Wandering through the forest with an Indian guide, we reach an igarape or stream, where the lofty branches of the trees do not completely meet overhead, but where the opening is as yet of no great width.
The unimpressible natives stop their paddles as they are floating up an igarapeto listen to the dulcet strains.
The igarape still trended in a straight line, with only here and there a slight turning to one side or the other, preserving, however, the same general direction, which was northward.
Supposing that the igarape should not be trending in the same direction, but imperceptibly departing from it?
At first they fancied that the water might open again beyond the obstruction, but Munday, after penetrating a short distance among the tree-trunks, returned to declare his conviction that the igarape was at an end.
It was the igarape crossing the track which the guaribas were going.
When on their grand journeyings they come to a stream, or even an igarape like this, and find they can't leap from the trees on one side to those growing on the other, it is then necessary for them to make the bridge.
Fishes were absent, though from my knees as I scraped up the debris, I could almost have seen a little igarape in which dwelt scores of minnows.
Within walking distance behind me flowed the yellow waters of the Amazon, and the igarape from which the frog had called was even now feeling the tidal heave of the ocean.
They had chosen the narrowest part of the igarape to cross.
As this, however, would have delayed us greatly, we got Duppo to explain that we would gladly meet them again at any spot they might appoint, but that we would go down by the igarape in the canoe.
We turned off from the main stream, and ascended an igarape thickly shrouded by palms and other trees, completely shutting out the sky above us.
The igarapesoon widened out into a broad lake-like expanse.
It was nearly dark before we reached the entrance to the igarape down which we were to proceed.
I have injured my leg; and had I not been able to reach the igarape and construct this raft, I must have perished in the forest.
In some places the igarapewas so narrow, and the trees so completely joined overhead, that we could with difficulty discover our way, and were compelled to paddle at less speed to avoid running among the bushes at its borders.
He proposed going down to the igarape to bathe, and asked me to accompany him.
We kept along the left bank, not to run the risk of missing the entrance to the igarape of the recluse, as we called it.
The whole igarape was entirely shut out from view.
John advised that a breastwork should be thrown up, extending from the igarape across the path the Majeronas were likely to come by.
On reaching the igarapehe pointed down towards the great river.
I could not help thinking of the big cow-fish we had seen, and dreading lest one of them coming up the igarape might give the canoe an unintentional shove with his snout, which would most inevitably have upset her.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "igarape" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
