. The lower Amazon; a narrative of explorations in the little known regions of the state of Pará, on the lower Amazon . f these swamps lurksnakes, especially the surucucus and the jarardcas,and the voracious fish of cannibalistic tendencies,the piranha. But their recklessness is alwaysgreat when young and healthy; and hungry andin a hurry besides. It is seldom one hears of acci-dents to rubber-workers from any other causethan snake-bites, which occur in the Para countryat the rate of one a week. About nine in the morning the seringueiro hasfinished his tapping, or, as he expresses himself inPo
. The lower Amazon; a narrative of explorations in the little known regions of the state of Pará, on the lower Amazon . f these swamps lurksnakes, especially the surucucus and the jarardcas,and the voracious fish of cannibalistic tendencies,the piranha. But their recklessness is alwaysgreat when young and healthy; and hungry andin a hurry besides. It is seldom one hears of acci-dents to rubber-workers from any other causethan snake-bites, which occur in the Para countryat the rate of one a week. About nine in the morning the seringueiro hasfinished his tapping, or, as he expresses himself inPortuguese, /a cortei, and will now return to hishut to leave his 7nachadi?iha, and picking up hisgun, and the balde in which he is to carry the latexhome, he goes to the first tree where some hours agohe began his work. He quickly draws the tigelinhafrom the bark and empties its contents into thebalde, and when all four or five cups are emptied,he places them bottom up on a stick alongsidethe tree, as he had done before. He quickly coversthe ground which he traversed in the morning,emptying all the little tin The rubber-worker on his way homeHis path leads across a narrow and deep ygarape, where a tree has been felled.—fPage 55)(Photographed for the Brazilian Rubber Exposition)
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