The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1892-11-03
Away up the Amazon.


y AMAZoNIAN STEAMER. THE oMNI-
.GT>ENT HAMMOCK.
,esal correspondence OF The journal.
NANAos, Brazil, Sept. 18th, 1892. Al
nh a thousand miles up the mightiest
ivers, and yet within the borders of
ltzation; in city of news papers and
eEes, hotels and opera houses, electric
1t, and hackney coaches, tramways
telephones; in short, with most of
comforts and conveniences that can
aund at home, and with things of
rest thrown in to which the far cold
NIB is a stranger.
he more explicit about it, Manaos is
q The Amazon river, but on the Rio
Having come some nine hundred
aity miles up the liking of Waters,
aIdc a sudden turn into the Negro
and on the left bank of the latter
.-lic stream, which at this point is
mile wide, perhaps dozen miles
10 Is junction with the Amazon. is
5a,, the Capital city OF Alto Am
mas. the largest and northcrnmost pro
me- Of Brazil. The change from one
ID To- the other is as marked in color as
tgam the Mississippi to the Missouri
llton, Ill. The slow blacl1ish water of
Nr-ro river refuses to amalgamate with
u,hing yellow tide of the Amazon,
Ike two, holding apart from one an
remain sharply defined for many
$. till at last, aftel the manner OF most
earthly. the larger and stronger
rs the weaker
he accounts OF former navigators are
S and certainly we have no reasons to
g te theml, wonderful improvements
bcen made within the last quarter
uy in the means of travel up and
MI this greatest system of the
/. Now several lines of Brazilian
/ uucls run regularly as far up as
-tt'N. anu ttAllpilS tlltll lilN DldEi1ihil
lln Navigation Company sends
: st as fine as any that cross the Attain
There are two big English steamers,
IT d thousand tons burden, which
wv from Liverpool direct to Para and
= inue up the Amazon: returning to
pool via New York. For the
.lrr who finds himself in Para the
passenger line is the "Amazonian
4 m Navigation Company" whose sail
h ay, for Manaos are the LIST, 10th, and
L il every month. 1t is an English
any. but the officers and engineers
Brazilians and the crew are Indians,
. whom are no more docile expert
: aleful navigators. This line receives
,idy from the Brazilian government
go hundred thousand dollars year
le are plenty OF other vessels, both
amin. and sailing, in which nothing is
lass except the price, wherein pas
.ls are expected to provide their own
4- Accommodations III the way OF
looks, to be swung III d miscellaneous
, o, over the decks where privacy is ut
, count and dogs and pigs. scampering
l, act in the capacity Of scavengers.
stranger Will do well before embark
Fl, listen to local advice as to his choice
aelniers; and, if going very long way
. river, 10 obtain written agree
Willie engaging passage, before leaV-
l5 or paying oven his money, con-
4 the kind of accommodation and
Atty OF food to be furnished him.
wise it is said, he will have a chance
nearly starved on several week 5 diet
H. and canned food whereas, having
Il good round sum, he is manifestly
et3 ed TO some Of the fresh fish. beef
tton. which are found in abundance
I ~. the route.
las one may go from the Atlantic
I'D hi To within one hundred miles Of the
4 from Para to the foot of the An
Il Rith no more discomfort and with
II more pleasure than can be eXpe-
I'd in trip down the Mississippi from
aul to New Orleans. There is a
er which leaves Manaos on the 18th
ay month for Iqutes. in Peru, d dis
I'll of |. 152 miles from that starting
md about thousand miles farther
Para. The same vessel visits other
on the eastern border Of Peru, in
9 the noted town OF Tabatingo, to
1 the fare, from Manaos, is SO. 90.
steamers ply between Para and san
4 MO, at the head of navigation on the
iva river: a distance OF !. -. miles,
and trip fare $50. 90. Others run
month to Anaias, on another of
enarkable atfluents of the Amazon,
miles above Para. Another line
- llyutanaham its terminus, :, 991
n above Para. Numerous steamers
p and down the Rio Negro, and the
Iom Para to Santa Isabel. which is
as most travellers would care to 90,
hi 2.V0-distance, 1870 miles. 1t is
M orthy fact that most of the fuel CON
4 On all these vessels is coal brought
u England. the wretchedly poor inhab-
/ 4 who live along the rivers at the
J IA Of boundless forests preferring to
flo their precarious business of rub
" \ ntiny. especially when. as usual il