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VOYAGE UP THE TAPAJOS. 
Chap. II. 
Point Jaguarari forms at this season of the year a 
high sandbank, which is prolonged as a narrow spit, 
stretching about three miles towards the middle of the 
river. We romided this with great difficulty in the 
night of the 29th ; reaching before daylight a good 
shelter behind a similar sandbank at Point Acara- 
tingari, a headland situated not more than five miles in 
a straight line from our last anchoring place. We 
remained here all day ; the men beating timbo in a 
quiet pool between the sandbank and the mainland, and 
obtaining a great quantity of fish, from which I selected 
six species new to my collection. We made rather better 
progress the two following nights, but the terral now 
always blew strongly from the north -north -east after 
midnight, and thus limited the hours during which we 
could navigate, forcing us to seek the nearest shelter 
to avoid being driven back faster than we came. 
On the 2nd of October we reached Point Cajetuba 
and had a pleasant day ashore. The river scenery 
in this neighbourhood is of the greatest beauty. A 
few houses of settlers are seen at the bottom of the 
broad bay of Aramana-i at the foot of a range of 
richly-timbered hills, the high beach of snow-white sand 
stretching in a bold curve from point to point. The 
opposite shores of the river are ten or eleven miles 
distant, hut towards the north is a clear horizon of water 
and sky. The country near Point Cajetuba is similar 
to the neighbourhood of Santarem : namely, campos 
with scattered trees. We gathered a large quantity of 
wild fruit : Cajii, Umiri,and Aapiranga. The Umiri berry 
(Humirium floribundum) is a black drupe similar in 
