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CHAPTER VI. 
LIFE AT MANAOS. VOYAGE FROM MANAOS TO TABATINGA. 
ARRIVAL, AT MANAOS. MEETING OF THE SOLIMOENS WITH THE Rio XEGRO. - 
DOMESTICATED AT MANAOS. -- RETURN OF PARTY FROM THE TAPAJOZ. - 
GENEROSITY OF GOVERNMENT. - - WALKS. - - WATER- CARRIERS. INDIAN 
SCHOOL. LEAVE MANAOS. LIFE ON BOARD THE STEAMER. BARKEIRA 
DAS CUDAJAS. CoARI. WOODING. APPEARANCE OF BANKS. GEOLOGI- 
CAL CONSTITUTION. FOREST. SUMAUMEIRA-TREE. ARROW-GRASS. RED 
DRIFT CLIFFS. SAND-BEACHES. INDIAN HUTS. TURTLE-HUNTING. 
DRYING FISH. TEFFE. DOUBTS ABOUT THE JOURNEY. UNEXPECTED AD- 

VISER. FONTE BOA. GEOLOGICAL CHARACTER OF BANKS. LAKES. 
FLOCKS OF WATER BIRDS. TONANTINS. PICTURESQUE GROUPING OF IN- 
DIANS. SAN PAOLO. LAND-SLIDES. CHARACTER OF SCENERY. SCANTY 
POPULATION. ANIMAL LIFE. TABATINGA. ASPECT OF THE SETTLE- 
MENT. MOSQUITOES. LEAVE ONE OF THE PARTY TO MAKE COLLECTIONS. 
ON OUR WAY DOWN THE RIVER. PARTY TO THE RIVERS ICA AND HYUTAHY. 
AGROUND IN THE AMAZONS. ARRIVAL AT TEFFE. 
September btJi. Manaos. Yesterday morning we entered 
the Rio Negro and saw the meeting of its calm, black waters 
with the rushing yellow current of the Amazons, or the 
Solimoens, as the Upper Amazon is called. They are well 
named by the Indians the "living and the dead river," for 
the Solimoens pours itself down upon the dark stream of 
the Rio Negro with such a vital, resistless force, that the 
latter does indeed seem like a lifeless thing by its side. 
It is true, that at this season, when the water in both 
the rivers is beginning to subside, the Rio Negro seems 
to offer some slight resistance to the stronger river ; it 
struggles for a moment with the impetuous flood which 
overmasters it, and, though crowded up against the shore, 
continues its course for a little distance side by side with 
the Solimoens. But at the season when the waters are 
highest, the latter closes the mouth of the Rio Negro so 
