72 



JOURNEY FROM RIO DE JANEIRO 



arranged that mass can be read in it on Sundays and holidays. Tra- 

 vellers would do well not to neglect to attend mass ; because the 

 inhabitants think much more highly of them for so doing. They 

 treated us with kindness and attention where we observed this rule, 

 and shewed evident coldness when we did not go to church. 



After mass, we accompanied the owner back to the town, where 

 we saw what is a rarity in this part of the country, namely, the 

 genuine cocoa-palm (cocos 7uicifera, Linn.) This fine tree is very 

 common farther to the north, as will appear in the sequel of our 

 journey; but here in the southern parts it is very scarce. On the 

 east coast it is called cocos da Bahia. 



At a fazcnda in the neighbourhood of Cape Frio, there were, as I 

 was assured, two date-palms (phoenix dacti/lifera, Linn.) which bore 

 fruit ; but since one of them has been cut down, the other has ceased 

 to bear. 



We now made hunting excursions in all directions, and for this 

 purpose took into our service two new hunters well acquainted with the 

 country. They soon brought us several animals, especially the mon- 

 key called guariba, which has been described by the name of stentor^ 

 or mycetes ursinus, and whose loud voice is frequently heard in these 

 forests. This animal is distinguished by the large vocal organ in the 

 throat, which Humboldt has represented in the fourth plate of his 

 Zoological Observations. From the long thick beard of the male 

 guariba, it bears on this coast the name of barbado. 



On the edge of the lagoas and the marshes, particularly near the 

 mangrove bushes ( rhizophora, conocaipus, and avicennia), we found 

 a great number of holes bored in the earth ; these served as retreats 

 to crabs called guayamu ; they should not be confounded with ano- 

 ther species, which is found in the sand on the sea-shore, and named 

 ciri ; both kinds are mentioned by Marcgraf. The guaya?nu grows 

 to a larger size than the ciri; its colour is a dirty slate, a little 



