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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eep.There is very little water in it now. The banks break down perpendi-cularly. The growth of small trees and flowers gives a fresh appearanceto the valley, but the sun is very warm as we pace along the dusty road.The apple trees are about the size of raspberry bushes. There are few varieties of birds in the valley; some pigeons and doveskeep the table-pretty well supplied. Little Ignacio takes great interestin the sport, and his sharp eyes are constantly on the look-out for a shot.By the river snipe are found ; among the flowers, the humming bird isseen and heard. The road crosses a number of dry beds, streams of considerable sizein the rainy season. There is only water enough, at present, for thewashwomen, whose soap-suds spoil the water for our beasts. AVe passthrough the village of San Lorenzo, and the small town of Concepcion.A death-like silence pervades these places; the people are in the fields,except some Creoles, seated among the flowers in their neat little court MsJh%) m:
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AFFECTION OF ANIMALS. 7 yards. The streets are nan-ow and the houses small. All the townsof the Puna are built pretty much after the same fashion, and of thesame material; the only difference in their outward appearance beingproduced by the cultivation of foliage and flowers, where the soil andclimate permit. When this is not the case, the town presents a stupid,uninteresting aspect. Children, dogs, and pigs, earthen pots, and bedsof straw, surround a smoking fire on the ground floor of a one-roomedhouse. The smoke escapes through the door-way; the only opening forlight or a change of air. During storms, or at night, the door is closed.One peep inside satisfies the North American he can find no rest there.But here, in the valley, the cooking is done under the trees, and theinmates of the house wander out in the shade. We have often noticedexpressions of friendship between children and dogs; the latter showshis pleasure by wagging its tail, while the smiling child pulls his ears.The pi

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