The kind people who gave me supper here and a drink there are too numerous to list, but for kindness, advice and assistance, and incidental hospitality I am especially indebted to the following: Captain Geoffrey Davis, Mr. Deslandes, Brian Starmer, Derek Johnson, and Mike Williamson (M.S.Venimos); Harry Haddad (Belém); Jack Henderson, Wayne Snell, Joseph Hocking (Yarina Cocha); Andrés Porras, Celeste Allen, Señor Rafael Larco Hoyle, Sir Berkeley and Lady Gage, Madeleine Vuillemin, Anna and John Timoney, Mr. Dum Tweedy, Señor Augusto Benavides, and Elizabeth and Ted Kiendl (Lima); Señora Estelle León de Peralta and her kind family, Señor Benjamino de la Torre, and Colonel Tooey (Cuzco); Peggy Cody (La Paz); Señores Fernando Menendez Behety, Jorge and Francisco Campos Menendez (Punta Arenas); Jaime Speroni, George Blackwell (Río Grande); Capitán Ernesto Campos, Señora and Señor Eduardo Menon (Ushuaia); T. L. Bridges (Viamonte); Peter de Rougemont, Roberto Corte Real (Rio de Janeiro); Otto Austel (Macauba).
And finally, I would like very much to thank Andrés Porras and Wayne Snell, who have been good enough to inspect the finished journal which forms Chapter 6 of this volume for any errors or distortions.
Index
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Acacia trees, 69
Aconcagua, Mount, 82
Agassiz, Louis, 33, 240
Agostino, a boga, 195, 198, 201–202, 206, 209, 216, 258
Agouti, 241
Agriculture, 53, 62, 76, 134, 214
Aguaruna Indians, 51
Air plants, 44, 69, 159
Alacalufe Indians, 91, 95, 105
Albatross, 93–94
Alder tree, 71
Alejandro, a bearer, 181, 185, 187, 190–91, 193, 195, 198, 201–203, 205–207, 209, 215, 217, 221, 230, 244, 247, 254, 264–66
Algae, 7–8, 110
Allen, Celeste, 158
Altiplano, 59, 73, 76, 80, 86
Amahuaca Indians, 222, 227, 235, 239–40
Amasisa tree, 229
Amazon River, 22, 26, 142, 151, 228, 240; main channel of, 32; survey of, 29; temperature near, 28
Amazonas, 23–24, 36, 46, 118; dangerous creatures of, 54; size of, 27; waters of, 24
American Museum of Natural History, 261, 268
Anaconda, 24–25, 32, 37, 53, 55
Anápolis, Brazil, 119, 123, 128
Anchoa, 116
Andes, the, 204; Argentine, 80, 88; Bolivian, 80, 149; Chilean, 80–81, 86–89, 98; crossing of, 69; Peruvian, 51, 58–59, 65
Angulo, Alejandro, 153
Ani, 49, 168; groove-billed, 13
Anta, Peru, 69
Antilles Current, 7, 10
Ant, 161; army, 165; biting, 165; black, 39, 135, 184; fire, 135; leaf-cutting, 186; stinging, 24; white, 40
Ants’ nests, 40, 119
Aracaras, Brazil, 142
Araguarí River, 21
Araguaya River, 120, 127–30, 140, 142
Arara, 131
Araucanian Indians, 113
Arawak Indians, 16
Architecture, modern, 117; South American, 115; Spanish, 62, 64
