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Title: Three Vassar girls in South America : a holiday trip of three college girls through the southern continent, up the Amazon, down the Madeira, across the Andes, and up the Pacific coast to Panama
Year: 1885 (1880s)
Authors: Champney, Elizabeth W. (Elizabeth Williams), 1850-1922
Subjects: South America -- Description and travel Amazon River -- Description and travel Peru -- Description and travel
Publisher: Boston : Estes and Lauriat
Contributing Library: University Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Digitizing Sponsor: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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THE MADEIRA TROUBLE. 167 the way before her with an axe, she made a short excursion into thetbrest, and returned with some of the fruit of the guarana. Philo-mena prepared thepaste, moulding itinto the shape oi thecurupira, or bird ofthe evil eye ; forwithout this symbolicform she was surethe drug would loseits efficacy, and un-der its administra-tion the Professor fora time experiencedsome relief. Duringtheir marches he Avasnow carried in ahammock, and keep-ing up heart as bestthey could, with theknowledge that theywere nearing the Cachoeira das Ba-naneiras, the last im-portant fall of theMadeira. It was at the Ba-naneiras, however,that the last catas-trophe occurred. The violent treatment which the boat had re-ceived in its battles with sharp rocks in being towed throughrapids, and especialh the straining and wrenching in rolling o^■er
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MOUTH OF LATERAL RIVER. ^L^DE11;... i68 THREE VASSAR GIRLS IN SOUTH AMERICA. the stony Lrround and through the obstrueting underbrush hadso weakened it, that when the Indians loaded it in the rapids above the falls, theshock occasioned bythe fall of a heavy boxof fossils, which one ofthe Indians dropped,jiroved the last straw^and the canoe wentto pieces before theireyes. Fortunately, none of the part) wereon board, and the In-dians rescued most ofthe provisions, but theProfessors preciouscollections went to thebottom like lead. Thepoor man gave a cryof amazed grief, andsank back in his ham-mock, utterly over-come. What was to be done ?Xothing but to camponce more and waitfor help. They werein the neighborhoodof unfriendly Indians^notorious robbers andplunderers who, were they aware of their misfortune, would take ad-vantaire of their distressed condition; but the river was the highway,

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