burujuba

Updated: July 21, 2025

The long dark corridors and gloomy cloisters struck me as very inappropriate in the midst of this young and radiant nature. They would be better if placed on some barren moor in Northern Europe than here in the midst of perpetual summer. The next turn in the river below Burujuba brought the city of Para into view. The wind was now against us, and we were obliged to tack about.

Henry Walter Bates - The Naturalist on the River Amazons

We were told that there were formerly eleven large sugar mills on the banks of the Moju, while now there are only three. At Burujuba, there is a large monastery in a state of ruin; part of the edifice, however, was still inhabited by a Brazilian family. The walls are four feet in thickness.

Henry Walter Bates - The Naturalist on the River Amazons