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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Samuel Stevens
Date:
20 March 1850
Source of text:
Stevens, S. (1850). Journey to explore the natural history of the Amazon River. Annals and Magazine of Natural History : Series Series 2, 6 (36): 494-496 [pp. 495-496]
Summary:
Delays in finding new canoe crews each few days to go upriver, arrived at Bara 30th of December; took 34 days from Santarem. Plagued by mosquitos until reached Rio Negro, which deserves its name: waters are “black as ink”, but mercifully no mosquitos. Staying with Sir Henrique Anthony; Richard Spruce arrived there previous evening. Impossible to send live animals from here, would not pay to do so. Collected more umbrella bird skins, bell birds, and two new species of anacaris [aracaris?] (small toucans).
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project