In Search of Human Heads

the long version

Ernest T. Morris was known as America's "Boy Naturalist" or "Boy Explorer." He made seven expeditions to South America between 1875 and 1884, the first of which was made when he was nineteen years old. He was a special correspondent for the New York World, writing travel narratives about flora and fauna of the Amazon. This manuscript (starting at Chapter IV) details his epic trip via canoe up a score of cascades of the Rio Tapajos and the flooded Rio Cururu to visit the villages of the Campineiros, an isolated sub-group of the Munduruku Indians.