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“Toward noon, turning eastward into the Inuya, we saw the Geoffroy’s dolphin or inia, that gray-yellow river porpoise common throughout the Amazon; how strange it seems to find this animal more than three thousand miles from the sea — though of course there is a theory that all the dolphins and whales of the world were originally land mammals of the amazon basin…”

“Fear is very much like pain, in the sense that, in the intervals that one is free of it, one forgets how very disagreeable it is.”