Naturalists in Paradise by John Hemming

Author:John Hemming
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780500252109
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
Published: 2015-03-13T16:00:00+00:00

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1 Broadly, the rainy season in the southern hemisphere is from November to March, the exact opposite north of the equator, but irregular on the line itself.

2 The position Director of Indians, hated in colonial times, had been revived in 1845 in Brazil’s important legislation on indigenous policy. This job title may have implied championing and protecting indigenous peoples. It was nothing of the kind. The Director of Indians was supposed to ‘civilize’ his charges and turn them into detribalized and docile workers.

3 Spruce was told, correctly, that from the upper Baria there is a short portage to the Cauaburi, which enters the Negro below the São Gabriel rapids. Because of this, modern Brazilian cartographers refer to the huge flat forested area enclosed by these rivers and the Rio Negro as Ilha Pedro II (Pedro II Island).

4 The Imeri table mountain group that contains the conical Neblina was in fact not climbed until a century later, and then by a substantial American-led expedition. This author was lifted onto the tepui by helicopter as part of a Venezuelan research project that found a wealth of new botanical and entomological species on the dense vegetation along the summit.

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