THE UPPER AMAZONS. Chap. III. 
flavoured and coloured with Uiki is a favourite dish at 
Ega. The fruit, like most of the others here mentioned, 
ripens in Ja- 
nuary. Many- 
smaller fruits 
such as Wa- 
jurii (probably 
a species of 
Achras), the size of a gooseberry, 
which grows singly and contains 
a sweet gelatinous pulp enclosing 
two large, shining black seeds ; 
Cashipari-arapaa, an oblong 
scarlet berry ; two kinds of 
Bacuri, the Bacuri-sitima and the 
B. curua, sour fruits of a bright 
lemon colour when ripe, and a 
great number of others, are of less 
importance as articles of food. 
The celebrated Peach palm," 
Pupunha of the Tupi nations 
(Guilielma speciosa), is a common 
tree at Ega. The name, I sup- 
pose, is in allusion to the colour 
of the fruit, and not to its fla- 
vour, for it is dry and mealy, and 
m taste may be compared to a 
mixture of chestnuts and cheese. 
Vultures devour it eagerly, and 
come in quarrelsome flocks to pupunha Paim. 
the trees when it is ripe. Dogs will also eat it : I 
