CHAPTER 11. 



PARA — continued. 



The swampy forests of Pani — A Portuguese landed proprietor— Country 

 house at Nazareth— Life of a Naturalist under the equator — The 

 drier virgin forests — Magoary — Retired creeks — Aborigines. 



After having resided about a fortnight at Mr. 

 Miller's rocinha we heard of another similar country- 

 house to be let, much better situated for our purpose, 

 in the village of Nazareth, a mile and a half from the 

 city and close to the forest. The owner was an old 

 Portuguese gentleman named Danin, who lived at his 

 tile manufactory at the mouth of the Una, a small 

 river lying two miles below Para. We resolved to walk 

 to his place through the forest, a distance of three miles, 

 although the road was said to be scarcely passable at 

 this season of the year, and the Una much more easily 

 accessible by boat. We were glad, however, of this early 

 opportunity of traversing the rich swampy forest which 

 we had admired so much from the deck of the ship ; so, 

 about eleven o'clock one sunny morning, after j)rocuring 

 the necessary information about the road, we set off in 

 that direction. This part of the forest afterwards became 

 one of my best hunting-gi'ounds. I will narrate the 

 incidents of the walk, giving my first impressions and 