Ardiles, Rudi, 181–84, 189–94, 197–98, 206, 211–14, 257, 260
Argentina, 73, 79–81, 88–89, 97–98
Argentino, Lake, 89
Arrayolos furo, 32
Artifacts, Inca, 114–15, 261; Indian, 91; pre-Inca, 114–15, 153, 261
Ascensión, a boy, 170–71
Atacama Desert, 60
Atalaya, Peru, 56, 151, 154, 225, 227, 242–43
Auca Indians, 48
Austel, Otto, 131, 133, 137–39
Ayahuasca, 262
Ayesta, Fray Jaime, 211–12, 214, 217
Aymara Indians, 73
Ayoré Indians, 149
Babassu tree, 131
Bacanique, Peru, 187, 213
Bahamas, the, 10
Bahía Blanca, 113
Bahía Grande, 112
Bahía Negra, Paraguay, 146
Balsa rafts, 164, 170, 174, 184, 193, 196, 207, 213
Balsa tree, 184
Bananal, Brazil, 138
Bananas, 43, 125, 185, 214
Banisteriopsis caapi, 262
Barbados, 2, 4, 12–13, 18
Barbasco plant, 48
Barbet, 230
Bariloche, Argentina, 85
Basagoitia, Antonio, 221, 226, 262
Basurco, Juan, 152, 254
Bates, H. W., 29, 37, 40, 169, 193n., 251
Bat, 43, 49, 225, 246–47; vampire, 24, 55
Beagle Channel, 97, 105
Beech tree, 92, 102, 109–10
Belém, Brazil, 4, 21–24, 27, 119, 169
Belén, Peru, 47
Benjamin Constant, Brazil, 46
Bermejo River, 81
Bermuda, 2–3, 5–7
Bignonia tree, 33
Bingham, Hiram, 67, 70
Birds, 3–7, 12–13, 15–16, 19, 119; of Argentina, 103, 109–10; of Bolivia, 74; of Brazil, 22, 27, 30, 33–36, 39–40, 43–46, 128, 130–132, 134–35, 140–42, 145; of Chile, 83–84, 91, 93–99; of Peru, 49, 53, 58, 61, 66–67, 71, 159, 163, 165, 168, 186, 188, 201, 204, 217–18, 220–21, 224–25, 227–30, 235–36, 245, 252
Birds of La Plata, Hudson, 39, 228
Black and Gold, 74
Black Drunken River, see Yanatili River
Blackwell, George, 102
Blacque, Dorry and Ted, 77, 104
Blue tang, 13
Boa constrictor, 54
Bogas, 195, 214–16, 258
Bolaina tree, 218
Bolivia, 31, 66, 71–72, 77, 80, 144, 146, 149
Bolognesi, Peru, 246–47
Bongoni maelstrom, 196
Boobies, 18–19; piquero, 61–62; red-footed, 15
Borora Indians, 143
Borrachudo, 135
Branco menor, 140
Branco River, 193n.
Brasilia, Brazil, 117–18, 121
Brasilia-Belém highway, 119
Brazil, 21, 23, 31, 46, 49, 55, 73–74, 145–47, 193n.; birds of, see Birds; forests of, 38; Indian Service, 137; interior of, 118–20; language of, 143
Brazilian Adventure, Fleming, 136
Brazilians, 115, 122, 126
Brazilwood tree, 134
Breadfruit tree, 17
Bridges, Lucas, 101, 105, 108; quoted, 111
Bridges, Oliver and Betsy, 103–105, 110
Bridges, Thomas, 105, 108
Bridges-Reynolds family, 100, 109
British Guiana, 19
Bromelia, 159
Broom, Spanish, 66; yellow, 69
Brown, John, 202
Brunswick Peninsula, 94
Buenos Aires, Argentina, 80–81, 110, 115
Buenos Aires, Lake, 88–89
Buenos Aires province, 81
Bunch grass, 71
Buriti palm, 141
Burroughs, William, 262
Bushmaster, 24, 54
