A Journey in Brazil

About this eBook

Author

Agassiz, Elizabeth Cabot Cary, 1822-1907

Credits

Produced by Richard Tonsing and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

Language

English

LoC Class

F2501: Latin America local history: Brazil

Subject

Geology -- Amazon River Valley

Category

Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 56171

Release Date

December 12, 2017

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.A JOURNEY IN BRAZIL.
2. 2.PREFACE.
3. 3.TABLE OF CONTENTS. — APPENDIX.
4. 4.LIST OF WOODCUTS.
5. 5.CHAPTER I. VOYAGE FROM NEW YORK TO RIO DE JANEIRO.
6. 6.CHAPTER II. RIO DE JANEIRO AND ITS ENVIRONS.—JUIZ DE FORA.
7. 7.CHAPTER III. LIFE IN RIO CONTINUED.—FAZENDA LIFE.
8. 8.CHAPTER IV. VOYAGE UP THE COAST TO PARÁ.
9. 9.CHAPTER V. FROM PARÁ TO MANAOS.
10. 10.CHAPTER VI. LIFE AT MANAOS.—VOYAGE FROM MANAOS TO TABATINGA.
11. 11.CHAPTER VII. LIFE IN TEFFÉ.
12. 12.CHAPTER VIII. RETURN TO MANAOS.—AMAZONIAN PICNIC.
13. 13.CHAPTER IX. MANAOS AND ITS NEIGHBORHOOD.
14. 14.CHAPTER X. EXCURSION TO MAUHES AND ITS NEIGHBORHOOD.
15. 15.CHAPTER XI. RETURN TO MANAOS.—EXCURSION ON THE RIO NEGRO.—LEAVE MANAOS.
16. 16.CHAPTER XII. DESCENDING THE RIVER TO PARÁ.—EXCURSIONS ON THE COAST.
17. 17.CHAPTER XIII. PHYSICAL HISTORY OF THE AMAZONS.
18. 18.CHAPTER XIV. CEARÁ.
19. 19.CHAPTER XV. PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS OF RIO DE JANEIRO.—ORGAN MOUNTAINS.
20. 20.CHAPTER XVI. GENERAL IMPRESSIONS OF BRAZIL.
21. 21.APPENDIX. — I.—THE GULF STREAM. — II.—FLYING-FISHES. — III.—RESOLUTIONS PASSED ON BOARD THE COLORADO. — IV.—DOM PEDRO SEGUNDO RAILROAD. — V.—PERMANENCE OF CHARACTERISTICS IN DIFFERENT HUMAN SPECIES. — VI.—SKETCH OF SEPARATE JOURNEYS UNDERTAKEN BY DIFFERENT MEMBERS OF THE EXPEDITION.
22. 22.TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES

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