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quiring the canoe to be partially unloaded where practicable, 

 and all the exertions of my Indians, often with additional 

 assistance, to pass ; and twelve were so high and furious as to 

 require the canoe to be entirely unloaded, and either pulled 

 over the dry and often very precipitous rocks, or with almost 

 equal difficulty up the margin of the fall. At Caruru, as I 

 have said, four-and-twenty men were scarcely able to pull my 

 empty canoe over the rock, though plentifully strewn with 

 branches and bushes, to smooth the asperities which would 

 otherwise much damage the bottom : this was the reason why 

 I purchased the Tushaiia's smaller oba, to proceed; and it 

 was well I did, or I might otherwise have had to return without 

 ever reaching the locality I had at length attained. 



The next day, the 13th, I was employed drawing some 

 new fish brought me the preceding evening. My hunters 

 went out and brought me nothing but a common hawk. In 

 the afternoon, the father and brother of the Indian I had 

 found in the house, arrived, with their wives and families ; so 

 now, with my six Indians and two hunters, we were pretty 

 full ; some of them, however, slept in a shed, and we were as 

 comfortably accommodated as could be expected. The wives 

 of the father and two sons were perfectly naked, and were, 

 moreover, apparently quite unconscious of the fact. The old 

 woman possessed a **saia," or petticoat, which she sometimes 

 put on, and seemed then almost as much ashamed of herself 

 as civilised people would be if they took theirs off. So power- 

 ful is the effect of education and habit ! 



Having been told by Senhor Chagas that there was an 

 excellent hunter in the Codiari, a river which enters from the 

 north a short distance above Muciira, I sent Philippe, one of 

 my guardas, to try and engage him, and also to buy all the 

 living birds and animals he could meet with. The following 

 day he returned, bringing with him one " Macaco barrigudo 

 {Lagothrix Humboldtii)^ and a couple of parrots. On most 

 days I had a new fish or two to figure, but birds and insects 

 were very scarce. This day Senhor Nicolau returned. On 

 my first arrival I had been told that he had a "tataruga 

 pintata " (painted turtle) for me, but that he would give it me 

 himself on his arrival ; so I did not meddle with it, though my 

 Indians saw it in a " corral," in a small stream near the house. 

 On arriving, he sent to fetch it, but found it had escaped, 



