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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oys all rose andbowed politely. Among the inhabitants were an unusual number ofelderly women. The temptation was great to ask their ages; but assome dislike questions of that sort, I might make an enemy withoutgetting a fact. An Indian hut in the valley sketches the inhabitants.Jose appears between the man and his wife, telling them, in theQuichua language, that I live far oflf to the north, and want to showthe people there what kind of people are here. The old Indian chewsan extra quantity of coca leaf. The woman looks astonished, and thechild is disgusted, though all stand still as they are told. The man wasemployed threshing barley with a long pole. The woman was cooking,and the child playing -with the dog, when we arrived. The nights are*very cold, the days warm and pleasant. To a church and few housesnear the road has been given the name of Acobambilla. The Indiansaround answer the bells to prayers. We ascend the top of the mountain and see perpetual snow in aU ^^IfeS* ■^^S8*-i
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NEW WORLD CAMELS. • 11 directions, overhung with heavy, black, cumulus clouds, above whichthe cirrus shoot upwards; in the zenith the sky is clear and of thedeepest blue. Spring water 44° ; air 45°. Richards shot at four wild geese with his carbine and single ball;two of the geese flew off, leaving the others very much frightened. Thegeese flew across a small snow-water lake. These birds are white, theends of wing and tail being black, with red bills and legs, as large as thedomestic goose, though not so tender. Tadpoles, but no fish, were to beseen. Wild ducks kept at a distance. The llama is pasturing andgiving birth to its young close under the perpetual snow line. The alpacaand huanacos—species of the llama—are in numbers also. Llamasoccupy the useful position among the aboriginal race of South America,that the camel does to the wandering man in Arabia. These animalscarry loads of one hundred pounds, over roads too dangerous for themule or the ass, and climb mountains diff

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