teffe

Updated: May 22, 2025

A large, navigable stream, the Bararua, enters the lake from the west, about thirty miles above Ega; the breadth of the lake is much contracted a little below the mouth of this tributary, but it again expands further south, and terminates abruptly where the Teffe proper, a narrow river with a strong current, forms its head water.

Henry Walter Bates - The Naturalist on the River Amazons

The River Teffe Rambles through Groves on the Beach Excursion to the House of a Passe Chieftain Character and Customs of the Passe Tribe First Excursion: Sand Islands of the Solimoens Habits of Great River Turtle Second Excursion:Turtle-fishing in the Inland Pools Third Excursion: Hunting-rambles with Natives in the Forest Return to Ega

Henry Walter Bates - The Naturalist on the River Amazons

The wind carried us right into the mouth of the Teffe and at four o'clock p.m. we cast anchor in the port of Ega. Scarlet-faced Monkeys Parauacu Monkey Owl-faced Night-apes Marmosets Jupura Bats Birds Cuvier's Toucan Curl-crested Toucan Insects Pendulous Cocoons Foraging Ants Blind Ants

Henry Walter Bates - The Naturalist on the River Amazons

The Teffe is almost deserted, and near the sources of the Japur there remained but the fragments of the great nation of the Umauea. The Coari is forsaken. There are but few Muras Indians on the banks of the Purus. Of the ancient Manaos one can count but a wandering party or two.

Jules Verne - Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon

Our canoe was a stoutly built igarite, arranged for ten paddlers, and having a large arched toldo at the stern under which three persons could sleep pretty comfortably. Emerging from the Teffe we descended rapidly on the swift current of the Solimoens to the south- eastern or lower end of the large wooded island of Baria, which here divides the river into two great channels.

Henry Walter Bates - The Naturalist on the River Amazons