CHAPTER II. 
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 Chao — Excursion in forest — Valuable timber — Modes 
of obtaining fisli — Difficulties with crew — Arrival at Aveyros— 
Excursions in the neighbourhood — White Cebus and habits and 
dispositions of Cebi monkeys — Tame parrot — Missionary settle- 
ment — Enter the Eiver Cupari — Adventure with Anaconda- 
Smoke-dried monkey — Boa-constrictor — Yillage of Mundurucu 
Indians, and incursion of a wild tribe — Falls of the Cupari — 
Hyacinthine macaw — Re-emerge into the broad Tapajos — Descent 
of river to Santarem. 
June, 1852. — I will now proceed to relate the inci- 
dents of my principal excursion up the Tapajos, which 
I began to prepare for, after residing about six months 
at Santarem. 
I was obliged, this time, to travel in a vessel of my 
own ; partly because trading canoes large enough to 
accommodate a Naturalist very seldom pass between 
Santarem and the thinly-peopled settlements on the 
river, and partly because I wished to explore districts at 
my ease, far out of the ordinary track of traders. I 
soon found a suitable canoe ; a two-masted cuberta, of 
about six tons' burthen, strongly built of Itaiiba or 
stone-wood, a timber of which all the best vessels in the 
