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Title: The Andes and the Amazon :;bor across the continent of South America
Year: 1876 (1870s)
Authors: Orton, James
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Publisher: New York: Harper
Contributing Library: Natural History Museum Library, London
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anifestation of sm--prise was a cluck with the tongue.* Upon presenting thegovernor with a vest, he immediately cut oif the buttons,and, dividing the cloth into four parts, shared it with hisfellows.f When it rained they invariably took off theirponchos, but in all our intercourse with these wild menwe never noticed the slightest breach of modesty. Theystrictly maintained a decent arrangement of such apparelas they possessed. A canoe containing a young Indian,his bride, and our governors wife and babe, accompaniedus down to the Maranon. They were going after a loadof salt for Sandoval. The girl was a graceful paddler, and * Bates says the Mundurucus express surprise by.making a clicking soundwith their teeth, and Darwin observes that the Fuegians have the habit ofmaking a chuckling noise when pleased. t The like perfect equality exists among the Fuegian tribes. A piece ofcloth given to one is torn into shreds and distributed, and no one individualbecomes richer than another.—Darwin.
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Canoe-life on the Napo. 213 had some well-founded pretensions to beauty. Her coarse,black hair was simply combed back, not braided into plaitsas commonly done by the Andean women. All, both maleand female, painted their faces with acliote to keep off thesand-flies. Pratt managed the lielm (the governor could not workthe Yankee notion) and the kitchen. At Santa Rosa weliad added to our Quito stock of provisions some manati-lard (bottled up in a joint of a bamboo) and sirup, and atCoca we took in three fowls, a bag of rice, and a bunch ofbananas. So we fared sumptuously every day. We leftCoca on Thanksgiving Day, November 28th, and to imitateour distant friends, we sacrificed an extra meal—fricasseedchicken, jerked beef, boiled yucas, bananas, oranges, lemon-ade, and guayusa. Favored by a powerful current and therhythmic paddling of our Santa Rosans, we made this daysixty miles; but our average daily run was fifty miles.Tlie winds (doubtless the trades) were almost unchangea-bly from

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