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 . in Peru, and runs parallel to theMadeira. If almost all the accounts which wehave seen of the river Beni did not agree in statingthat it falls into the INIadeira, we should have beeninclined to hazard the conjecture, that the Purusand the Beni were one and the same stream. We intended to have drifted down the riverduring the night, but heavy squalls coming on, wewer
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 . in Peru, and runs parallel to theMadeira. If almost all the accounts which wehave seen of the river Beni did not agree in statingthat it falls into the INIadeira, we should have beeninclined to hazard the conjecture, that the Purusand the Beni were one and the same stream. We intended to have drifted down the riverduring the night, but heavy squalls coming on, wewere obliged to take shelter in a creek on the leftbank for some hours. On the 2nd we passed thevillage of Pesquera early in the morning, and seve-ral chacras, or farms, and one a coffee plantation,on which we landed to cook our meal. The ownerof it, a Portuguese, seeing how we were employed,was so kind as to send us down a mess from hisown dinner. In the evening we had the misfor-tune to drop our thermometer into the river \yletaking the temperature of the Avater, and we hadno longer the means of keeping our register. Atmidnight we stopped at the mouth of the RioNegro, having made one hundred and four milesin the two ?^ c. ; ^•^ ^ ^ I I<i ?- J I 293 CHAPTER XV. Rio Negro—Barra—River Amazon—Santarem—RiverTapajos—Gurupa—Para. Early in tlie morning of the 3rd we entered theriver Negro, Avhose beautifully clear water formsa strong contrast with the thick stream of theINIaranon ; it flows smoothly, and the current ishardly at the rate of three miles in the hour. Atten oclock we arrived at the town of Barra, whichis now called Manoas. It contains about onethousand inhabitants, nearly all Indians; but thepopulation is said to have been on the decreaseever since the mutiny in 1832, when the Com-mandant was killed, and the town has the appear-ance of being on the decline, for many of thehouses are in a state of decay. There was for-merly a great manufacture of pott
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