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Title: The American Museum journal
Identifier: americanmuseumjo16amer (find matches)
Year: c1900-(1918) (c190s)
Authors: American Museum of Natural History
Subjects: Natural history
Publisher: New York : American Museum of Natural History
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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30 THE AMERICAN MUSEUM JOURNAL At this place we had to wait nine days before we could ford the swollen river, and when at last we essayed the crossing, urged on by the sight of a more secure camping place on the farther bank, we speedily regretted the attempt. The mules became panic stricken in mid- stream, turned, and were whirled into the rapids at the junction of the two ri^-ers where four of them were swept river bed, but in March we entered the main street by canoe, and when we stepped out on land we were almost in the plaza of the town. In the pam- pas around the city many interesting studies could be made. The macaws and toucans gave way here to egrets, ibis and spoonbills, while the oven birds with their homes of red clay, and the huge hills of the termites, were on every
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Wfuviiig a pouclio from yarn iiiado from llif wool of native sheep and spun by hanti. VN eaving is the great industry for the women. Wherever a woman is seen, in the fields or market places, or even walking to and from market, she is constantly spinning. The ponchos and skirts of the Indian have always been handmade and home- made in the past. Of recent years German agents have sent patterns of Indian garments to Germany where they have been copied almost exactly in color and less exactly in pattern: therefore today the Indian may exchange his agricultural products at the shops in the towns for German-made cloth'.ng of inferior quality away. P'our crossed in safety; the others were left with the arricro who took them back to Cochabamba, while our party continued on foot, until several days' journey below where we found smooth water and a dugout canoe. Halfway down the Mamore River lies Trinidad. Again the seasonal rain played havoc with our shooting. In summer Trinidad is high above the side. Trinidad would be an excellent cattle center but for the poor grazing facilities during the winter. Two hun- dred miles below, Sefior Snares, a Portuguese known as "the Rubber King," has fifty-thousand head, from which the supply of dried beef is drawn for his rubber camps. Proceeding by the river steamer , to Guajamarim, we here changed to the

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