Exploration of the Valley of the Amazon, made under direction of the Navy Department : part I / by WM. Lewis Herndon and Lardner Gibbon, lieutenants United States Navy, part I by Lieut Herndon

The desire expressed the department for an early report of my exploration of the amazon, and the general interest manifested in the public mind with regard to the same, have induced me to lay before you at once as full an account of our proceedings as can be made before the return of my companion. T...