Life And Nature Under the Tropics Or Sketches of Travels Among the Andes And
Life And Nature Under the Tropics Or Sketches of Travels Among the Andes And
H M Henry Morris Myers
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Reloading our craft, wc pull up, through verdant and pic- 144 THE GEE AT CATARACTS OF THE OEINOCO. turesque islands, to the second rocky dike that spans the river. Our baggage and supplies are to be carried from here over a portage of a league to the upper limit of the rapids, and the boat to be dragged up through the rocky obstructions. The village of Atures, whither we now directed our course, is two miles distant upon the plain, or one below the upper terminus of the portage. The heat of the... at- mosphere, augmented by reflection from the stony soil and granitic masses, was excessive in the extreme. Upon arriving at the village, our Indian guide, who had carried our papelon in a banana-leaf basket upon his head, pre- sented a unique appearance. His head had perforated the mass, which, under the influence of the hot sun, flowed in streams down his naked person. The village consisted of six inhabited mud huts, a little chapel, now used as a dor- mitory for cows, and two abandoned, dilapidated hovels, in one of which we established ourselves for the time we might remain at the Atures.
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