ANNOYING DELAYS. 



217 



to prepare the canoe with new toldas — about two days work ; 

 but then, though I was in a hurry, they were not. 



Senhor L. had not a single man left with him, and had to 

 take his canoe down himself, and bring back Indians to assist 

 him to remove his goods and his family, when we went all 

 together to Sao Joaquim, where he intended to reside some 

 time. I now thought I should be able to leave immediately, 

 but found it not such an easy matter, for every Indian I applied 

 to had some business of his own to attend to, before he could 

 possibly go with me to Barra. One said, his house was very 

 much out of repair, and he must first mend it ; another had 

 appointed a dance to take place in a week or two, and when 

 that was over, he was at my service ; so I still had to wait a 

 little longer, and try the Brazilian remedy for all such annoy- 

 ances — " paciencia." 



