Excerpt from Amazonian Tortoise MythsTo the aid and sound advice of this friend, I owe much of the success of my journey, as an attaché of the Thayer Expedition in 1865 and 1866.After my return to the United States, I planned with him my Expedition to the Brazilian coast in 1867, the accomplishment of which would not have been possible but for his generous pecuniary aid.In the preparation of a volume on the Geology and Physical Geography of Brazil, I was helped in many ways by the same friend, who even went so far as to make, under my direction, a journey in the Province of Sao Paulo, for the purpose of ascertaining the gen eral geological structure of this part of the Brazilian plateau. His carefully made observations have since been verified.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works. - from Amzon