Excerpts from the Book 'Eight Hundred Leagues On The Amazon':

... This was what he did, and the pursuit commenced under these conditions but when the captain of the woods disappeared, the monkey patiently waited until ...
... the haughty outline of the Portuguese type, in which nobility of face unites so naturally with dignity of mind. Benito and Minha responded with ...
... currents can traverse unchecked. Professor Agassiz very properly protested against the pretended unhealthiness o the climate of a country which ...
... of South America, are practically inexhaustible. Joam Garral thoroughly understood the management of these woods, which were rich in the most ...
... of the liana, which, supple as a cord, had formed into a slipknot, and the shakings came from the jerks into which he still agitated it in the last convulsions ...
... Garral desired to build for him a dwelling apart, and heaven knows what care Yaquita and her daughter took to make him comfortable! Assuredly the good ...
... A road, which is but a ravine shaded by ficuses and miritis, leads to it in a few minutes. There, on a half-cracked hill of clay, stand a dozen houses, ...
... there, and was asking himself if he would have to pass the night on the spot to satisfy the expectant crowd, when a stranger arrived in the square, and ...
... turning aside from the main river. In fact, he did so well that on the 25th of July, in the afternoon, after having passed before the village of Parani-Tapera, the ...
... by a narrow channel into the main stream. After catching a glimpse of the hamlet of Tahua-Miri, mounted on its piles as on stilts, as a protection against ...
... between the higher clusters, which shook with the stream. Ibises half-lollingly posed on some old trunk, and gray herons motionless on one leg, ...
... to overwhelm. Eight Hundred Leagues On The Amazon Chapter 1 MANAOS THE TOWN of Manaos is in 3?? 8' 4 south latitude, and 67?? 27' west ...
... death of Judge Ribeiro, inasmuch as his case would come before this not very agreeable judge. Moreover, the task of Jarriquez was in a way very simple. ...
... to house, if necessary, to look for Torres, but their better plan seemed to be to apply in the first instance to the keepers of the taverns and lojas ...
... had been seen, and they are well known to prefer the black waters of the tributaries of the Amazon. Besides, in case of danger, the diver has ...
... l o h h h o t o z v d k s p p s u v j h d. At the outset, Judge Jarrizuez noticed that the lines of the document were not divided either into words ...
... crime, the date of his arrest, the date of the sentence at the Villa Rica assizes, the date fixed for the execution, etc., etc., even the number of ...
... circumstances, the proof disappeared, he would find himself once more in the same position as when he passed the Brazilian frontier???the position ...
... convince him, said: Never, did you say, father? Never! Father, said Manoel???for I also have the right to call you father???listen to us! If we ...
... any one who had not got the key, had he not at any rate discovered the system on which the cryptogram was composed? Without him what could have been done ...