LIST OF THE ENGRAVINGS. 
bashes, a dosser, a maracd (sort of i-attle 
used oil solemn occasions), and feather 
ornaments, with maize, sugar-cane, and 
the deeply-indented leaves of the mandioca 
on a broad hand-rudder with gaudily- 
painted tiller, the most indispensable utensil 
of the Indians. 
CHAPTER III. 
Initial : EMn.u'isA (Ckcropia) with Bro- 
Halting-i’lace in thk Shadk of a Fokkst- 
OIANT. 
If trees of the dimensions of that repre- 
sented here are not found in all tropical 
forests, they are not a rare sight in the 
rich alluvion of the Amazon Basin. They 
generally belong to the ficus family, with 
light white wood. A halt in the cool 
shade of such a giant, covered ivith hun- 
dreds of parasitic plants, from the broad- 
leaved imbe with its rope-like roots to 
strange orchids and graceful ferns, Avheii 
the mid-day sun fills the atmosphere 
around with its glowing rays, is quite 
a treat after a morning’s hard work. 
Our Paddlhrs at Breakfast. 
On a well-chosen spot, in the shade 
of slender myrtacero and high cacao-bushes, 
with their golden cucumber-like fruit bud- 
ding directly from the stem, our brown 
fellow-travellers (in their stift’ bast shirts, 
or their more elegant white camisetas) are 
seated round the large earthen pot, out of 
which the Capitao is distributing the thick 
pap of maize, or mandioca flour, mixed 
with little pieces of meat. The loiterer 
in the foreground is busily beating a stiff 
piece of bast with the wooden “maceta," 
to render it soft and pliable enough for 
wearing. 
Toitjodrs Perdrix! 
Though it is rather the sea turtle that 
gives the material to the celebrated turtle 
soup, the river turtle also is used for 
culinary purposes ; and none oi the 
steamers running between Para and 
Liverpool leave the mouth of the Amazon 
without a few of the cuirassed amphibian. 
Neither soup nor ragout of the tartaruga 
is to be despised ; but those who have 
partaken of the same dish daily for months 
and months will understand and pardon 
the above exclamation. 
Prei’.arations for Alligator- uontino. 
As the lazy saurian, which usually is 
very shy near the shore, is ahvays more 
inclined to run and dive than to attack, 
the hunt is not half so dangerous as it 
looks ; and as soon as the la<;o is over its 
head it is over. 
Kili.ing an Alligator. 
In spite of its resistance, the mighty 
animal is dragged on to a sand-bank and 
finished with a few strokes of an axe. 
Its timidity notwithstanding, however, 
Indian women while washing on shore 
have been carried off’, as I was told by 
eye-witnesses, though immediate help was 
at hand. 
Vignette : Fighting Macaws. 
CH.A.PTER IV. 
Initial : Isink (Philodendron). 
The long straight air-roots, demitted by 
the pothos and aroidem from their lofty 
seats in the crowns of gigantic trees down 
to the ground, ai-e one of the most strildng 
features of primeval vegetation. 
SuBMFJiGEi) Forest. 
In Decemlier, .January, and February 
a great part of the ivooded lowlands is 
more or less inundated by the annual 
floods. On these smooth, lake-like sheets 
