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 | | Were it not for Pedro Teixeira, most denizens of Amazonia today might be speaking Spanish, English, French, Dutch, or even Irish, instead of the noble tongue of the Lusíadas. |
 | | The cap was given to me over twenty years ago by the skipper of a river gunboat based in Manaus, in remembrance of my joining a voyage that promoted “civic action” along the Solimões, helping settlers cope with illness, fixing broken-down generators, and repairing radios. |
 | | Born in 1570 in Coimbra, Portugal, he was nearly seventy when he led an expedition across South America, over six thousand miles by canoe and foot from the mouth of the Amazon River to the crest of the high Andes. |
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