jangada

• For one reason the plan of the jangada was not yet complete, and it was necessary that its construction should not be interrupted for a day, and another was that Yaquita and Cybele, well seconded as they were by the domestics of the fazenda, had not an hour to lose Minha had accepted the offer with much pleasure, and so, after breakfast on the day we speak of, at about eleven o'clock, the two young men and the two girls met on the bank at the angle where the two streams joined. —  Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon
• But there are only a small number of these fugitives, they only move in isolated groups across the savannahs or the woods, and the jangada was, in a measure, secured from any attack on the parts of the backwoodsmen On the other hand, there were a number of settlements on the river--towns, villages, and missions. —  Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon
• There were no precautions against attacks To conclude our description of the jangada, we have only to speak of one or two erections of different kinds which gave it a very picturesque aspect In the bow was the cabin of the pilot--we say in the bow, and not at the stern, where the helmsman is generally found. —  Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon
• It was from the sides, by means of long boathooks or props thrust against the bed of the stream, that the jangada was kept in the current, and had its direction altered when going astray. —  Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon
• Assuredly the good old priest had never been so lodged in his modest parsonage The parsonage was not enough for Padre Passanha; he ought to have a chapel The chapel then was built in the center of the jangada, and a little bell surmounted it It was small enough, undoubtedly, and it could not hold the whole of the crew, but it was richly decorated, and if Joam Garral found his own house on the raft, Padre Passanha had no cause to regret the poverty-stricken church of Iquitos Such was the wonderful structure which was going down the Amazon. —  Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon

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