CONTENTS 



CHAPTER I 

 Para 



PAGE 



Arrival — Aspect of the country — the Para River — First 

 walk in the Suburbs of Para — Free Negroes — Birds, 

 Lizards, and Insects of the Suburbs — Leaf-cutting 

 Ant — Sketch of the climate, history, and present 

 condition of Para ...... i 



CHAPTER H 

 Para — co^itinued 



The Swampy forests of Para — A Portuguese landed 

 proprietor — Country house at Nazareth — Life of a 

 Naturalist under the equator — The drier virgin 

 forests — Magoary — Retired creeks — Aborigines . 29 



CHAPTER HI 



Pa r a — conchided 



Religious holidays — Marmoset Monkeys — Serpents — 

 Insects of the forests — Relations of the fauna of 

 the Para District 57 



CHAPTER IV 



The Tocantins and Cameta 



Preparations for the journey — The bay of Goajara — 

 Grove of fan-leaved palms — The lower Tocantins — 

 Sketch of the river — Vista alegre — Baiao — Papids 

 — Boat journey to the Gauriba falls — Native life on 

 the Tocantins — Second journey to Cameta . . 74 

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