. The lower Amazon; a narrative of explorations in the little known regions of the state of Pará, on the lower Amazon . re my re-port on timber for the Department ofAgriculture. During the last weekin May, 1912,1 found opportunity topay a visit to the long island, Ilha das Ongas, whichlies opposite the city of Para. Although so nearthat the arc-lamps on the docks of the city can dis-tinctly be seen from there at night, one is apparentlyhundreds of miles away. Until a couple of monthsago the Amazon Steam-Navigation Company hadtheir repair-shops on the north-eastern shore ofthis island, but this
. The lower Amazon; a narrative of explorations in the little known regions of the state of Pará, on the lower Amazon . re my re-port on timber for the Department ofAgriculture. During the last weekin May, 1912,1 found opportunity topay a visit to the long island, Ilha das Ongas, whichlies opposite the city of Para. Although so nearthat the arc-lamps on the docks of the city can dis-tinctly be seen from there at night, one is apparentlyhundreds of miles away. Until a couple of monthsago the Amazon Steam-Navigation Company hadtheir repair-shops on the north-eastern shore ofthis island, but this is now gone, and there remainsof the establishment nothing but a few houses, orhuts, along the water, where the people lead thesame monotonous lives as in the interior. Thereare a few rubber estates on the island but all seemto be half-abandoned. The land lies very lowand to a great extent is constantly forest covers every square foot of it and evenreaches far out into the actual river, leaving nodistinct shore-line. Numerous ygarapes intersectthe island, running dry at low tide and filling up at 64. Rubber-worker in the act of gashing the tree(Photographed for the Brazilian Rubber Exposition)
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