212 A JOURNEY IN BRAZIL. 
CHAPTER VII. 
LIFE IN TEFFE. 
ASPECT OF TEFFE. SITUATION. DESCRIPTION OF HOUSES. FISHING EXCUR- 
SION. ASTONISHING VARIETY OF FISHES. ACARA. SCARCITY OF LABOR- 
ERS. OUR INDOORS MAN. BRUNO. ALEXANDRINA. PLEASANT WALKS. 
MANDIOCA-SHED IN THE FOREST. INDIAN ENCAMPMENT ON THE 
BEACH. EXCURSION TO FISHING LODGE ON THE SOLIMOENS. AMAZONIAN 
BEACHES. BREEDING-PLACES OF TURTLES, FISHES, ETC. ADROITNESS OF 
INDIANS IN FINDING THEM. DESCRIPTION OF A " SITIO." INDIAN CLAY- 
EATERS. CUIEIRA-TREE. FISH HUNT. FOREST LAKE. WATER BIRDS. 
SUCCESS IN COLLECTING. EVENING SCENE IN SlTIO. ALEXANDRINA AS 
"AIDE SCIENTIFIQUE." FISH ANECDOTE. RELATIONS BETWEEN FISHES 
AS SHOWN BY THEIR EMBRYOLOGY. NOTE UPON THE MARINE CHARACTER 
OF THE AMAZONIAN FAUN.E. ACARA. NEWS FROM THE PARTIES IN THE 
INTERIOR. RETURN OF PARTY FROM THE ICA. PREPARATIONS FOR DE- 
PARTURE. NOTE ON GENERAL RESULT OF SCIENTIFIC WORK IN TEFFE. 
WAITING FOR THE STEAMER. SKETCH OF ALEXANDRINA. MOCUIM. 
THUNDER-STORM. REPIQUETE. GEOLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS. 
September 'Eltli. Of all the little settlements we have 
seen on the Amazons, Teffe looks the most smiling and 
pleasant. Just now the town, or, as it should rather be 
called, the village, stands, as I have said, above a broad 
sand-beach ; in the rainy season, however, we are told that 
the river covers this beach completely, and even encroaches 
on the fields beyond, coming almost to the threshold of some 
of the dwellings. The houses are generally built of mud, 
plastered over and roofed with tiles, or thatched with palm. 
Almost all have a little ground about them, enclosed in a 
picket fence, and planted with orange-trees and different 
kinds of palms, Cocoa-nut, Assais, and Pupunhas or 
peach-palms. The latter bears, in handsome clusters, a 
fruit not unlike the peach in size and coloring ; it lias a 
mealy character when cooked, and is very palatable, eaten 
