CONTENTS. 
Tuarutii on *he old road — Indian Fire-apparatus — Dasy- 
pus yUjantcu.s — Da.sj/pas l illosns — Dicotylcs lahiatus and 
its chase— Gulo harharus — Emharkation on the Takutu — 
Dicoli/tes torqaatm — Arrival in Tenette — Mr. Fryer — 
Meeting u'lth the other party — Sources of the Rupunmn 
— Piniyhettc Range — Mamette Range — Harhinyers of the 
rainy season — Departure from Tenette — Calycophyllum 
Stanleya)i.uin — Lse of the seeds of the Mimosa acacioides 
— Honey hees- — Return to Pirara — Transport of Prorisions 
from Grorgriou-n — Return thither of Petri und the Ixtat 74 — 86' 
Chapter IV. 
Settiny-in of the Rmny Reason — ^^uuirming of. and gathering 
the 1'ermcs destructor and Atta eephalotes — Phanaeus 
Jasius and Mimas — Meteorological ohserrations — Getting 
the houses ready for the tret season — Mmsture of the tern- * 
perature and of the ground — Return of Hamlet to George- 
town — Despatch of 11 end rieh and Renter there— Enumera- 
tion of the trouhle.some and dangerous animals [that the 
rainy seaso)i drires into the houses — Flora of the rainy 
season at Piruru — Visit from Brazilians — Blighted hopes 
of a broken fast — Influence of the atmosphere on the lives 
of the Indians — Youd's recall — TTis departure for London 
His death, and its consequences for Pirara— Treatment of 
snake-hite by the Indians — Meteorological obserratiou^ 
from Mail to Avgiist — Return of Hendrich and Reuter 
from Georgetown — Recall of the Military— Dismissal and 
death of Reuter — Manatus americnnus — Baru — Demoli- 
tion of Fort New Guinea — Another excurmon to the 
Canuku Ranges — Coracina militaris . . .... 87 — 117 
Chapter V. 
Commencement of the Journey to Roraim-a — Breeding Season 
of Mycteria americana — Mouth rjf the Virua, the Mann- 
r uro pa of the Maps — Banks of the Takui u— Friar Jose's 
Fazenda — Mouth of the Cotinga — Camp on western hank 
of the Cotinga — i'<warms of Butterflies — Pimelodus Ara- 
kaiuia— Delphin us a mazouicus { *) — Taeniura motoro — 
Crotophaga major — Visit of the Elite of Fort Sao 
Joaquim to the Zuruma camp — River Warann— Warami 
settlement — Hunting the Dicotyles torqiiatus and D, 
lahiatus — Immense bed of Infusoria — Tapir-hunting — 
Commencement of the Cataracts — Rapids of Aratiari — 
River Mawitzi — Rocks Maikang-Yepatori and Arawanna 
— Cnidoscolus C ureas- — Junction of Zuruma with Cotinga 
— Camp at their junction— Course of the Cotinga — 
Mounts Piriwai and Maikang-patir—Piriwai Cataracts — 
