Identifier: explorationofval00hern (find matches)
Title: Exploration of the valley of the Amazon
Year: 1853 (1850s)
Authors: Herndon, William Lewis, 1813-1857 United States. Navy Dept Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862 Mann, Horace, 1796-1859 Gibbon, Lardner
Subjects: Amazon River Valley -- Description and travel Brazil -- Description and travel Peru -- Description and travel Bolivia -- Description and travel America -- Discovery and exploration
Publisher: Washington, R. Armstrong (etc.) Public Printer
Contributing Library: Brown University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brown University

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ows to be ready for game and for fish, which theysaid were plenty farther down the country. We gave them fish-hooksthey were delighted to get, and promised if we overtook them in themorning, they would shoot us a turkey or some fish. After they sleptfor a few hours, Cornelio says they rose up and travelled at midnight,single file, by the path we afterwards followed by the light of day. Their forms are straight and well made, but they were not strong men.The expression of face was feminine. They looked bleached by the sideof a Quichua Indian, who was much stouter built. Their hair isworn long, like the Quichua and Aymaras, wearing it in a long traill)ehind. The Yuracares had rather a pleasant face, but not a verybright eye. Besides his knife, he carried a cane fife, showing a tastefor music; and from the variety in a bark camisa, he certainly is fondof fancy colors, which he procures from the dye-woods of the province.His bows and arrows were the same as the Indians use in California ;
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CULTIVATION OF COCA. 185 both long. Those designed to shoot fish were beautifully made andfitted; the points or heads of hard black wood; the arrow a reed, withcolored feathers. Jose is again at a loss to understand the Indian language, so we makeuse of Oornelio, who is an old friend among these people, and seems tobe popular. They see him often on the road which passes through theirhunting grounds. The cap the Indian wears upon his head, Corneliosays, was purchased in Cochabamba, Indian like, instead of buyingcorn for the road. Maize and yuca serve the men here as bread. Coffee, chocolate, andsugar are their groceries; beans and pepper their vegetables; oranges,papayas, plantains, and bananas, their fruits. The Creole is constantlypulling at the tobacco-leaf to roll up in a corn-husk as a cigar. He im-ports rice, and flour when he can get it; gunpowder, shot, fish-hooksand lines. This coca business is superintended by a person who employs menfrom the valley of Cochabamba, willing to

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