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under the name of the Furo de Canomä, and in Martius’s map 
under that of the Furo de Albacaxis. What is called the R. Mauhé on 
the latter is the Paraná-mirí dos Limoés. I could hear of no “ Ilha de 
Tupinambarana,” though a river of this name is the most easterly tri- 
butary of the Ramos; nor is there any “ Ilha dos Ramos,” as indicated 
on Martius’s map, on the north shore of the Amazon. ue 
The Seringue-tree has long been known to exist abundantly on the | 
Rio Madeira, but it is only during the present year that it has been } 
found to grow on the Ramos in considerable quantity. | About two 
months before our visit three small Seringals had been opened a little 
higher up than the mouth of the Maué, and late on the evening of 
the 17th of November we reached one of these, belonging to Capitaô 
Pedro de Macedo of Saracá (or Silves, as it is called on the maps). 
A considerable opening had been made in the forest to erect the ne- 
cessary huts, and to plant a few cabbages and water-melons. Amongst 
the trees was an enormous Samaiima (Eriodendron Samaüma, Mart.), 
divided from near the base into two trunks, of which the stoutest had 
been cut off at a height of about fifteen feet. In the morning I took a 
sketch of it, and measured its circumference, which was eighty-five feet 
at the lowest part, where the tape would ply of itself, that is, from one 
to three feet from the ground; but had the tape been applied to the 
recesses of the sapopemas (as the buttresses are called) the circumfe- 
rence would have been much increased. 
We found the Capitaô a very hospitable and intelligent man, and 
were glad to accept his invitation to join him at supper and breakfast 
on game caught near his seringal, including Porco do mato, Macaco 
barrigudo, and Mutún—the last a bird much resembling a turkey, good - 
eating, but rather dry ; the monkey is rather insipid, and the pig very 
savoury, though with a thick tough skin. After breakfast he accom- 
panied us into the forest, and showed us the Seringue-trees, and the L 
mode of collecting the milk. A track had been cut to each tree, as 
also to adjacent flats of Urucurf palm (Cocos coronata, Mart.), which, 
euriously enough, is almost invariably found along with the Seringue, - 
and whose fruit is considered essential to the proper preparation of 
India-rubber. A stout sipó is wound round the trunk of the Seringue, 
beginning at the base and extending upwards about as high as a man 
can reach, and making in this space two or three turns. This sipó 
supports a narrow channel made of clay, down which the milk flows as 
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