William Henry Edwards

A Voyage Up the River Amazon: Including a Residence at Pará William Henry Edwards

In these stirring times iiiben all A nglo-S azondom is on the qui-vive for no Yelty, and the discovery of a new wateringplace is hailed with more enthusiasm than the discovery of a new planet,-when the universal Yankee nation has so nearly exhausted all the whereabouts which modem fiicilities for locomotion ;have brought so conveniently within its reach, when the Old World has become also an old story, and summer excursions to St. Petersburg and Tornea, and winter sojourns in Australia and Typee, have afforded amusement, not only to travellers themselves, but to those who, at their own fire-sides, like equally well to take a trip to the ends of the earth in their comfortable arm-chairs; it has been a matter of surprise to me, that those who live upon the excitement of seeli and telling 8H ne new thing have so seldom betaken themselves to our Southern continent. Promising indeed to lovers of the marvellous is that land, where the highest of Earth smountains seek her brightest skies, as though their tall peaks sought a nearer acquaintance with the most glorious of stars; where the mightiest of rivers roll majestically through primeval forests of boundless extent, concealing, yet bringing forth, the most beautiful and varied forms of animal and vegetable existence; where Peruvian gold has tempted, and Amazonian women have repulsed, the unprincipled adventurer; and where Jesuit missionaries, and luckless traders, have fallen victims to cannibal Indians and epicurean anacondas.
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