[465] “Ensayo Corografico sobre o Pará. This author cites no authorities, but he had access to very valuable documents and manuscript maps in the archives of Pará, most of which were unfortunately destroyed or dispersed during the uprising of the cabanos in 1835; and wherever I have had the opportunity of testing his statements by personal observation I have found them very exact.
[466] “New Discovery of the Great River of the Amazons. Markham’s Transl., p. 107.
[467] “Acuña writes these names respectively ‘Curucurus’ and ‘Quatausis.’
[468] “The original exists as an appendix to the ‘Falla dirigida á assemblea legislativa provincial do Amazonas, no dia 1º de Outubro de 1853,’ by Senhor Herculano Ferreira Penna, the learned and patriotic president of the province, who presented me with a copy of it when I revisited the Barra in 1854.
[469] “Tolda, roof to shelter the after part of a canoe.
[470] “Furo, a channel between two points of the same river, or from one river to another, which becomes filled with water in the time of flood. A narrow channel between an island and the bank is generally called a Paraná-merím, or little river.
[471] “Caldeiraō, a noted whirlpool in the Amazon, near the left bank, above the mouth of the Rio Negro.
[472] “Solimoēs, the Brazilian name of the Amazon from the Rio Negro to the frontier, or even as far up as to the mouth of Ucayali.
[473] “The furo, or paraná-merím, of Paratarý is the lowest mouth of the Purús, and it appears that Serafim sailed along it for three days before reaching the main channel. In 1851 I spent nearly a month on the lakes of Manaquirý, about forty miles below the mouth of the Purús, and found that the Paratarý had many ramifications, communicating not only with those lakes, but also with the much larger lake of Uauatás to the eastward, and thence with the river Madeira. In the rainy season, indeed, it is possible to navigate for hundreds of miles parallel to the southern side of the Amazon without ever entering that river.”
[474] “The beaches on the Amazon and its tributaries are very important to the Indians, being the places where the turtles lay their eggs; and hence they all have a special name.