Brazil, the Amazons and the coast .. . nal to the other, only to water hisgarden. The fountain-head of the Rio Estivado, true trunk of theArinos, is in a hollow of the chapada, where it is inclined to the north. * According to R. F. de Almeida .Serra, the source of the Juruana is in lat. 14°42 30 S., and long. 60^ 43 W. G. The village of Diamantina, according toChandless, is in 14° 24 33 S. lat. and 56 8 30 long. W. G. ; the sources of theArinos lie from ten to fifty miles almost directly east of that point. THE TAPATJS. 2X1 two hundred metres east from the house, and in a grove of miritipahns
Brazil, the Amazons and the coast .. . nal to the other, only to water hisgarden. The fountain-head of the Rio Estivado, true trunk of theArinos, is in a hollow of the chapada, where it is inclined to the north. * According to R. F. de Almeida .Serra, the source of the Juruana is in lat. 14°42 30 S., and long. 60^ 43 W. G. The village of Diamantina, according toChandless, is in 14° 24 33 S. lat. and 56 8 30 long. W. G. ; the sources of theArinos lie from ten to fifty miles almost directly east of that point. THE TAPATJS. 2X1 two hundred metres east from the house, and in a grove of miritipahns. Eighty-four metres west of the same house appears the sourceof the Tombador, a tributary of the Cuyaba. Near the Fazenda doMacii, during floods, the water flows down a valley, and then divides sothat a portion descends to the Cuyaba and the rest to the Tapajos. Through all this series of rapids, canoes can be pushedand dragged to the Arinos, and so to the Rio Preto, withinfourteen miles of Diamantina ; only some high falls must be. Ascending the Rapids. passed by land, pulling the canoe over poles placed acrossthe path. In fact, some canoes do make this voyage everyyear; and they are even dragged by land to the Paraguay,whence they can go on to the Plata. Chandless attests this : From time to time, when the waters are highest, canoes have passedover the water-shed ; while I was in Diamantina, one with a cargo offifteen hundred arrobas (thirty-two pounds each), which had come fromnear Santarem, crossed and descended the Paraguay to \i!]a Maria. 252 BRAZIL. Perilous work it is, passing the rapids, wading in the swiftcurrents, dragging the boat with long lines and pushing itwith poles. Barboza Rodriguezs description of the Coatacachoeira is worth translating : At nine oclock we were in front of the first fall, which appeared tome to be insurmountable. Here there was a large canoe, belonging toa merchant; it was unloaded, and fast among the rocks, where it hadbeen for eight day
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