148 CURIOUS ENCAMPMENT. 



liarly pleasing effect, floating on the water, 

 and re-echoed by the woods on the opposite 

 bank. They were stationed in a little cove? 

 where they had cleared the brushwood from 

 a space between the water and the bank, 

 upon which they formed a curious encamp- 

 ment, the bustle and grouping of which, 

 in this remote solitude, had a singular ap- 

 pearance. They had left several trees 

 standing, to which their hammocks were 

 suspended in various directions, whilst the 

 many poles of their canoes stood fixed in 

 the earth, supporting clothes hung to dry, 

 and a variety of other articles. Some of 

 the men were amusing themselves at dif- 

 ferent games, others mending toldos, &c. ; 

 forming altogether, with their rude dresses, 

 the wild scenery, and the champans, a 

 picture not unlike some of Salvator Rosa's 

 groupes of banditti. At sunset, anise was 

 served out to all the men of the three par- 

 ties, by filling totumas, a kind of calabash or 



