Up the Amazon And Madeira Rivers Through Bolivia And Peru
The book Up the Amazon And Madeira Rivers Through Bolivia And Peru was written by author Edward Davis Mathews Here you can read free online of Up the Amazon And Madeira Rivers Through Bolivia And Peru book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is Up the Amazon And Madeira Rivers Through Bolivia And Peru a good or bad book?
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After about four hours' ride we arrived at Pachimoco, a single house, where lives the Intendente of the Yuracares, Jose' Tiflis by name, and next in authority to the cacique. We were received very kindly, the supplies of the chaco, such as yucas, maize, and plantains, being freely offered to us. Here I noticed that many of these Indians suffer from skin diseases, amongst them being a leper. Their women are dirty and uncombed, and, after the usual manner of savages, have to do all the hard work ...of wood and water carrying, while the men hunt, fish, and plant in the chacos. From the Coni to Pachimoco is reckoned as five leagues, but it cannot be more than four, if so much, as we were travelling barely four hours and did not do more than about a league an hour, as the road was very bad, being full of pot- holes of mud and slush. The " naturales," as the Yuracares are generally termed by the Bolivians, are splendid walkers, and on the few good parts of the road I had to keep my mule well at work in order to bo up with the cacique, who led the way on foot ahead, carrying my gun, and a very fair-sized THROUGH BOLIVIA AND PERU.
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