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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pened it with his knife, and made readythe second time. The knife was fastened to a string suspended roundthe neck; after using it, he threw it over his shoulder, where it hung onhis back out of his way till the next fish was caught. The knife lookedlike a table knife broken square off, and sharpened at the end like achisel, and was used as such, not like a common knife. As the fish were thrown out one after the other, in quick succession,the excitement became very great; they chatted and laughed all thewhile, and appeared to be joking one another. Their faces brightenedpleasantly as they drew out the fish, and whenever one of them missed,they all shouted in loud laughter. Each man shot five fine fish, andone of them one more. They then repaired their fishing scaffold andleft the lake. After we had returned some distance they stopped, cutfresh green leaves from a sort of cabbage plant, and rolled them one byone therein, after their entrails had been taken out. One of them made t? ^^Hi
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MANNERS OF THE INDIANS. 195 a little willow hand basket in a moment, and the game was secured fromthe heat of the smi, which by this time was shining down brightly. Apart of their mornings labor was presented to me. I returned fish-hooks, which pleased them more than anything that could be given tothem. A little aboriginal came for the fish, and while he took themhome to the women, the Indians went with us to the ferry. These Indians are much more cheerful than those on the mountains.They have a great fancy for bright colors, and live after their own fashion.Their manners and customs are their own, and have never been changedby the influence of the white man. Like the country they live in, theyare as the God of nature made them. Their natural disposition is apeaceful one, with a decided character, which shows that the Span-iards may come among them and live with them if they please. Butthe happy life of the hunter is not to be given up for the more laboriouswork of cultivating coca pa

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