B2 Prince Maximilian's 



also abound, and a larger sort are found in the paths of the 

 woods. According to Marcraf, the Brazilians call this bird, in 

 the country of Peniambucco, Ibiyau; on the coast which I 

 travelled over they are, however, called Bacurau, 



From the intenseness of the heat we suffered much thirst, 

 for which our young Puri taught us a remedy. It consisted in 

 breaking out the stiff middle leaves of the Bromelia shrub, 

 in the corners of which much good matter collects from the 

 rain and dews; and catching this water by quickly applying the 

 leaves to the mouth. We found, during"^ the day, on the pro- 

 jecting promontories of the coast, stony hills, on which a vast 

 number of wild palms were growing ; the Hcematopius, the 

 Plover, and the Sand-piper were every where growing. 



We took up our quarters for the night at the Fazenda de Aga, 

 close to which extend great woods, filled with wild animals of 

 every kind. A large Ounce, {yaguarete felis onca, Linn.) had 

 the night before killed a mare belonging to the proprietor, and 

 hunters were still out searching in vain for the predatory beast. 

 The Mono de Aga, an isolated mountain, consisting of rocks 

 with naked rugged sides, and surrounded with lofty hills, rises 

 out of the neighbouring woods. I here for the first time heard 

 with astonishment the frog called ferreiro (smith) by the Por- 

 tuguese, fi'om its voice being similar to the noise made by a 

 copper or tin worker when he uses his hammer. Another ob- 

 ject of natural curiosity was a thick bush of a hitherto unseen 

 species of Heliconia, which always bends downwards the stalks 

 of its flowers, at a certain height, and then raises them again 

 with the point upwards; many flowers with scarlet-red sheaths 

 cover the curving part of the stem ; this magnificent plant 

 forms a perfect arbour. The Pray a contains here a few species 

 of double-shelled muscles and snails. 



Not far from Aga we reached the Povoaqao Piuma, or Ipiuma^ 

 inhabited by some Indian families, where a strong rivulet, only 

 navigable for canoes, flows into the sea. There was also here 

 a wooden bridge, provided against the swelling of the stream, 

 300 paces long ; which is a rarity in this country. The banks 

 of this rivulet are thickly overgrown, and the water, like that 

 of the greatest part of the forest-streams and little rivers of this 

 country, has a dark coffee-brown colour. There are found in 

 the valleys at this place, and also on the dry heights, frequent 

 thickets of a strong fan-reed, from sixteen to eighteen feet 

 high, which bears on a somewhat compressed stalk a beautiful 

 fan of long lancet-formed leaves entirely edged ; these grow 

 almost out of one point, and from the middle of them shoots a 

 long smooth shaft, on which th^ flowers hang down froniji above 

 like a baiiner. This fine «pecies of reed is here called Ub6'y 



