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The Prussian naturalist Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) was one of the most famous explorers of his generation. Charles Darwin called him 'the greatest scientific traveller who ever lived'. In 1799, Humboldt and the botanist Aimé Bonpland secured permission from the Spanish crown for a voyage to South America. They left from Madrid and spent five years exploring the continent. Humboldt reported his findings in a total of thirty volumes, published in French over a period of more than twenty years beginning in 1805. This English translation by Helen Maria Williams of one important component of Humboldt's account, the Relation historique du voyage (1814-1825), consists of seven volumes and was published in London between 1814 and 1829. Volume 5 (1821) describes Humboldt's travels through the Orinoco basin and across several sets of rapids, and the indigenous people, missionaries, animals and plants he encountered on the journey.
Contents
Book VII: 20. The mouth of the Rio Anaveni. Peak of Uniana. Mission of Atures. Cataract, or Raudal of Mapara. Islet of Surupamana, and Uirapuri; 21. Raudal of Garcita. Maypures. Cataracts of Quittuna. Mouth of the Vichada and Zama. Rock of Aricagua. Siquita; 22. San Fernando de Atabapo. San Balthasar. The Rivers Temi and Tuamini. Javita. Portage from the Tuamini to the Rio Negro; Notes to Book VII; Book VIII: 23. The Rio Negro. Limits of Brazil. The Cassiquiare. Bifurcation of the Oroonoko; 24. The Upper Oroonoko, from Esmeralda to the confluence of the Guaviara. Second passage across the cataracts of Atures and Maypures. Lower Oroonoko between the mouth of the Rio Apure and Angustora, the capital of Spanish Guyana.
