13G 
THE AMAZON AND MADEIKA RIVERS. 
Only after the lapse of some fifty or sixty years, when daylig'ht 
shall have stolen somewhat through the dense leafage of the capoeira 
fas the Bi-azilians call the second growth), which never rises, however, 
to any considerable height, here and there perhaps S(une seed of a 
palisander or a berthollctia may shoot up ; and two hundred years 
afterwards the proud, dark, primeval forest spreads again over the 
ground that once was its own. 
a way. If an old oak-forost is foiled, usuless and wortliless shrubbery first springs 
uj), and is replaced by better timber only afterwards. 
