04 
THE AMAZON AND MADEIRA RIVERS. 
bark-canoes revealed to us the beginning of a nan*0AV path, which lead.s 
tlnough the dense forest to theii’ cabins. Hoping to sec again some of 
our old Mends, for Avhom we selected some presents, six of us lauded 
and folloAved the track, whh h was 
kept scrupulously clean and led 
directly inland. At some hundred 
paces from tlio shore, we fomid an 
abandoned shed similar in con- 
struction to those Avo had seen at 
the Caldeirao. The luxuriance of 
A’cgetable growth in its interior 
shoAved that it had been deserted 
by its inmates for some time; and 
^ Avc Avent on, hoping still to find 
^ some of the inhabited huts, to 
g which the path eAudently led. Ihc 
g vegetation around us Avas inag- 
® nificent. Certainly I have never 
seen a gi’eatcr Amriety of palms 
I than there was on the borders of 
^ this lonely Indian path. The 
! umbrella formed by the colossal 
% leaves of the Uanassu-palm, by 
^ the neat bifurcated fans of a 
^ smaller kind of palm, and by the 
large. plantaiu-lUce leaves of the 
Urania or Pacova Sorordca, was 
so umbrageous, that we expe- 
rienced not the slightest incoii- 
A'cnicnce from the scorching rays 
of the sun. 
Wc Avalked some four or five 
miles witliout finding the least 
indication of a Malocca* being in the vicinity ; so we were obliged, 
at last, to give up the attempt, and went back to our canoes rather 
out of sorts Avith our bad luck. 
* Atidocoa : Indian Bottlcmeut. 
