CHAPTER VI. 
EXCUESIONS BEYOND EGA. 
Steamboat travelling on the Amazons — Passengers — Tunantins — Caish- 
ana Indians — The Jutahi — Indian tribes on the Jutahi and the 
Jurua — The Sapo — Maraiia Indians — Fonte Boa — Journey to St. 
Paulo— Tuciina Indians — Illness — Descent to Par^ — Changes at 
Para — Departure for England. 
November 7th, 1856. — Embarked on the Upper Ama- 
zons steamer, the Tabatinga/' for an excursion to 
Tunantins, a small semi-Indian settlement, lying 240 
miles beyond Ega. The Tabatinga is an iron boat of 
about 170 tons burthen, built at Rio de Janeiro, and 
fitted with engines of fifty horse power. The saloon, 
with berths on each side for twenty passengers, is above 
deck, and open at both ends to admit a free current of 
air. The captain, or " commandante," was a lieutenant 
in the Brazilian navy, a man of polished, sailor-like 
address, and a rigid disciplinarian ; his name, Senhor 
Nunes Mello Cardozo. I was obliged, as usual, to take 
with me a stock of all articles of food, except meat and 
fish, for the time I intended to be absent (three months) ; 
and the luggage, including hammocks, cooking uten- 
sils, crockery, and so forth, formed fifteen large pack- 
ages. One volume consisted of a mosquito tent, an 
