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30. Maury, Amazon and the Atlantic Slopes of South America .
31. Dozer, “Matthew Maury's Letter of Instruction.”
32. Ibid.
33. Guyot, Earth and Man ; Maury, Amazon and the Atlantic Slopes of South America .
34. Guyot, Creation ; Guyot, Earth and Man .
35. Maury, “Our Gulf States and the Amazon.”
36. But see Fredrickson, Black Image in the White Mind ; Johnson, Soul by Soul .
37. Bates, Naturalist on the River Amazons .
38. Mansfield, Paraguay, Brazil and the Plate .
39. Pitts, Turn to Empire ; Seed, American Pentimento ; Vattell, Chitty, and Ingraham, “Law of Na-
tions.”
40. Maury, “Commercial Prospects for the South.”
41. Dozer, “Matthew Maury's Letter of Instruction.”
42. Maury used a pseudonym, “Inca,” for a series of letters and articles published in the National In-
telligencer and Union newspapers.
43. Herndon and Gibbon, Exploration of the Valley of the Amazon .
44. Dozer, “Matthew Maury's Letter of Instruction”; Maury, Amazon and the Atlantic Slopes of
South America .
45. Herndon and Gibbon, Exploration of the Valley of the Amazon .
46. Your author ascribes her safety and survival in adventures in the eastern Amazon to a Grulla
mule with tiger stripes named Comprida, who also eventually had to be returned to muleteers.
47. Many explorer accounts dwell on the formidable rapids and falls that impeded their travels, but
no one has captured the drama as well as novelist Marcio Souza, Emperor of the Amazon .
48. Gibbon was at pains to note the importance of his black boatmen in getting through the rapids.
The region, as later twentieth-century experts of Amazonian colonization in Rondonia would ulti-
mately note, was famously malarial. The prevalence of black boatmen and black colonization on the
Madeira may well have reflected the benefits of the sickle cell gene. See Sawyer and Sawyer, Malaria
on the Amazon Frontier . For a more general discussion also see McNeill, Mosquito Empires .
49. Herndon and Gibbon, Exploration of the Valley of the Amazon , 234.
50. Block, Mission Culture on the Upper Amazon ; Denevan, Aboriginal Cultural Geography ; Erick-
son, “Artificial Landscape-Scale Fishery in the Bolivian Amazon”; Erickson, “Domesticated Land-
scapes,” in Balée and Erickson, eds., Time and Complexity in Historical Ecology ; F. E. Mayle et al.,
“Long-Term Forest-Savannah Dynamics.”
51. Block, Mission Culture on the Upper Amazon .
52. The confusion over boundary lines meant that many fugitive blacks moved into areas not tech-
nically free from slavery. The slaves who fled into to the west from the Madeira may well have thought
they were in Bolivian territory.
53. See da Cunha, Peru versus Bolívia .
54. See Church, Route to Bolivia ; Craig, Recollections of an Ill-Fated Expedition ; Keller-Leuzinger,
Amazon and Madeira River . Also see Foot-Hartmann, Trem Fantasma .
55. Hill, “Confederates in Middle America.”
56. Exemplary in this regard was Dunn, Brazil, the Home for Southerners —a kind of travelogue
about places and forests and reviewing terrains for Southern colonists.
57. The Dawseys devote chapters to the Baptists and Methodists as significant organizing elements
of the immigrant communities: Dawsey and Dawsey, Confederados ; Weaver, “Confederate Immig-
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