442 A JOURNEY IN BRAZIL. 
CHAPTEE XIY. 
CEARA. 
LEAVING PARA. FAREWELL TO THE AMAZONS. EASE OF TRAVELLING os 
THE AMAZONS. -- ROUGH PASSAGE. ARRIVAL AT CEARA'. DIFFICULTY 
OF LANDING. ASPECT OF THE TOWN. RAINY SEASON. CONSEQUENT 
SICKLINESS. OUR PURPOSE IN STOPPING AT CEARA. REPORT OF DR. 
FELICE ABOUT MORAINES. -- PREPARATIONS FOR JOURNEY INTO THE INTE- 
RIOR. DIFFICULTIES AND DELAYS IN GETTING OFF. -- ON THE WAY. 
NIGHT AT ARANCHO. BAD ROADS. CARNAUBA PALM. ARRIVAL AT 
MONGUBA. KIND RECEPTION BY SENHOR FRANKLIN DE LIMA. GEOLOGY 
OF THE REGION. EVENING GAMES AND AMUSEMENTS. PACATUBA. 
TRACES OF ANCIENT GLACIERS. SERRA OF ARATANHA. CLIMB UP THE 
SERRA. HOSPITALITY OF SENHOR DA COSTA. PICTURESQUE VIEWS. 
THE SERTAO. DROUGHT AND RAINS. EPIDEMICS. RETURN TO MON- 
GUBA. DETAINED BY EXTRAORDINARY RAINS. RETURN TO CEARA. - 
OVERFLOWED ROADS. DIFFICULTY OF FORDING. ARRIVAL AT CEARA. 
LIBERALITY OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE PROVINCE TOWARD THE EXPEDI- 
TION. 
April 2d. Ceara, We left Para on the 26th of March, 
In the evening, feeling for the first time that we were indeed 
bidding good by to the Amazons. Our pleasant voyages on 
its yellow waters, our canoe excursions on its picturesque 
lakes and igarapes, our lingerings in its palm-thatched cot- 
tages, belonged to the past ; except in memory, our Amazo- 
nian travels were over. When we entered upon them, what 
vague anticipations, what visions of a new and interesting 
life, not, as we supposed, without its dangers and anxieties, 
were before us. So little is known, even in Brazil, of the 
Amazons, that we could obtain only very meagre and, usually, 
rather discouraging information concerning our projected 
journey. In Rio, if you say you are going to ascend their 
great river, your Brazilian friends look at you with compas- 
sionate wonder. You are threatened with sickness, with in- 
