CONTENTS. 



FIRST JOURNEY. 



CHAPTER I. 



PAGE 



Object of the Wanderings— D&raevssa. R.— Saba— Toucan— Forest Trees 

 —Parasites— Bush-rope — Red monkey — "Wild animals— Sloths — 

 Venomous snakes — Lizards — Bell-bird — Houtou — Insects — Dog 

 poisoned with Wourali — Falls — Essequibo R. — Rapid decay — Falls 

 of the Essequibo — Macoushia — A white recluse — The "Watermamma 



A savage financier — The Jabiru — Ants' nests — Fort St. Joachim 



— Lake Parima 87 — 125 



CHAPTER n. 



The Macoushi Lidians — Poison vendors — apparent failure of poison — 

 Collecting materials for wourali-poison— Preparing the poison — 

 Superstitions— The blow-pipe gun— The Ourah- The Samourah- 

 Silk-grass — Acuero fruit — Coucourite palm — Wild cotton — Arrows 

 — Quivers — Jaw of Pirai — Packing the arrows — Cotton basket — 

 Gun sight made of Acouri teeth— Poisoned fowl— Suspending the 

 gims — The bow — Ingenious arrows — Small quivers — A wild hog shot 

 — Utilization of indigenous products 126—139 



CHAPTER m. 



Operation of the Wourali — Its effects on the Ai, or Three-toed Sloth — 

 Death resembling sleep — A poisoned Ox — Poison proportionate to 

 size of animal — Alleged antidotes — ^An Indian killed by his own 

 arrow — Ligatures and the knife — Descent of the Essequibo — Skill 

 of the boatman — The Buccaneers — Tertian ague — -Experiments with 

 "Wourali — Value of a ligature — Artificial respiration — Long life and 

 quiet death of Wourali — When good King Arthur ruled this land — - 

 Return of health 140—147 



Remarks 148 — 153 



SECOND JOURNEY. 



CHAPTER I. 



From Liverpool to Pernambuco — Stormy petrels — Tropical zoology — 

 Flying-fish — Bonito, Albicore, and " Dolphin " — Frigate bird — • 

 Arrival at Pernambuco — The expelled Jesuit — Pombal, the Captain- 

 General — Southey's history of Brazil — Botanical garden — Sangredo 

 Buey — Rattlesnake — Narrow escape — Rainy^ — Sail for Cayenne— 

 Shark-catching 154-168 



