aramassa

Updated: May 3, 2025

The shallow lakes and bays then contain plenty of fish, and the boys and women go out at night to spear them by torchlight the torches being made of thin strips of green bark from the leaf-stalks of palms, tied in bundles. Many small Salmonidae are also met with, and a kind of sole, called Aramassa, which moves along the clear sandy bottom of the bay.

Henry Walter Bates - The Naturalist on the River Amazons