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14.
Haenger, Shaffer, and Lovejoy,
Slaves and Slave Holders
; Heywood and Thornton,
Central
Africans, Atlantic Creoles
; Klieman,
“The Pygmies Were Our Compass”
; Thornton, “Warfare in At-
lantic Africa.”
15.
Stepan,
Picturing Tropical Nature
; Schiebinger and Swan;
Colonial Botany.
16.
See, for example, Thornton,
Congolese Saint Anthony
; Heywood, “Portuguese into African”;
Fernandez-Armesto,
Before Columbus
.
17.
See essays in
chapter 11
, above.
18.
Da Cunha “Contrastes e confrontos.”
19.
Arnold,
Problem of Nature
; Arnold,
Warm Climates and Western Medicine
; Stepan,
Idea of
Race in Science
.
20.
Borges, “Puffy, Ugly, Slothful and Inert.”
21.
From da Cunha's
À margems da historia.
22.
François Louis de Caumont LaPorte, Comte de Castelnau (1810-80), was a French naturalist and
diplomat. Greatly influenced by Cook's travel stories as a child, he studied natural science in Paris un-
der Cuvier (Agassiz was also a protégé of Cuvier) and Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire. Castelnau became the
French consul in Bahia after a four-year expedition from Rio to Lima and into the Amazon to Pará.
Castelnau,
Expedítion dans les parties centrales de l'Amerique du Sud
.
23.
Although hardly the only caucho barons, certainly the most famous were the Aranas, whose trad-
ing house was based in Manaus and already very active.
24.
It is possible that da Cunha's Indian was referring and pointing to the Amigos River, a tributary
of the Madre de Dios, on which many “friendly Indians” had been taken by
caucheiros
into the Purús.
Chapter 22
1.
Galvão and Silva Neto,
Crônica de uma tragédia inesquecível
, is a compilation of the records and
testimony (
autos
) of the murder trial of Dilermando. This chapter relies heavily on these documents,
which I will refer to as
Crônica
, followed by the page numbers.
2.
De Assis,
Conselho de guerra
.
3.
See especially the moving book by his closest friend then: Coelho Neto,
Livro de prata
.
4.
His letters are remarkably explicit on this point. See his letter to Francisco Escobar, Rio, April 10,
1908.
5.
Rabello,
Euclides da Cunha
; Ventura, Barreto de Santana, and Carvalho,
Retrato interrompido
;
Amory,
Euclides da Cunha
. His letters reveal some of this despair as well. See da Cunha to Oliveira
Lima, May 5, 1909.
6.
Ana Solon da Cunha in
Crônica
, 130.
7.
This type of fear is actually quite common and increasingly is listed among the symptoms of
posttraumatic stress, but it also has roots in other afflictions. In essence a person wakes up paralyzed
and perceives an evil or upsetting presence and a crushing sensation in the chest. This is called sleep
paralysis. Two brain systems contribute to sleep paralysis. One involves the inner brain structures that
monitor surroundings for threats and launch responses to perceived dangers. REM-based activation of
this system triggers a sense of an ominous entity nearby. Other neural areas that contribute to dream
imagery may draw on personal or cultural knowledge to flesh out the evil presence.
8.
Da Cunha to Oliveira Lima, Rio, May 5, 1909.
9.
Coelho Neto,
Livro de prata
.
10.
Lucinda Ratto in
Crônica
, 79.
11.
Ana Solon da Cunha in ibid., 130.
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