Exploration of the Valley of the Amazon, Made Under Direction of the Navy Department 1
Exploration of the Valley of the Amazon, Made Under Direction of the Navy Department 1
United States Navy Dept
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The lake is a pretty and nearly circular sheet of water of two and a half miles in diameter, and is twenty feet deep in the centre. There were a great many water-fowl in it, but principally cranes and cormorants. Padre Flores, as usual gave us a room in his house, and seats at his table. I admired a very old looking silver spoon that he had on the table, and which Ijurra judged to be of the date of Ferdinand and Isa- bella, from the armed figures and lion's head upon the handle ; where- 232 INC...ANTATIONS. upon the padre, with the courtesy that belongs to his race, insisted upon my accepting it. I was glad to have it in my power .to acknowledge tl» civility by pressing upon the padre a set of tumblers neatly put up in a morocco case, which had been given me by R. £. Johnson, first lieutenant of the Yandalia. After dark he proposed that we should go out and see some of the incantations of the Indians for the cure of the sick. We heard mono at a distance, and approached a large house whence it proceeded, in which the padre said there was almost always some one sick.
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