalla Costa gave me letters to the governor of Amazonas, as the Venezuelans call their south-west frontier district. As it was the starting day, we paddled only to about the distance of ten miles above the town, and there camped. The rain was nearly at its highest, and in consequence the current was very strong. Tth. – This morning we had been travelling quite among the tree-tops and wild calabash bushes, as the lowlands were under water. We camped by three o'clock; found plenty of iguana in the trees. I now began to see that I was fortunate in my Indian (Ramon); he worked willingly and well, and, in his Indian way, did things quietly, without my having to remind him of them. Sth. – Sunday in camp. The woods had much improved since the rains; everything therein was now green and graceful. On the side of the stony hill behind our camp were many of the trailingcacti, bearing plenty of their pl…