iv CONTENTS. 



Indians — Mental condition of Indians — Squalls — Manatee — 

 Forest — Floating pumice-stones from the Andes — Falling banks 

 — Ega and its inhabitants — Daily life of a Naturalist at Ega — 

 Customs, trade, &c. — The four seasons of the Upper Amazons . 153 



CHAPTER IV. 



EXCURSIONS IN THE NEIGHBOURHOOD OF EGA. 



The river Teffe — Rambles through groves on the beach — Excursion 

 to the house of a Passe chieftain — Character and customs of 

 the Passe* tribe — First excursion to the sand islands of the 

 Solimoens — Habits of great river-turtle — Second excursion — 

 Turtle-fishing in the inland pools — Third excursion — Hunt- 

 ing-rambles with, natives in the forest — Return to Ega . . 225 



CHAPTER V. 



ANIMALS OF THE NEIGHBOURHOOD OF EGA. 



Scarlet-faced Monkeys — Parauacii Monkey — Owl-faced Night-apes 

 — Marmosets — Jupurd, — Comparison of Monkeys of the New 

 "World with those of the Old — Bats — Birds — Cuvier's Toucan 

 — Curl-crested Toucan — Insects — Pendulous Cocoons — Foraging 

 Ants— Blind Ants 305 



CHAPTER VI. 



EXCURSIONS BEYOND EGA. 



Steamboat travelling on the Amazons — Passengers — Tunantins — 

 Caishana Indians — The Jutahi — Indian tribes on the Jutahi and 

 the Junia — The Sapo — Maraud Indians — Fonte Boa — Journey to 

 St. Paulo — Tucuna Indians — Illness— Descent to Para — Changes 

 at Para — Departure for England 367 



