carepira

Updated: May 2, 2025

Both were intrepid canoemen and huntsmen, and both perfectly at home anywhere in these fearful wastes of forest and water. Carepira had his son with him a quiet little lad of about nine years of age. These men in a few minutes constructed a small shed with four upright poles and leaves of the arrow-grass, under which Cardozo and I slung our hammocks.

Henry Walter Bates - The Naturalist on the River Amazons

Those who had light montarias sped forward with bows and arrows to shoot them. Carepira was foremost, having borrowed a small and very unsteady boat, of Cardozo, and embarked in it with his little son.

Henry Walter Bates - The Naturalist on the River Amazons

I succeeded at length with Carepira, by offering him a high reward when his finances were at a very low point, but he repented of his deed ever afterwards, declaring that his luck had forsaken him from that day. The next morning we again beat the pool. Although we had proof of there being a great number of turtles yet remaining, we had very poor success.

Henry Walter Bates - The Naturalist on the River Amazons

Carepira, who was now attached to Cardozo's party, had discovered another lake rich in turtles, about twelve miles distant, in one of his fishing rambles, and my friend resolved, before returning to Ega, to go there with his nets and drag it as we had formerly done the Aningal.

Henry Walter Bates - The Naturalist on the River Amazons