CONTENTS; 



FIRST JOURNEY. 



CHAPTEE I. 



PAGE 



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

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

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

 poLSoned with Wourali — Falls — Essequibo E. — Eapid 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 



CHAPTEE 11. 



The Maeoushi Indians — 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 

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

 —Utilization of indigenous products 126—139 



CHAPTEE III. 



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— 

 Eeturn of health 140—147 



Eemauks ... . 143—153 



SECOND JOURNEY. 



CHAPTEE I, 



From Liverpool to Pernambuco — Stormy petrels — Tropical zoology — 

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

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

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

 Buey — Rattlesnake — Narrow escape — Eainy — Sail for Cayenne — 

 ■ Shark-catching • 154-168 