Butantan, Brazil, snake farm at, 116, 256
Butterflies, 39, 168, 183–84, 186; helicon, 169; morpho, 49–50, 160, 168, 218, 229
Button, Jemmy, 92, 105
Cáceres, Brazil, 143
Caco, Peru, 250
Cacti, 69; Yucca, 66, 71
Cahow, 6–7
Caicos Islands, 10
Caihaique, Chile, 87
Caiman, 24, 37, 47, 53, 144, 146, 219–20, 234
Calafate plant, 92, 97
Callao, Peru, 51
Calomito fruit, 50
Camisea, Peru, 167, 256
Camisea River, 219, 263
Campa Indians, 230
Campos, Captain Ernesto, 107
Campos Geraes state, 34
Campos-Menendez family, 92
Camungo bird, 44
Camus, Albert, 127
Canaries Current, 7
Candellaria del Gallardo, Señora, 96
Candiru
, 24, 55
Cannibalism, 91, 106
Cannon-ball tree, 44
Canoes, 131, 134, 150, 169–70, 174, 188, 211, 217, 228
Canueira Indians, 140
Canyons, 200
Caoba tree, 239, 251
Cape Horn Island, 106–107
Capybara, 135, 234
Caracara, 119, 130
Caraja Indians, 127, 130–34, 136, 138
Carancho, 103, 109
Cardiel, Argentina, 89
Carib Indians, 16
Caribbean Sea, 15
Cashibo Indians, 249
Castelnau, Francis de, 267; quoted, 268
Castries, Saint Lucia, 17
Catfish, 227; piraiba, 32
Catholic Church, 127, 258; see also Dominicans
Cattle, 83, 119–20, 129, 134, 144, 227
Cayenne, 21
Cedro (cedar) tree, 134, 228, 239, 250–51
Ceiba tree, 30, 33–34
Céline, quoted, 18
Centipo Indians, 51
Century plant, 66, 125
Cetico tree, 218
Chama Indians, 249–50, 252
Chapras Indians, 52
Charapilla tree, 220
Charlotte, Fort, 17
Chesea River, 248
Chicha, 66–67, 79
Chico River, 112
Children, Indian, 65, 71, 76–77, 131, 164
Chile, 60, 73, 80–84, 88, 97, 113; see also Birds, of Chile
Chilean Archipelago, 85–86
Chilean Islands, 109
Chiloé Channel, 86
Chiloé Island, 82, 86
Chimango, 83, 90, 103
Cholo Indians, 66
Chonta tree, 241
Choqueyapu River, 77
Christmas Day, 1959, 40–43
Chubut River, 112
Churches, 114–15
Cinco Hermanos, 106
Clam, 110
Clark, Leonard, 37, 156–57, 210, 267
Clothing, Indian, 65, 76–77, 139, 189, 195, 248–49
Coboclo, 29, 34, 36, 40–41, 50
Coca, 66, 160, 168, 187
Cochabamba, Bolivia, 73–74, 114
Coffee, 129, 160, 163, 188–89
Coimbra, Fort, Brazil, 145–46
Colbert, Edwin, 268
Colombia, 26, 46
Colorado River, 111, 113
Comodoro Rivadavia province, 112
Compleat Angler, The, Walton, 9
Concepción province, 159
Conibo Indians, 245, 248
Conquest of Peru, Prescott, 64
Conservation laws, 37
Contraband, 21–23
Cook, Frederick A., 106
Coot, 67
Copacabana Beach, 116
Corcovado, Gulf of, 82, 85
Corcovado, Mount, 86
Cordilleras, 59, 83
Coribene, Peru, 172, 175, 211–12, 260
Coribene River, 171, 173
Cormorant, 61–62, 93, 95–96, 107, 110; bigua, 30
Corumbá, Brazil, 73, 143, 145, 147–148
Cougar, 91
Cox, Mrs. Bertha, 156
Crocodile, 231, 234, 238, 251–52; white, 218, 229, 244
