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that there was just room for a man to walk freely be- 

 tween them. There was a canoe inshore, with a man 

 and a woman : the man, who was hooting with all his 

 might, told us in passing that his son was lost in the 

 " aningal ' ' (arum-grove) . He had strayed whilst walking 

 ashore, and the father had now been an hour waiting 

 for him in vain. 



About one o'clock we again stopped at the mouth of 

 a little creek. It was now intensely hot. Raimundo 

 said deer were found here, so he borrowed my gun, as 

 being a more effective weapon than the wretched arms 

 called Lazarinos, which he, in common with all the 

 native hunters, used, and which sell at Para for seven 

 or eight shillmgs apiece. Raimundo and Joaquim now 

 stripped themselves quite naked, and started off in 

 different directions through the forest, going naked in 

 order to move with less noise over the carpet of dead 

 leaves, amongst which they stepped so stealthily that 

 not the slightest rustle could be heard. The dogs 

 remained in the canoe, in the neighbourhood of which 

 I employed myself two hours entomologising. At the 

 end of that time my two companions returned, having 

 met with no game whatever. 



We now embarked on our return voyage. Raimundo 

 cut two slender poles, one for a mast and the other for 

 a sprit : to these he rigged a sail we had brought in 

 the boat, for we were to return by the open river, and 

 expected a good wind to carry us to Caripi. As soon 

 as we got out of the channel we began to feel the wind — 

 the sea-breeze, which here makes a clean sweep from 

 the Atlantic. Our boat was very small and heavily 



