In the Amazon Jungle Author:Algot Lange Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER IV THE JOURNEY UP THE ITECOAHY RIVER WITH the subsiding of the waters came my long-desired opportunity to travel the course of the unmapped Itecoah... more »y. In the month of June a local trader issued a notice that he was to send a launch up the river for trading purposes and to take the workers who had been sojourning in Remate de Males back to their places of employment, to commence the annual extraction of rubber. The launch was scheduled to sail on a Monday and would ascend the Itecoahy to its headwaters, or nearly so, thus passing the mouths of the Ituhy, the Branco, and Las Pedras rivers, affluents of considerable size which are nevertheless unrecorded on maps. The total length of the Branco River is over three hundred miles, and it has on its shores several large and productive seringales. When on my way up the Amazon to theBrazilian frontier, T had stopped at Manaos, the capital of the State of Amazonas. There T had occasion to consult an Englishman about the Javary region. In answer to one of my inquiries, T received the following letter, which speaks for itself: Referring to our conversation of recent date, I should wish once more to impress upon your mind the perilous nature of your journey, and I am not basing this information upon hearsay, but upon personal experience, having traversed the region in question quite recently. Owing to certain absolutely untrue articles written by one H—, claiming to be your countryman, I am convinced that you can not rely upon the protection of the employees of this company, as having been so badly libelled by one, they are apt to forget that such articles were not at your instigation, and as is often the case the innocent may suffer for the guilty. On the other hand, without this protection you will find yourself abso...« less