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CHAP. VIII. 



RETURN. — 

 CATTLE. 

 CIFE. 



FROM SEARA TO NATAL. SERTANEJOS. 



— VEGETABLE WAX. FROM NATAL TO RE- 



LEFT Seara at day-break with three Indians, 

 and three loaded horses, and one of the 

 young men with whom I had formed an ac- 

 quaintance accompanied me to a short distance 

 from the town. I deviated on my return to 

 Aracati, in some measure, from the road by 

 which I had travelled to Seara. The first day 

 passed without any circumstance worthy of 

 being mentioned, and I was chiefly occupied in 

 rinding out what sort of beings my Indians were, 

 for I had had very little conversation with them 

 before we set off. In the afternoon of the second 

 day, having asked one of the Indians if the road 

 was intricate to our next resting-place, and being 

 answered, that there was no turning by which I 

 could lose the right path, I left the loaded 

 horses and rode on, being tired of following 

 them at a foot's pace; — this I had often done 

 on other occasions. About five o'clock I put 

 up at a cottage in which were two boys, whose 

 appearance was very wretched, but they seemed 

 glad to say that they would let me have a night's 



