E-text prepared by Melissa McDaniel and and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive (https://archive.org) Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 57771-h.htm or 57771-h.zip: (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/57771/57771-h/57771-h.htm) or (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/57771/57771-h.zip) Images of the original pages are available through Internet Archive. See https://archive.org/details/explorationofval21854hern Project Gutenberg has the other volume of this work. Part I: see http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/57756 Transcriber's note: Text enclosed by underscores is in italics (_italics_). [Illustration: LLAMAS TRAVERSING THE ANDES LADEN WITH SILVER. By Lieut. L. Gibbon U. S. N. Lith. of P.S. Duval & Co. Phil.] 33d CONGRESS,} HO. OF REPS. {EXECUTIVE, 1st Session.} { No. 53. EXPLORATION OF THE VALLEY OF THE AMAZON, MADE UNDER DIRECTION OF THE NAVY DEPARTMENT, BY WM. LEWIS HERNDON AND LARDNER GIBBON, LIEUTENANTS UNITED STATES NAVY. PART II. BY LT. LARDNER GIBBON. WASHINGTON: A. O. P. NICHOLSON, PUBLIC PRINTER. 1854. MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, TRANSMITTING THE SECOND PART OF LIEUTENANT HERNDON'S REPORT OF THE EXPLORATION OF THE VALLEY OF THE AMAZON. JANUARY 6, 1854.—Resolved, That there be printed, for the use of the members of the House, ten thousand extra copies of the report of the Secretary of the Navy communicating the reports of the exploration of the river Amazon and its tributaries, made by Lieutenants Herndon and Gibbon, with the accompanying maps and plates. APRIL 13, 1854.—Resolved, That there be printed twenty thousand additional copies of the reports of the surveys and explorations of the river Amazon, with the plates and maps accompanying, by Lieutenants Herndon and Gibbon—two hundred and fifty copies for distribution by Lieutenant Herndon, and two hundred and fifty copies by Lieutenant Gibbon, and the remainder for the use of the members of the House. To the Senate and House of Representatives: I herewith transmit a communication from the Secretary of the Navy, accompanied by the second part of Lieut. Herndon's Report of the Exploration of the Valley of the Amazon and its tributaries, made by him, in connexion with Lieut. Lardner Gibbon, under instructions from the Navy Department. FRANKLIN PIERCE. WASHINGTON, February 10, 1854. NAVY DEPARTMENT, February 10, 1854. To the PRESIDENT.