RIVER IGUARACU. 



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as little inconvenience as that which I have re- 

 lated. When I mentioned to some of my neigh- 

 bours the slight consequences of the bite, they 

 ascribed it to the state of the moon. 



In the month of September I went up the 

 river in a canoe to Iguara9u. The distance 

 from my residence was two leagues. The river 

 or creek has two mouths, which are situated in 

 the bay of the village of Camboa, which is im- 

 mediately opposite to Conception. In the river 

 there are several islands which are covered with 

 mangroves, and are too low to be cultivated ; 

 the banks of the river are likewise lined with 

 the same description of plant, excepting at one 

 point to the left in going up, where the bank is 

 high and perpendicular, and projects consider- 

 ably. At this place the forest-trees come down 

 to the edge of the bank. Near to the town of 

 Iguarac^u the mangroves have been destroyed, 

 and perhaps upon some particular spots they did 

 not originally grow. When the tide is out, the 

 quantity of water which remains in the river is 

 trifling, and in some parts it is nearly dry ; in- 

 deed, were it not for two places of inconsider- 

 able breadth, where the water is always deep, 

 a man on foot might walk along its bed from 

 about one mile above Camboa to the town. I 

 came down from Iguaracu one day at the ebb of 

 the tide in a small canoe, which held one man 

 besides myself; it was with difficulty that he 



