In the Amazon Jungle

by Algot Lange

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from CHAPTER IV THE JOURNEY UP THE ITECOAHY RIVER WITH the subsiding of the waters came my long-desired opportunity to travel the course of the unmapped Itecoahy. In the month of June a local trader issued a notice that he was to send a launch up the river for trading purposes and to take the workers who had been sojourning in Remate de Males back to their places of employment, to commence the annual extraction of rubber. The launch was scheduled to sail on a Monday and would ascend the Itecoahy to its headwaters, or nearly so, thus passing the mouths of the Ituhy, the Branco, and Las Pedras rivers, affluents of considerable size which are nevertheless unrecorded on maps. The total length of the Branco River is over three hundred miles, and it has on its shores several large and productive seringales. When on m

Genres: Nonfiction, Travel, History

122 pages, Paperback

First published November 3, 2006

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Reviews

[Al Macy · Rating 5 out of 5]

An exciting and informative look at the Amazon jungle.

[El-Jahiz · Rating 5 out of 5]

A full length adventure in deep Amazon among the cannibals -written in 1911 with so much wit! Simply loved this raw adventure!