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Title: Brazil, the Amazons and the coast ..
Year: 1879 (1870s)
Authors: Smith, Herbert Huntington, 1851-1919
Subjects: Folklore — Brazil Amazon River Valley Brazil — Description and travel Brazil — Economic conditions
Publisher: New York, Scribner
Contributing Library: Robarts – University of Toronto
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th forest. Dunn fancies that he can distinguish one ortwo cane-fields of the Americans, but he may well be mis-taken. Past white cliffs, and past sand-beaches and rocks beyond.On the northern side a great point of lowland stretches to-ward us, and here the little Furo de Arapichuna is always ?* Otherwise Potita de Sale. The lime-works, owned by Sr. Souza, of Santarem,are quite important. Limestone is l^rought down the Tapajos in barges, and burnedhere. THE TAPAJOS. 229 emptying yellow water into the clear Tapajos. The Ara-pichuna is an Amazonian channel: all the lowland on thatside is built up of Amazonian mud, for the Tapajos hasnothing to build with ; its water carries no sediment at all.The yellow river is still encroaching on the clear one, throughthis Furo de Arapichuna, which has built the point, and islengthening it every day ; Enseada das Araras is simply abay, left at the side of this mud-point, and in time, no doubt,the growth of the point will leave it a lake, with varzea
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Camp on the Tapajos meadows on either side. For the rest, all this lowland liesdirectly across the real channel of the Tapajos, which runsnorth and south ; by and by we shall have occasion tocompare it with similar formations at the mouths of otherrivers. We are following the highland shore, which begins toswing around to the southward. Every little point and bayhas its sonorous Tupi name ; I hope that Brazilians mayhave the good taste to retain them, instead of putting saints 230 BRAZIL. names and theological phrases in their place. All the In-dian designations were formed naturally. Let us suppose,for example, that some fisherman wished to direct his com-panions to a certain point or bay ; there was no acknowl-edged name, so he pointed out the locality by some featurethat distinguished it, or some event that had happened there. That point where we saw the alligator yesterday, or, as hewould put it, The point of the alligator. Next day, or theweek after, some one is telling the story
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