02271cam a22003971 4500 9132713 cr ||||||||||| 751125s1875 pauaf 000 0 eng 20260501185507.3 02029950 DLC DLC DLC F2546 .K29 Keller, Franz, 1835-1890. The Amazon and Madeira rivers : sketches and descriptions from the note-book of an explorer / by Franz Keller, engineer. New ed., with sixty-eight illustrations on wood. Philadelphia : J.B. Lippincott and co., 1875. xviii, 240 p. : ill., plates : 27 cm. Franz Keller was a German engineer who spent 17 years in Brazil. In 1867, Keller and his father were commissioned by the minister of public works in Rio de Janeiro to explore the Madeira River in order to determine the feasibility of building a railroad to circumvent rapids that made steamship navigation impossible on part of the river. This book, published some seven years later, describes the river and its rapids, the native tribes that Keller and his party encountered, and the animals and vegetation of the virgin forest of the Amazon and the Madeira rivers. Keller's expedition extended into eastern Bolivia. It devotes a chapter to the Mojo Indians of that region and the history of their interactions with the Jesuit missions dating from the late 17th century. World Digital Library. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Also available in digital form. Indians of South America Brazil. Mojo Indians. Amazon River. Brazil Description and travel. Madeira River (Brazil and Bolivia) http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gdc/gcbr.001 View online content for this title. http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gdc/scd0001.00103360006 7 cbc origres u ncip 19 y-gencatlg wr11 2025-02-10 LCAP batch update 2025-06-02-04:00: LCAPM-848 ascbr/gcbrlc/tx intldl gdc wdl gdc/wdl massdig sloan pmpull ammem c-GenColl F2546 .K29 Copy 1 OCLCREP