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a green fringe to the path : it will then become as 
beautiful a woodland road as the old one was. A 
naturalist will have, henceforward, to go farther from 
the city to find the glorious forest scenery which lay 
so near in 1848, and work much more laboriously 
than was formerly needed, to make the large collections 
which Mr. Wallace and I succeeded in doing in the 
neighbourhood of Para. 
June % 1859. — At length, on the second of June, 
I left Para, probably for ever ; embarking in a North 
American trading-vessel, the " Frederick Demming," 
for New York, the United States route being the 
quickest as well as the pleasantest way of reaching 
England. My extensive private collections were divided 
into three portions and sent by three separate ships, 
to lessen the risk of loss of the whole. On the even- 
ing of the third of June, I took a last view of the 
glorious forest for which I had so much love, and to 
explore which I had devoted so many years. The 
saddest hours I ever recollect to have spent were those 
of the succeeding night when, the mameluco pilot 
having left us free of the shoals and out of sight of 
land though within the mouth of the river at anchor 
waiting for the wind, I felt that the last link which 
connected me with the land of so many pleasing 
recollections was broken. The Paraenses, who are fully 
aware of the attractiveness of their country, have an alli- 
terative proverb, " Quem vai para (o) Para para," He 
who goes to Para stops there," and I had often thought I 
should myself have been added to. the list of examples. 
