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a green fringe to the path : it will then become as 

 beautiful a woodland road as the old one was. A 

 naturalist will have, henceforward, to go farther from 

 the city to find the glorious forest scenery which lay 

 so near in 1848, and work much more laboriously 

 than was formerly needed, to make the large collections 

 which Mr. Wallace and I succeeded in doing in the 

 neighbourhood of Para. 



June 2, 1859. — At length, on the second of June, 

 I left Para, probably for ever ; embarking in a North 

 American trading-vessel, the " Frederick Demming," 

 for New York, the United States' route being the 

 quickest as well as the pleasantest way of reaching 

 England. My extensive private collections were divided 

 into three portions and sent by three separate ships, 

 to lessen the risk of loss of the whole. /On the even- 

 ing of the third of June, I took a last view of the 

 glorious forest for which I had so much love, and to 

 explore which I had devoted so many years. The 

 saddest hours I ever recollect to have spent were those 

 of the succeeding night when, the mameluco pilot 

 having left us free of the shoals and out of sight of 

 land though within the mouth of the river at anchor 

 waiting for the wind, I felt that the last link which 

 connected me with the land of so many pleasing 

 recollections was broken. The Paraenses, who are fully 

 aware of the attractiveness of their country, have an alli- 

 terative proverb, " Queni vai para (o) Para para," " He 

 who goes to Para stops there," and I had often thought I 

 should myself have been added to the list of examples. 



