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A JOrRNEY m BRAZIL. 



CHAPTER lY. 



VOYAGE UP THE COAST TO PARA. 



On board the " Cruzeiro do Sul." — Members of the Party. — Arrival 

 AT Bahia. — Day in the Country. — Return to the Steamer. — Conver- 

 sation ABOUT Slavery in Brazil. — Negro Marriages. — Maceio. — Per- 



NAMBUCO. — PaRAHYBA DO NORTE. — RaMBLE ON ShORE. — CeARA. — DIFFI- 

 CULT Landing. — Brazilian Baths, — Maranham. — Assai Palm. — Visit to 

 Orphan Asylum. — Detained in Port. — Variety of Medusa. — Arrival 

 OF American Gunboat. — More Medusa. — Dinner on Shore. — Cordial- 

 ity TOWARD the Expedition. — Arrival at Para. — Kind Reception. — 

 Environs of Para. — Luxuriant Growth. — Markets. — Indian Boats. — 

 Agreeable Climate. — Excursion in the Harbor. — Curious Mushroom. 

 — Success in collecting, with the assistance of our Host and other 

 Friends. — Fishes of the Forests. — Public Expressions of Sympathy 

 for the Expedition. — Generosity op the Amazonian Steamship Com- 

 pany. — Geological Character of the Shore from Rio to Para'. — Er- 

 ratic Drift. — Letter to the Emperor. 



Juli/ 25th.— On board the "Cruzeiro do Sul." We 

 sailed to-day at 11 o'clock, bidding good by with regret, 

 though not without hope of return, to the beautiful bay 

 and mountains on which we have been looking for three 

 months. Our party consists of Major Coutinho, Mr. Burk- 

 hardt, Monsieur Bourget, who accompanies Mr. Agassiz 

 to the Amazons as collector and preparator, our two young 

 friends Mr. Hunnewell and Mr. James, and ourselves.' At 

 Bahia we shall be joined by Mr. Dexter and Mr. Thayer, 

 two of our party who have preceded us up the coast, and 

 have been collecting in the neighborhood of Bahia for two 

 or three weeks. The aspect of the steamer is not very 

 inviting, for it has been used of late for the transportation 

 of troops to the south, in consequence of which it is very 

 dirty ; it is also overcrowded on account of the number of 

 persons bound northward, who have been detained in Rio 



