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the country. It is to be remarked, however, that the Indian men all 
become sceptics after a little intercourse with the whites. The witch- 
craft of poor Cecilia was of a very weak quality. It consisted in 
throwing pinches of powdered bark of a certain tree and other substances 
into the fire whilst muttering a spell—a prayer repeated backwards— 
and adding the name of the person on whom she wished the incantation 
to operate. Some of the feiticeiras, however, play more dangerous 
tricks than this harmless mummery. They are acquainted with many 
poisonous plants, and although they seldom have the courage to ad- 
minister a fatal dose, sometimes contrive to convey to their victim 
sufficient to cause serious illness. The motive by which they are 
actuated is usually jealousy of other women in love matters. Whilst I 
resided in Santarem a case of what was called witchcraft was tried by 
the sub-delegado, in which a highly respectable white lady was the 
complainant. It appeared that some feiticeira had sprinkled a quantity 
of the acrid juice of a large arum on her linen as it was hanging out 
to dry, and it was thought this had caused a serious eruption under 
which the lady suffered. 
I seldom met with any of the larger animals in these excursions. We 
never saw a mammal of any kind on the campos; but tracks of three 
species were seen occasionally, besides those of the jaguar; these be- 
longed to a small tiger-cat, a deer, and an opossum, all of which animals 
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must have been very rare, and probably nocturnal in their habits, with 
the exception of the deer. I saw in the woods, on one occasion, a 
small flock of monkeys, and once had an opportunity of watching the 
movements of a sloth. 
The monkeys belonged to a very pretty and rare species, a kind of 
marmoset, I think the Hapale humeralifer described by Geoffroy St. 
Hilaire. I did not succeed in obtaining a specimen, but saw a living 
example afterwards in the possession of a shopkeeper at Santarem. It 
seems to occur nowhere else except in the dry woods bordering the 
campos in the interior parts of Brazil. The colours of its fur are beauti- 
fully varied ; the fore part of the body is white, with the hands gray ; 
the hind part black, with the rump and underside reddish-tawny ; the 
tail is banded with gray and black. Its face is partly naked and flesh- 
coloured, and the ears are fringed with long white hairs. ‘The specimen 
was not more than eight inches in length, exclusive of the tail. Alto- 
gether I thought it the prettiest species of its family I had yet seen. 
One would mistake it, at first sight, for a kitten, from its small size, 
varied colours, and the softness of its fur. It was a most timid creature, 
screaming and biting when any one attempted to handle it; it became 
familiar, however, with the people of the house a few days after it came 
into their possession. When hungry or uneasy it uttered a weak 
querulous cry, a shrill note, which was sometimes prolonged so as 
to resemble the stridulation of a grasshopper. The sloth was of the 
kind called by Cuvier Bradypus tridactylus, which is clothed with 
shaggy gray hair. ‘The natives call it, in the Tupi language, Ai ybyreté 
(in Portuguese, Pregui¢a da terra firme), or sloth of the mainland, to 
distinguish it from the Bradypus infuscatus, which has a long, black 
and tawny stripe between the shoulders, and is called Ai Ygapé (Pre- 
