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remained here several days. Our hunters brought us some mieaä 

 ißimia fatuellusy Lynn, the horned sohui) the sloth with the black 

 collar *, a species yet very little known, and some others. We 

 have since lound the latter frequently to the south, but never far- 

 ther north. The following day being Sunday, all the inhabitants 

 for some miles round, poured in to hear mass at ^. Pedro. We 

 also went to church, before which, withered palm leaves stuck in 

 the ground, the exterior symbol of a fast festival, formed an ave- 

 nue. A capitam of the name of Carvalto, who was also here, was 

 very attentive to us. He had his roca (plantation), in the neigh- 

 bourhood, and in the adjacent villa of Cabo Frio^ a house whioh 

 he pressed us to make use of during our stay. Here in S. Pedro 

 he was our Cicerone, and invited us repeatedly to his dwelling in 

 the neighbourhood. This offer Mr. Sei low accepted. At mass 

 we saw a number of dark brown Indians, retaining their original 

 aspect, a sight not a little interesting to strangers. In the evening 

 they danced in the house of this captam mor, and were very merry 

 with the caiig liquor. The clergyman too was here ; but it 

 seemed as if he was not held in much account out of the mass. 



By the visit which Mr. Sellow had paid to M. Cabvalto, we 

 became, in some measure, acquainted with the various products of 

 the great woods near aS*. Pedro. These forests are filled with the 

 most beautiful wood for timber, as well as with officinal plants. 

 Brazil wood, pao Brazil {ccesalpioia Brasiliensis, Lynn.) is found 

 in abunrlance; dX^o ipe wood \hignonia) o£ different kinds, with 

 great yellow and white flowers, of which one is called ipe amarello, 

 put another, which is one of the strongest for ship-building, bears 

 the name of ipc tobacco, because its split kernels produce a bright 

 ^reen dusky powder. There is also the peJcea, with a fruit agree-- 

 able to the human palate, and indeed a common food for monkies^ 

 The pitoma, oleo paido (laurus) ipeuna {bignonia), is the hard- 

 est wood of all. As it is elastic and very light, the Indians some- 

 . times make their bows of it. Here is also the imbiu,jacqua, grum- 

 bari, and mazaranduba, which has a milky sap between the bark 

 and the sphnt, of which the Indians make bird-lime ; the grauria 

 eLud sergi7ia (a cassia or mimosa, which casts off its leaves) one of 

 the prettiest and thickest trees. It is light, can be used hke lime 

 and poplar wood, and they make canoes out of it. Here are the 

 jarraticiipHaya^ w iXXi an aromatic bark, which is used as a medi- 

 cine by the Indians, the Jacaranda ox bois de rose (mimosa), a 

 beautiful black brown, firm and heavy, useful for joiners, and has a 

 faint but agreeable smell, like roses, the white splint is not used, 

 only the inner blackish brown kernel. The cutianna ( cerbera or 



* The sloth with the collar (bradypvs torquatus, Illigeri) is a new species, and as 

 jet nondescript. It i« little different in form and make from the Ai, its colour is va- 

 Vious, a mixture of grey and red, the head mart inclined to red, and mixed with white 

 upon the upper part of the neck is a large spot -with long hlack hairs. This specie^ ha3 

 beside? three toes like the Ai, and not two as Illiger in his Prodromus relates. 



