Identifier: brazilamazonscoa00smit (find matches)
Title: Brazil, the Amazons and the coast
Year: 1879 (1870s)
Authors: Smith, Herbert H. (Herbert Huntington), 1851-1919
Subjects: Folklore -- Brazil Brazil -- Description and travel Brazil -- Economic conditions Amazon River Valley -- Description and travel
Publisher: New York : C. Scribner's Sons
Contributing Library: Brown University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brown University

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o the baseof the Long incline, keeping near the eastern shore, and aid-ing ourselves as we can, with the branches that droop overthe current. The water is above our waists, running now.with immense force; bottom of smooth, hard rock, with roll-ing pebbles that give no foothold. We struggle on for a fewyards ; the outside men are washed off their feet, and those * This appears to mean Black Village. There are stories of former negro vil-lages on the Maecuru. 362 BRAZIL. near the shore can hardly keep their places by holding to theboughs. D. shouts to one to get into the boat; he does sowith some difficulty, and manages to secure the bow with aturn of rope about a branch ; with this we get a little resting-spell. Now the strongest man is sent ahead with anotherrope; he clambers along the shore, holding to roots andtwigs ; once nearly washed away, but eventually he makeshis rope fast to a tree, and we in the boat pull on it, handover hand, until we bring ourselves up to the knot; in this
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Camp Scene on the Maecuru. way we have advanced twenty feet, but the very sight of thetorrent about us is enouo-h to turn one dizzy. Never mind :we take a little breathing-spell, and then repeat the manoeu-vre. So, by the espia, and by wading in less dangerousspots, we make our way up at a snails pace. After fourhours of this labor we near the top of the rapid ; already weare congratulating ourselves that the worst is over, when THE MAECURU. 363 some unlucky genius prompts one of the men to aid mattersby pushing with a pole away from the bank. In an instantthe current catches us, and whirls us into the very centre ;somebody springs to the helm, but it is too late to reach thebank again ; down we go, at express-train speed, reachingthe bottom again in rather less than three minutes ; fortu-nately there are no rocks in the way. It is too late for another attempt to-night, so we camp onthe shore, tired and gloomy. However, we are at it againnext day, taking now the opposite, and convex s

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