Crocodilians, 24, 43, 48, 146, 234
Cruz, César, 56, 151–52, 154–55, 161, 167, 171–73, 175, 205, 207, 210–11, 219, 222–23, 225–27, 230–31, 236–37, 241–44, 247–48, 251–55, 262, 268
Cuba, 14
Cuiaba, Brazil, 118, 143
Culebra chicolillo, 165
Curlew, eskimo, 91; Hudsonian, 96
Cushma, 195, 214, 230
Cuzco, Peru, 62–65, 69, 114, 153–155, 157–58, 162
Dana, Richard Henry, 90
Dances, 68, 71, 139
Dandelions, 92, 97
Darwin, Charles, 62, 90–92, 105–106; quoted, 86, 91–92, 104, 109, 113
Darwin, Mount, 98
Dawson Island, 94
Deane, Peter, 99
Deane, Jean and Tony, 116
Deer, 130, 135, 140, 145, 204
Demerara River, 19
Deserts, Andean, 60, 82; Argentine, 89; Bolivian, 149; Patagonian, 112
Devil’s Island, 21
Diablotin, Mount, 16, 19
Diez, Padre Manuel, 222, 224
Diseases, 24, 105, 109, 153
Dolphin, 93, 95; Commerson’s, 94; Geoffrey’s, 32, 35, 227; river, 246
Domingo, Cape, 99
Dominica, 16
Dominican Republic, 15
Dominicans, 171, 209–11, 213–14, 217, 221–22, 258–60
Dove, 53, 66, 74, 168
Dragon’s Mouth, 18
Drunkenness, 57, 67–68, 79, 137–138, 178, 262
Duck, 67, 93, 98, 130, 145, 204; Antarctic, 110; pintail, 109; sea, 107; “steamboat,” 96
Duguid, Julian, 148–49
Ecuador, 26, 48, 60
Eel, 9; electric, 24, 55
Ega, Brazil, 37
Eginereu Teixera, Brazil, 128
Egret, 30, 43, 49, 130, 132, 140, 145; cattle, 12; snowy, 33; white, 27, 34, 71, 145, 225
El Encuentro, Peru, 154–55, 159–164, 226
Emu, 128
Encuentros, 196, 235, 242
Equatorial Current, 7
Estancia José Menendez, 100
Estancia María Behety, 99–102
Estancia Viamonte, 100, 104, 109
Eucalyptus trees, 64–65, 69, 74
Fagnano, Lake, 103, 107–108, 111
Falcon, 229
Falkland Islands, 111
Fawcett, Colonel P. H., 37, 53, 55, 64, 122, 148; quoted, 31–32, 54, 269
Fer-de-lance, 24, 54
Fig tree, 33, 69
Finch, 53, 168; cardinal, 228
Fish, 9, 11, 13–14, 17–18, 22, 24, 32, 37, 43, 50, 102, 110, 116, 134, 220, 227, 240
Fitz Roy, Captain, 92
Flamingo, 71, 132
Fleming, Peter, 136
Flowers, 44, 49, 69–71, 84, 92, 96–97, 145, 159, 184, 204
Flycatcher, 19, 39, 97, 135, 220
Flying fish, 5, 9, 15
Fordlandia, 34
Forests, 86, 103; Bolivian, 146–47; Brazilian, 129
Fossil jaw, 56, 150–52, 154, 223, 226–27, 231, 236–38, 248, 252, 254, 260–62, 268–69
Fox, 101
Frigate bird, 15, 19
Frog, 57, 165–66
Fruit, 50, 53, 108, 164
Fuegian Indians, 91–92
Fulmar, giant, 107
Gallegas River, 112
Gannet, 15
Geese, 99; Caiquen, 101, 109; Magellan rock, 93; upland, 98
Georgetown, British Guiana, 19
Germans, 47–48, 83, 95
Gibbon, Lardner, 267
Ginsberg, Allen, 262, 269
Giordia, Padre, 171–72, 175–76, 212
Glaciers, 86, 103–104
Glass, George, 128, 130–31, 138–142
Goiania, Brazil, 118–20, 123, 142
