Sinopsis

I embarked at Liverpool, with Mr. Wallace, in a small trading vessel, on the
26th of April, 1848; and, after a swift age from the Irish Channel to the
equator, arrived, on the 26th of May, off Salinas. This is the pilot-station for
vessels bound to Para, the only port of entry to the vast region watered by
the Amazons. It is a small village, formerly a missionary settlement of the
Jesuits, situated a few miles to the eastward of the Para River. Here the ship
anchored in the open sea at a distance of six miles from the shore, the
shallowness of the water far out around the mouth of the great river not
permitting, in safety, a nearer approach; and, the signal was hoisted for a
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