Rough Notes of a Journey Through Wilderness, From Trinidad to Para, - By Way of the Great Cataracts of the Orinoco, Atabapo, and Rio Negro

An 1872 account of travels in South and Central America, including observations on the cultivation of the rubber tree.

List of contents

Part I. Rough Notes of a Journey through the Wilderness: 1. Starting; 2. Cutipita; 3. Mura raudales; 4. Iguana camp; 5. Jovito hill; 6. A moonlight start; 7. Increase of rain; 8. Maroa and its vicinity; Part II. A Journey among the Woolwa or Soumoo Indians of central America: 1. Impressions of St Lucia; 2. The Woolwa river; 3. Starting for the Rama branch; 4. Temple's explanation; 5. Starting for Consuelo; 6. Return to the coast; 7. Continuation of journey to Blewfields; 8. A prayer-meeting at Hawl-over; 9. The old Soukier; Report on the industrial classes in the provinces of Pará and Amazonas.

Product details

• Authors: Henry Alexander Wickham
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 13.02.2014
• EAN: 9781108070041
• ISBN: 978-1-108-07004-1
• No. of pages: 354
• Series: Cambridge Library Collection -
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Botany