CONTENTS OF VOL. II. 



CHAPTER I. 



SANTAKEM. 



Situation of Santarem — Manners and customs of the inhabitants 

 — Trade — Climate — Leprosy — Historical sketch — Grassy campos 

 and woods — Excursions to Mapiri, Mahica, and Irura, with 

 sketches of their Natural History ; Palms, wild fruit-trees, 

 Mining Wasps, Mason Wasps, Bees, Sloths, and Marmoset 

 Monkeys — Natural History of Termites or White Ants . . 1 



CHAPTER II. 



VOYAGE UP THE TAPAJOS. 



Preparations for voyage — First day's sail — Mode of arranging 

 money-matters and remittance of collections in the interior — 

 Loss of boat — Altar do Chad — Excursion in forest — Valuable 

 timber — Modes of obtaining fish — Difficulties with crew — Arrival 

 at Aveyros — Excursions in the neighbourhood — White Cebus 

 and habits and dispositions of Cebi Monkeys — Tame Parrot — 

 Missionary settlement — Enter the Kiver Cupari — Adventure with 

 Anaconda — Smoke-dried Monkey — Boa-constrictor — Village of 

 Mundurucu Indians, and incursion of a wild tribe — Falls of 

 the Cupari — Hyacinthine Macaw — Re-emerge into the broad 

 Tapajos — Descent of river to Santarem . . . . .71 



CHAPTER III. 



THE UPPER AMAZONS— VOYAGE TO EGA. 



Departure from Barra — First day and night on the Upper Ama- 

 zons — Desolate appearance of river in the flood season — Cucama 



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