CONTENTS OF VOL. IL 
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CHAPTER 1. 
SANTAREM. 
Situation of Santarem — Manners and customs of the inhabitants 
— Trade — Climate — Leprosy — Historical sketch — Grassy campos 
and woods — Excursions to Mapiri, Mahica, and Irura, with 
sketches of their Natural History ; Palms, wild fruit-trees, 
Mining Wasps, Mason "Wasps, Bees, Sloths, and Marmoset 
Monkeys — isTatural History of Termites or White Ants . . 1 
CHAPTER IL 
VOYAGE UP THE TAPAJOS. 
Preparations for voyage — First day's sail — Mode of arranging 
money-matters and remittance of collections in the interior — 
Loss of boat— Altar do Chad — Excursion in forest — Valuable 
timber — Modes of obtaining fish — Difficulties with crew — Arrival 
at Aveyros — Excursions in the neighbourhood — White Cebus 
and habits and dispositions of Cebi Monkeys — Tame Parrot — 
Missionary settlement — Enter the River Cupari — Adventure with 
Anaconda — Smoke-dried Monkey — Boa-constrictor — Village of 
Mundurucii Indians, and incursion of a wild tribe — Falls of 
the Cupari — Hyacinthine Macaw — Re- emerge into the broad 
Tapajos — Descent of river to Santarem . . . . .71 
CHAPTER IIL 
THE UPPER AMAZONS— VOYAGE TO EGA 
Departure from Barra— First day and night on the Upper Ama- 
zons — Desolate appearance of river in the flood season — Cucdima 
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