770 ME. H. E. AUSTEN ON A KECENT ZOOLOGICAL [June 16, 



the time occupied by the cable-operations, with the exception of 

 Santareui, where we remained for four days and a half. We left 

 Manaos on the downward voyage on Feb. 15th, preceded two days 

 earlier by Mr. Pickard Cambridge, who had decided to return to 

 Santarem in order to stay for a fortnight in the forest some nine 

 miles inliind from that town, at a cotlage which had been niosb 

 kindly placed at our disposal by Mr. Wallace, an -American trader. 

 After due consideration I had decided to remain with the ship, in 

 order to visit other localities near the moutli of the river, and so 

 make the most of our opportunities by dividing our forces. On 

 the downward voyage we ran aground in mid- stream near Monte 

 Alegre, and remained there for four days before getting otf. Un- 

 fortunatefy I was suffering at the time from a swollen foot, and 

 being scarcely able to walk I was unable to profit by this delay. 

 Alter another day's collecting at Gurupil, we reached Macapa on 

 the northern shore on Feb. 24, and I was enabled to collect for a 

 day at a locality which, so far as I am aware, had not been visited 

 before by a European naturalist. Thence, after calling at Chaves, 

 in the island of Marajo,and again at Breves, we returned to some- 

 where near our old anchorage in the Para Eiver on March 6th, and 

 the expedition was nearly at an end. Connections, however, still 

 had lo be made witli a few places in the vicinity of Parii, and, as it 

 WHS expected that these operations would take at least a fortnight, 

 I resolved to avail myself of an opportunity which occurred on the 

 following day of going to stay for a time at Mosqueiro, a little 

 place seventeen miles below Para on the same shore, in order to 

 make the utmost of the time that still remained for collecting. I 

 remained here until March 16th, when the 'Faraday' arrived, and 

 1 returned in her to our anchorage below Para. During the second 

 half of my stay at Mosqueiro work was much interfered w ith by rain. 

 Mr. Pickard-Cambridge, who had already returned from Santai'em, 

 now rejoined tho ship, and the next few days were occupied mainly 

 in preparations for llio homeward voyage. Wo eailoci from i'aifi 

 at 6 A..M on March 24th, and reached Graveseud on tiie morning 

 of April 14th. 



On referring to my diary I find that, although we spent rather 

 more than eleven weeks (79 days) on the Amazon and the Para 

 Eiver, owing to the special conditions of the expedition, the 

 actual number of days on which I was able to collect ashore 

 amounted in the aggregate to only five weeks (S5 days'). Then, 

 again, in considering results, it must be remembered that in our 

 flying visits to the various localities alread3' mentioned between 

 Para and Manaos we were often hampered by much uncertainty 

 as to the exact time for which the ship would remain, and by the 

 necebsity for returning to the shore at a particular moment in 

 order to catch the launch or boat going off to the ship. On the 

 other hand, the days spent in steaming from place to place, and 

 others on which we were unable to land, were by no means wasted, 

 since the numbers of insects which were attracted by the ship's 

 electric lights at night kept me pretty busily occupied. 



