CHAPTER XVI. 



AROUND PARA. 



Amazon Life — The Natives — The Four-Eyed Fish — New Discoveries 

 of Fishes — Forest Fishes — Tropical Scenery — A Canoe Voyage — 

 Visit to a Forest Home — Indian Houses in the Submerged For- 

 est — Opinions of the Natives Regarding Agassiz. 



given to the artist who made life-studies of the won- 

 drous creatures in colours. Agassiz was particularly 

 impressed with the wonders of the Amazon, and in 

 referring to the islands he terms them an archipelago 

 of islands in an ocean of fresh water." He was much 



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UGUST found Agassiz and 



some of his friends at 

 Para, and, contrary to his 

 expectations, in a delight- 

 fully cool climate, well 

 adapted for the work of 

 collecting which he had 

 laid out for himself. On 

 the way they had ob- 

 served new jelly-fishes 

 belonging to the Phizos- 

 tomidce^ which were lifted 

 aboard the steamer and 



