Narrative of a journey from Lima to Para, across the Andes and down the Amazon: undertaken with a view of ascertaining the practicability of a navigable communication with the Atlantic, by the rivers Pachitea, Ucayali, and Amazon . Descent from San Pablo. LONDON:JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE-STREET. MDCCCXXXVI. LONDON: IrmteU by William Clowes and Suns Stamtuid Street. G48199 1 t ? $1 PREFACE. In presenting to tlie Public the following Nar-rative of our proceedings in an attempt of asomewhat adventurous character, we l)eg dis-tinctly to disclaim all assumption of a literarycharacter, for which our pr
Narrative of a journey from Lima to Para, across the Andes and down the Amazon: undertaken with a view of ascertaining the practicability of a navigable communication with the Atlantic, by the rivers Pachitea, Ucayali, and Amazon . Descent from San Pablo. LONDON:JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE-STREET. MDCCCXXXVI. LONDON: IrmteU by William Clowes and Suns Stamtuid Street. G48199 1 t ? $1 PREFACE. In presenting to tlie Public the following Nar-rative of our proceedings in an attempt of asomewhat adventurous character, we l)eg dis-tinctly to disclaim all assumption of a literarycharacter, for which our profession and pursuitshave not qualified us. The expedition was undertaken at the sugges-tions of persons well able to judge of the utilityof its object, and although it has not succeededin attaining that in the manner proposed, we trustit will appear from the following pages that itsfailure is not attributable to any want of exertionor perseverance on our part; and we hope thatthe account of our journey, and the informationcollected in the course of it, may prove not alto-gether useless or uninteresting. A 2 IV PREFACE. With these feelings we launch our little book,and should anything it contains hereafter provein any deg
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