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one of his children died. At length he heard of a small coasting vessel 
going to Cayenne, so he embarked and got thereby another stage 
nearer the end of his journey. A short time after reaching Cayenne he 
shipped in a schooner that was going to Para, or rather the island of 
Marajo, for a cargo of cattle. He had now fixed himself, after all his 
wanderings, in a healthy and fertile little nook on the banks of a rivulet 
near Caripi, built himself a log hut, and planted a large patch of 
mandioca and Indian corn. He seemed to be quite happy, but his 
wife complained much of the want of wholesome food, meat and wheaten, 
bread. I asked the children whether they liked the country; they 
shook their heads and said they would rather be in Illinois. Petzell 
told me that his Indian neighbours treated him very kindly; one or 
other of them called almost every day to see how he was getting on, 
and they had helped him in many ways. He hada high opinion of 
the Tapuyos, and said, “If you treat them well, they will go through 
fire to serve you.” 
Petzell and his family were expert insect collectors, so I employed 
them at this work during my stay at Caripi. The daily occurrences 
here were after a uniform fashion. I rose with the dawn, took a cup 
of coffee, and then sallied forth after birds. At ten I breakfasted, and 
devoted the hours from ten until three to entomology. The evening 
was occupied in preserving and storing my captures. Petzell and I 
sometimes undertook long excursions, occupying the whole day. Our 
neighbours used to bring me all the quadrupeds, birds, reptiles, and 
shells they met with, and so altogether I was enabled to acquire a good 
collection of the productions of the district. 
The first few nights I was much troubled by bats. The room where 
I slept had not been used for many months, and the roof was open to 
the tiles and rafters. ‘The first night I slept soundly, and did not per- 
ceive anything unusual; but on the next I was aroused about midnight 
by the rushing noise made by vast hosts of bats sweeping about the 
room. ‘The air was alive with them; they had put out the lamp, and 
when I relighted it the place appeared blackened with the impish multi- 
tudes that were whirling round and round. After I had laid about well 
with a stick for a few minutes they disappeared amongst the tiles, but 
when all was still again they returned, and once more extinguished the 
light. I took no further notice of them, and went to sleep. The next 
night several got into my hammock ; I seized them as they were crawl- 
ing over me, and dashed them against the wall. The next morning I 
found a wound, evidently caused by a bat, on my hip. This was rather 
unpleasant, so I set to work with the negroes, and tried to exterminate 
them. I shot a great many as they hung from the rafters, and the 
negroes having mounted with ladders to the roof outside, routed out 
from beneath the eaves many hundreds of them, including young 
broods. There were altogether four species—two belonging to the 
genus Dysopes, one to Phyllostoma, and the fourth to Glossophaga. 
By far the greater number belonged to the Dysopes perotis, a species 
having very large ears, and measuring two feet from tip to tip of the 
wings. The Phyllostoma was a small kind, of a dark-grey colour, 
streaked with white down the back, and having a leaf-shaped fleshy 
