Explorations of the highlands of the Brazil; with a full account of the gold and diamond mines. Also, canoeing down 1500 miles of the great river São Francisco, from Sabará to the sea. By Captain Richard F. Burton, F.R.G.S. etc. Vol II.
‘Just a good person’: Community remembers Aaron Salter Jr., Buffalo mass shooting victim (spectrumlocalnews.com) “Just a good person. Good natured, good hearted individual. Plain, simple, down to earth, take care of business, loving Aaron,” said Barbara Lark, the first deputy commissioner for Buffalo Police as she looked back on the kind of person Salter was.
Wednesday, August 7, 1867. — We walked down to the Porto da Ponte Grande, where the ajojo or raft lay. I never saw such an old Noah’s Ark, with its standing awning, a floating gipsy “pál,” some seven feet high and twenty-two long, and pitched like a tent upon two hollowed logs. The river must indeed be safe, if this article can get down without accident.