Goiás state, 117–18, 120–21, 130, 134, 141–42
Golfo Nuevo, 112
Golfo San Jorge, 112
Gonaïves Gulf, 14
Gonave Island, 14
Gran Chaco, 81, 146
Grease Creek, 237
Great Inagua, 11
Grebe, 67
Green Hell, Duguid, 148, 166
Gregorio, 163, 169
Gregory, Professor, 210
Grenada, 16–17
Grenadine Islands, 17
Groen, Mr., 12
Grouper, 13
Guabo fruit, 50
Guacamayo, 220
Guadaloupe, 16
Guanaco, 89, 102
Guano, 60–61, 101
Guan, 181, 218
Guaqui, Bolivia, 72
Guaratinga, Brazil, 142
Guianas, the, 21
Gulf Stream, 3–5, 7
Gull, 3–4, 19; Andean, 66; Belcher’s, 61; brown-hooded, 93; Franklin’s, 61; gray, 61; he
rring, 3, 5–6; kelp, 61, 93, 98; laughing, 19; serranita, 71
Gurupí, Brazil, 140
Haciendas, 159–60, 165, 173, 175, 188, 193, 207, 221, 225–26, 247, 251
Haiti, 4, 11, 14
Hambre River, 107
Handbook of South American Indians, Herndon, 49
Happy Days raft, 194, 197, 200–205, 209, 216–17, 266
Harberton, Argentina, 100
Hawk, 30, 34, 43, 46, 71, 83, 168, 218, 224, 229; black-breasted, 99; carrion, 98
Henderson, Jack, 52
Hermite Islands, 82, 85, 97, 106
Herndon, Lieutenant William, 267; quoted, 29, 49
Heron, 12, 43, 145, 224
Hidden Lake, 107
Hispaniola, 15
Hoatzin, 30, 228, 239
Hocking, Joseph, 53–56
Horn, Cape, 82, 85, 97
Hornets, 24, 135; nests of, 40
Horse Latitudes, 8
Horses, 102, 113; wild, 89, 98, 109
Hoste Island, 106
Hoyle, Rafael Larco, 153
Huadquina hacienda, 159
Huallaga River, 55, 169, 200, 212
Huambisa Indians, 51
Huayna Picchu, 70
Hudson, W. H., 39; quoted, 228
Humboldt Current, 60–61
Hunting, 133, 234–35
Ibis, 83, 97, 145
Iguana, 57
Illimani, Mount, 73
Imbauba tree, 33
Inca, steamer, 72
Inca flower, 69
Incas, 62–64, 67, 69, 114, 151
Indian medicines, 50
Indian villages, 76, 130–31, 136, 171–73
Indians, 24, 31, 37, 40, 47, 52, 60, 62, 65–66, 71, 75, 77, 79, 127, 130-31, 133, 136–37, 139–41, 143, 145–46, 149–50, 153, 156, 171–73, 182, 187–89, 193, 195–197, 200–210, 214, 216–19, 221–222, 227–28, 230, 245, 248–50, 252, 257–60, 262, 268; ferocity of, 48, 91–92; horse, 113; hostile, 51, 56, 74, 105–106, 140–41, 157, 210, 235, 239–40, 263; killing of, 137; treachery of, 108
Inias, 32, 35, 227
Insects, 24, 55, 135, 144, 168, 220, 247, 251
Inuya River, 56, 151, 154, 227–28, 235
Ipé tree, 119, 141
Iquitos, Peru, 21, 31, 46–47, 52
Isla Bananal, 129–30
Isla de Lobos, 116
Islands, 60–61, 82, 85–86, 106–107, 111, 113, 142
Jabiru, 130
Jacaranda tree, 119
Jacare, 146
Jacoba tree, 134
Jaegers, 4, 15; pomarine, 5, 11
Jaguars, 24, 55, 135, 144, 160, 165
Jararaca, 24, 54
Jariuba Point, 32
Javahe Indians, 130, 133, 140–41
Javarí River, 46
Jawbone, see Fossil jaw
Jay, 221
Jivaro Indians, 48, 50–51
Jolly, Stratford, 155–56, 267; quoted, 191, 199