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puts Ms hand to it possesses either only one wife, or else belongs to that 
rare race among the natives — that of chivalrous husbands. 
564. The weather ever remained the same. Jleaven had not hitherto 
vouchsafed us a single day without the heaviest downpour of rain, 
unfortunately a grievous temperature for my collection of plants. If 
I wanted to save at least something I was forced to have recourse to 
heat, and even then the sappy specimens rotted under pres- 
sure. Stöckle and Florenz were accordingly occupied from morning 
until night drying the papers before the lire, for which the former had 
built a regular drying apparatus which, of course, on account of the 
imprudence of the builder, only a few days after completion shot up in 
flames, together villi Die greatest portion of the paper: a loss that 
proved all the more distressing to me, as it could not lie replaced. 
565. After many a vainless vigil my brother finally succeeded in 
fixing the situation of Manari astronomically: this was found to be 
7° 35' 34" lat. N. and 59° 3S' long. W. The meteorological observations 
hitherto determined gave the following results:— 
Record. 
Barometer. 
Thermometer 
Fahrenheit. 
Highest. 
In Inches. 
Attached Ther- 
mometer 
Fahrenheit. 
I)rv Bulb. 
Wet Bulb. 
30.176 
89.0 
88.4 
83.4 
Lowest. 
30.018 
72.2 
68.0 
68.0 
Mean of 37 
observations 
taken hourly. 
30,092 
78.5 
75.0 

75.2 
566. As my brother also wanted to get to know the Bariina imme- 
diately above the cataracts, he left in a little corial in company with Mr. 
Glascott, paddled down the Manari for a bit and in short time, by means 
of two of the natural junction-channels, the (iaima and Ataima, reached 
the main stream. The incessant rain had not alone filled the Barima 
to overflowing, but had also increased the current to such an extent that 
the party, in spite of every effort, could only make slow headway. The 
current was running at 4-44 miles per hour. After passing the mouths 
of the small streams Ararisi, Sab ri tin, Burroparu ai d Mariwaballi, 
they landed by evening of 28th June at the War ran village of Simuita, 
where the stream still had a breadth of 51 yards. On the following morn- 
ing the barometer recorded 30.020 inches, and the thermometer 70.5 
Fahrenheit. Although we had already here and there in the Barima 
at Manari mouth seen exposed large fine-grained sand-stone 
rocks which the Indians used for sharpening their knives and axes 
on, they were nevertheless so isolated as to offer no hindrance to the 
