Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 459
we had a quick andpleasant voyage to the end of the river, if that name can be applied to the lower Amazon. Therewere places where the shore on either side fadedentirely out of view, and we seemed to drift on aflowing ocean, like the sailors that commit them-selves to the current of the… … JNDIAN FIG-TREES—SHOWING THE AIR-ROOTS. ing-places. We saw tapirs and herds of pecca-ries, and one day we surprised a troop of capy-baras, or water-hogs, basking in the sun at the endof a long sand-bank. Our skipper landed at a.point where the bank joined the shore, and wehad a grand chase; with…
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