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Title: Exploration of the valley of the Amazon
Year: 1853 (1850s)
Authors: Herndon, William Lewis, 1813-1857 United States. Navy Dept Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862 Mann, Horace, 1796-1859 Gibbon, Lardner
Subjects: Amazon River Valley -- Description and travel Brazil -- Description and travel Peru -- Description and travel Bolivia -- Description and travel America -- Discovery and exploration
Publisher: Washington, R. Armstrong (etc.) Public Printer
Contributing Library: Brown University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brown University

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ake arrangements to getout of the Madeira Plate, which is considered difficult. There are threeways to reach the Atlantic ocean; one by the Paraguay river; the otheracross the empire of Brazil, from the town of Matto Grosso to RioJaneiro, and the third by the Madeira to the Amazon. These roads allpass through tribes of savage Indians. We must try all three before weturn back towards the Pacific. We dined with the prefect and all the oflScers of the prefectura,besides some of the correjidores of the neighboring towns in the province.The correjidor or governor of Trinidad, under the immediate eye of theprefect, is an Indian; but those of the smaller towns are Creoles, appointedby the prefect, and approved by the government. The beef was tough and insipid ; yucas watery. The correjidoresparticularly fancied boiled cabbage, baked plantains and yucas served asbread, except on particular occasions, when corn-cake, made of grainmashed into paste between two stones, was presented. The corn is
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DON AI^TONIO DE BARRAS CORDOZA. 231 raised on tlie pampanear the river banks, and the stones sold in market, )after being transported from Yuracares. ^ A row of large glasses containing chicha was set in the middle of thetable, to which the government officials paid particular attention. Oneof the young men at the table had the goitre very badly, though theswelling was so low down on his neck that he could tie his cravat overit, which gave him a most strange expression. We attribute the insipidtaste of the beef of dinner, and the swelling in this mans neck, to thesame cause—the want of salt. x The coffee was excellent, but the tobacco not so good as some we \found in Cochabamba from Santa Cruz, where the plant grows under a Ja drier climate. Don Antonio de Barras Cordoza, a native of Para in Brazil, came tosee us. Don Antonio seems a clever person. He had more resolutionin the expression of his face than any man we had met with, while helooked as if he had seen some hard service as

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