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| Map | [Frontispiece] |
| San Antonio—River Madeira (looking down Stream)[1] | [25] |
| Garitea, or Traveller’s Canoe, River Madeira[1] | [33] |
| Cascara, or Bark Canoe of the Caripunas and other tribes of the River Madeira[1] | [60] |
| Curious Inscriptions on Rocks at different Rapids | [77] |
| Indian Girl of Exaltacion[1] | [130] |
| The Bata[1] | [143] |
| Sketches of Trinitario Indians[1] | [153] |
| Necklace of Bright Red Beans[1] | [188] |
| Group of Bolivian Musical Instruments, etc.[1] | [189] |
| Author, and Yuracaré Indians | [ 191] |
| View of Cochabamba | [219] |
| Sucre, or Chuquisaca, Capital of Bolivia | [258] |
| General Quevedo | [271] |
| President Frias | [290] |
| El Cerro de Potosí | [322] |
| Yesca and Mecha Holder (Potosí)[1] | [326] |
| A Chulpa[1] | [343] |
| Quichuan Oven (Llollia)[1] | [360] |
| Quichuan Woman of Llollia[1] | [361] |
| Pass of Tacora | [378] |
| La Portada | [381] |
| Angostura | [383] |
FOOTNOTES
[1] From a sketch by the Author.
UP THE
AMAZON AND MADEIRA RIVERS.
CHAPTER I.
Brazilian coast—True and false Salinas—Dangers of the mouth of the Amazon—Pará—Steamers on the Amazon—Amazon Steam Shipping Company, Limited—Vicinity of Pará—European residents—Climate.
After about twenty days’ steaming from Liverpool with southerly and westerly courses, the low-lying coast of the north of Brazil appears, and navigators who are not acquainted with the locality have considerable trouble in making out the pilot station of the Salinas.