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CONTENTS. 



Country life — Curl-crested Aragaris— 

 Vultures and Oncas — Tobacco growing- 

 and manufacture— The Cow-fish — Senhor 

 Brandao — A fishing party with Senhor 

 Henrique — Letters from England ... iia 



CHAPTER Vni. 



THE UPPER RIO NEGRO. 



Quit Barra for the Upper Rio Negro — 

 Canoe and cargo — Great width of the 

 river — Carvoeiro and Barcellos — Granite 

 rocks — Castanheiro — A polite old gentle- 

 man — Sao joze — A new language — The 

 cataracts — Sao Gabriel — Nossa Senhora 

 da Guia — Senhor L. and his family — 

 Visit to the river Cobati — An Indian 

 village— The Serra— Cocks of the lock — 

 Return to Guia— Frei Joze dos Santos 

 Innocentos 133 



CHAPTER IX. 



JAVITA. 



Leave Guia — Marabitanas — Serra de Cocoi 

 — Enter Venezuela — Sao Carlos — Pass 

 the Cassiquiare — Antonio Dias — Indian 

 shipbuilders— Feather-work — Marda and 

 Pimicliin— A black jaguar — Poisonous 

 serpents — Fishing— Walk to Javita — Resi- 

 dence there — Indian road-makers — Lan- 

 guage and customs — A description of 

 Javita — Runaway Indians — Collections at 

 Javita — Return to Tomo — A domestic 

 broil — Marabitanas and its inhabitants — 

 Reach Guia 159 



CHAPTER X. 



FIRST ASCENT OF THE RIVER UAUPES. 



Rapid current — An Indian Malccca — The 

 Inmates— A Festival— Paint and orna- 

 ments — Illness — Sao Jeronymo — Passing 

 the cataracts — Jauarite — The Tushaua 

 Calistro — Singular palm — Birds — Cheap 

 provisions — Edible ants, and earth- 

 worms — A grand dance— Feather orna- 

 ments — The snake-dance — The Capi — A 



State cigar — Ananarapicoma — Fi sh — 

 Chegoes — Pass down the falls — Tame 

 birds— Orchids — Piums — Eating dirt — 

 I oisoning — Return to Gui'a — Manoel 

 Joaquira — Annoying delays 188 



CHAPTER XI. 



ON THE RIO NEGRO. 



Difficulties of starting — Descending the 

 falls — Catching an alligator — Tame 

 parrots — A fortnight in Barra — Frei 

 Joze's diplomacy — Pickling a cow-fish — 

 A river storm — Brazilian veracity — Wana- 

 waca — Productiveness of the country — 

 A large snake— Sao Gabriel— Sao Joaquim 

 — Fever and ague 218 



CHAPTER XII. 



THE CATARACTS OF THE UAUPES. 



Start for the Uaupes— Sao Jeronymo and 

 Jauarite — Indians run away — Numerous 

 cataracts — Reach Caruru — Difficult pas- 

 sage — Painted Malocca — Devil music — 

 More falls — Ocoki — Curious rocks — 

 Reach Uarucapun' — Cobeu Indians — 

 Reach Mucura — An Indian's house and 

 family — Height above the sea— Tenente 

 Jesuino — Return to Uarucapun' — Indian 

 prisoners — Voyage to Jauarite — Correct- 

 ing the calendar — Delay at Sao Jeronymo 



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CHAPTER XIII. 



SAO JERONYMO TO THE DOWNS. 



Voyage down the Rio Negro— Arrive at 

 Barra— Obtaining a passport— State of 

 the city — Portuguese and Brazilian enter- 

 prise—System of credit — Trade — Immo- 

 rality, and its causes — Leave Barra— A 

 storm on the Amazon— Salsaparilha — A 

 tale about Death — Para — The yellow fever 

 — Sail for England — Ship takes fire — Ten 

 days in the boats— Get picked up — Heavy 

 gales — Short of provisions — Storm in the 

 Channel — Arrive at Deal 256 



CHAPTER XIV. 



THE PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY AND GEOLOGY OF THE AMAZON VALLEY 280 



CHAPTER XV. 



VEGETATION OF THE AMAZON VALLEY 3OO 



CHAPTER XVI. 



OBSERVATIONS ON THE ZOOLOGY OF THE AMAZON DISTRICT 310 



CHAPTER XVII. 



ON THE ABORIGIKSS OF THE AMAZON 



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