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of the //aiiba have a very fine scent, which the wood retains for many ` 
years, but it has nothing resinous in it. 
In a walk afterwards up the shore of the Caipurü, I got some 
trees in flower that were new to me, and some mosses aud Hepatice 
in fruit. 
Besides the timber-trees above-mentioned, the following grow in the 
forests of the Caipurü, but at such a distance that I was unable to 
visit them :—Uaitd, a tree of large size, but the heartwood alone is 
used, and is in great request for walking-canes and other fancy articles ; 
Pardcu-uba, a tree with very hard heartwood, coloured like old 
mahogany, and with a delightful odour: it is excellent for cabinet- 
work, and chips of it are used for making a medicinal tea; Jutaki, a 
large tree with hard but not very durable timber : the bark is employed 
for making canoes, and the fruit is eatable. 
Donna Ceesaria treated us to-day to a porco do mato for dinner, 
beautifully cooked, and affording us a delightful change from piraruci, 
which was like eating so much dry pine-board. She and all her house- 
hold were very curious about the object of our collections. I explained 
it as well as I could, but the senhora was not satisfied, and seemed to 
have arrived at the conviction that my dried specimens were intended 
as patterns for fabries of cotton and silk, England being always 
associated in the minds of these Brazilians with the idea of printed 
stuffs. I showed her, through my lens, some of those beautiful lichens 
which, in this country, grow on the leaves of trees;—** O Dios!” 
exclaimed she to her women who were standing around, ** em Ingalaterra 
tudo isto vai ser pintado em chita!” (in England all this will be painted 
on calico!) Her last command to me, on parting the following 
morning, was to send her one of the handsomest prints that our 
English manufacturers should devise from the materials I had collected 
near her fazenda! In the evening she led me through the establish- - 
ment, and showed me the comfortable cottages of the slaves—the 
cooking-house and apparatus— the mandiocca-furnaces, &c.— the 
process of soap-making—and, above all, I was most obliged to her 
for setting me right on the subject of making the Caraipé pottery. 
When I visited at Caripi a fabrica of this ware, I understood that the 
bark in its simple state was pounded down and mixed with the clay; - 
but it is quite possible that my imperfect knowledge of Portuguese 
at that time prevented my understanding the explanation that was 
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