Citations:piroróco

English citations of piroróco

1854, “The” Athenaeum: Journal of Literature, Science, the Fine Arts, Music and the Drama, page 79:
On the Amazon itself he encountered the "piroróco" which he describes as follows:– “We had gone in shore at a sugar estate to wait for the tide, when the agent told us we had better put out further into the stream, as the piroróco beat there.
1854, The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, page 181:
"Piroróco" or Bore that occurs in the Guamá River at Spring Tides. — About thirty miles above Para the piroróco commences. There was formerly an island in the river at this point, but it is said to have been completely washed away by the ...
1881, Hermann Joseph Klein (original author), Land, sea and sky; or, Wonders of life and nature, tr. from the Germ. [Die Erde und ihr organisches Leben] of H.J. Klein and Dr. Thomé, by J. Minshull, page 87, image caption:
The Piroroco on the Amazon.
1889, Alfred Russel Wallace, Travels on the Amazon and Rio Negro, page 77:
Chapter V. The Guamá and Capim Rivers. Natterer's Hunter, Luiz — Birds and Insects — Prepare for a Journey - First Sight of the Piroróco — St. Domingo — Senhor Calistro — Slaves and Slavery — Anecdote — Cane-field — Journey into the Forest — [...]