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CONTENTS. 
Indians — Mental condition of Indians — Squalls — Manatee — 
Forest— Floating pumice-stones from the Andes — Falling banks 
— Ega and its inhabitants — Daily life of a Naturalist at Ega — 
Customs, trade, &c. — The four seasons of the Upper Amazons . 153 
CHAPTER IV. 
EXCUKSIONS IN THE NEIGHBOUEHOOD OF EGA. 
The river Teffe — Eambles through groves on the beach — Excursion 
to the house of a Passe chieftain — Character and customs of 
the Passe tribe — First excursion to the sand islands of the 
Solimoens — Habits of great river-turtle — Second excursion — 
Turtle-fishing in the inland pools — Third excursion — Hunt- 
ing-rambles with natives in the forest — Return to Ega . . 225 
CHAPTEPv V. 
ANIMALS OF THE NEIGHBOURHOOD OF EGA. 
Scarlet-faced Monkeys — Parauacu Monkey — Owl-faced Night-apes 
— Marmosets — Jupur^ —Comparison of Monkeys of the New 
World with those of the Old — Bats — Birds — Cuvier's Toucan 
— Curl-crested Toucan — Insects — Pendulous Cocoons — Foraging 
Ants— Blind Ants 305 
CHAPTER yi. 
EXCURSIONS BEYOND EGA. 
Steamboat travelling on the Amazons — Passengers— Tunantins — 
Caishana Indians — The Jutahi — Indian tribes on the Jutahi and 
the Juriia — The Sapo — Maraua Indians — Fonte Boa — Journey to 
St. Paulo — Tucuna Indians — Illness — Descent to Para— Changes 
at Para — Departure for England ...... 367 
