CONTENTS. 



FIRST JOURNEY. 

 CHAPTER I. 



PAGE 



Object of the Wanderings — Demerara E. — Saba — Toucan — Forest Trees 

 — Parasites — Bush-rope — Eed monkey — ^Wild animals — Sloths — 

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

 poisoned with Wourali — Falls — Essequibo E. — Eapid decay — Falls 

 of the Essequibo — Macoushia — A white recluse — The Vatermamma 

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

 ^Lake Parima ... 87 — 125 



CHAPTEE II. 



The Maooushi Indians — Poison vendors — apparent failure of poison — 

 Collecting materials for wourali-poisou — Preparing the poison — 

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

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

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

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

 guns — The bow^Ingenious arrows — Small quivers — A wild hog shot 

 — Utilization of indigenous products 126— 139 



CHAPTER III. 



Operation of the Wourali — Its effects on the Aj, 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 



Ekmabks 148 — 153 



SECOND JOURNEY. 



CHAPTER I, 



From Liverpool to Pemambuoo — Stormy petrels — Tropical zoology — 

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

 Anival at Pemambuco — The expelled Jesuit — ^Pombal, the Captain- 

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

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

 ^hayk-catching 154 — 16§ 



