CONTENTS 
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CHAPTER X 
CATARACTS AND UNEXPLORED FORESTS OF THE 
UAUPES RIVER 
PAGE 
Journal of voyage to Panure (Sao Jeronymo) — Brazilian traders 
there — New plants — -Description of the cataracts — Ber- 
nardo's house — Calistro, chief of the Tariana Indians — 
His house and family — Portraits of them — Why Spruce 
could not ascend the Uaupes — White men at Sao Jeronymo 
and their doings — Indian burial customs — Rise and fall 
of the River Uaupes— Botanical notes — Results of his 
exploration — Difficulties of a collector — Botany of shores 
of the Uaupes — Cultivated plants — A snake-killing bird 3 1 7 
CHAPTER XI 
AT SAN CARLOS DO RIO NEGRO 
Panure to Marabitanas — A new fruit-tree — Clay-eating Indians 
— At San Carlos — Threatened attack by Indians — Pre- 
pare for a siege — Indians retire — Barometric regularity — 
Inquiries as to sources of the Orinoco — Serras and river- 
sources — Recollections of Humboldt — Ascent of Cerro de 
Cocui — Enormous rocks — Vegetation — Grand view of 
summit — Stung by Tucandera ants — Intense pain — 
Poisonous snakes — Boy killed by a rattlesnake — Man 
bitten by jarardca — Seen by Spruce, and recovered by 
drinking rum — Insect-plagues on the Rio Negro — Boat 
for voyage to the Orinoco — Delays and difficulties — Two 
Indians die from drink — The vegetation of the Upper 
Rio Negro — Difficulties of preserving plants — Extreme 
humidity — Mosses and Hepatics in abundance . . 343 
CHAPTER XH 
IN HUMBOLDT'S COUNTRY : VOYAGE UP THE CASIQUIARI, 
THE CUNUCUNUMA, AND PACIMONI RIVERS 
Escape from shipwreck — Swarms of bats — -Rock of Guanari 
— Large Sassafras tree — Vasiva Lake — Pueblo de Pon- 
