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plainant. 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 occa- 

 sionally besides those of the Jaguar : these belonged to 

 a small tiger cat, a deer, and an opossum ; all of which 

 animals 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 beautifully 

 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, ex- 

 clusive of the tail. Altogether 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 



