XXiV MEMOIR. 
is suspended a leathern bag with two pockets, one for my insect box, the 
other for powder and two sorts of shot; on my right side hangs my ‘ game 
bag,’ an ornamental affair, with red leather trappings and thongs to hang 
lizards, snakes, frogs, or large birds; one small pocket in this bag contains 
my caps; another, papers for wrapping up the delicate birds ; others for wads, 
cotton, box of powdered plaister, and a box with damped cork for the micro- 
lepidoptera; to my shirt is pinned my pincushion, with six sizes of pins.”’ 
In the following June he made a second trip up the Tocantins 
to Cameta, where he stayed a month, suffering in health from 
irregular living and fatigue. On September 5th he embarked 
in the Santa Maria, a two-masted vzgzlinga, on a voyage to the 
interior, following the main stream as far as Santarem and Obydos, 
in which district he subsequently spent three years. The speed of 
the current through the “narrows ” that lead to the main Amazons 
made progress slow and tedious before the introduction of steamers, 
and it was effected only by espia, or warping. 
‘‘Two men took a coil of rope, with small boat, to a distance ahead, 
secured one end of rope to a bough on river’s edge, then paddled back, 
bringing the other end of rope to the crew on board. These pulled up to 
the point ahead, the men on board gathering in the rope into the boat, and 
going away to repeat same process’’ (Journal, September 28th). 
It is superfluous to give a dry abstract of matters which are 
narrated with fulness and freshness in the Travels, and here it 
suffices to say that on reaching Barra, at the mouth of the Rio 
Negro, one thousand miles from Para, in March 1850, Bates and 
Wallace, who was accompanied by his younger brother, parted 
company, “ finding it more convenient to explore separate districts 
and collect independently.” Wallace took the northern parts and 
tributaries of the Amazons,* and Bates kept to the main stream, 
which, from the direction it seems to take at the fork of the Rio 
Negro, is called the Upper Amazons or the Solimoens. Different 
in character and climatic conditions from the Lower Amazons, it 
flows through a “ vast plain about a thousand miles in length, and 
five hundred or six hundred miles in breadth, covered with one 
uniform, lofty, impervious, and humid forest.” 
Bates had been robbed of a good portion of his money on his 
voyage to Obydos. 
* Mr. Wallace returned to England in 1852, and in 1853 published an account of his 
journey under the title of Zravels on the Amazon and Rio Negro. An excellent reprint 
of that book in cheap form was issued last year (1891). 
