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VOYAGE ON THE TAPAJOS. 



day, they would abandon me without pity. Already they answered me 

 insolently. 



"After a moment passed in the saddest reflection, I called to the 

 hunter to bring me my travelling case. I took from it the entire 

 preparation of parica of the Mosse chief, and a flask of arsenical soap, 

 which I would not use except as the last resource. I took the parica 

 and did as I had seen the old Indian do. I instantly fell drunk in my 

 hammock, but with a peculiar intoxication, and which 'acted upon my 

 limbs like electric shocks. On rising, I put my foot to the ground, and, 

 to my great surprise, felt no pain. At first I thought I dreamed. I even 

 walked without being convinced. At length, positively sure that I was 

 awake, and there still remaining two hours of daylight, I detached my 

 hammock, and forced the Indians, by striking them, to follow me. 



" When further on we stopped to rest, they brought me the roast 

 monkey, which they had not touched. I snatched a leg and ate it with 

 voracity. The next day, constantly compelling myself to take the gua- 

 rana, I had but slight fever; and towards the evening, after a toilsome 

 journey, we arrived at a miserable Malocca, composed of about four or 

 five Indian cabins." 



