Excerpt from Brazil: The Amazons and the Coast
In 1870, when a young student, I made a trip to the Amazons in the company of my friend and teacher, Prof. C.F. Hartt. The glimpse of tropical life which I then obtained, acted as a constant attraction to draw me back to these glorious forests and rivers. In 1874 I returned to Brazil, with the design of collecting and studying the Amazonian animals. After two years, spent in the vicinity of Santarem, I was requested by Prof. Hartt, then in charge of the Brazilian Geological Commission, to make some explorations on the northern tributaries of the Amazons and on the Tapajos. These explorations occupied, altogether, more than a year. On their completion I went to Rio de Janeiro, spending four months there before returning to the United States.
It was then that I began to dream of writing a book on Brazil, but for a long time the idea remained latent. I had, indeed, a large mass of notes, and a collection of about one hundred thousand specimens, principally entomological; but the notes were thrown together at random, and a large portion of the collections were still in their packing-boxes. Heretofore my reading of books on Brazil had been desultory and not very extensive. I now began to collect such works as I could obtain, and to compare the views of the various authors with my own observations. This taught me a new difficulty. I found that most travellers either praised Brazil unduly, or condemned the country altogether.
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