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OUR MAN ISIDORA. 
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mess for a person with a good appetite and a strong 
stomach. 
After breakfast, we loaded our old Negro (who had come 
with us to show the way) with plants that we had col- 
lected, and a basket to hold anything interesting we might 
meet with on the road, and set out to walk home, pro- 
mising soon to make a longer visit. We reached Nazare 
with boxes full of insects, and heads full of the many 
interesting things we had seen, among which the milk- 
giving tree, supplying us with a necessary of life from 
so new and strange a source, held a prominent place. 
Wishing to obtain specimens of a tree called Caripe, 
the bark of which is used in the manufacture of the pot- 
tery of the country, we inquired of Isidora if he knew 
such a tree, and where it grew. He replied that he 
knew the tree very well, but that it grew in the forest a 
long way off. So one fine morning after breakfast we 
told him to shoulder his axe and come with us in search 
of the Caripe, — he in his usual dishabille of a pair of 
trowsers, — shirt, hat, and shoes being altogether dis- 
pensed with in this fine climate ; and we in our shirt- 
sleeves, and with our hunting apparatus across our 
shoulders. Our old conductor, though now following 
the domestic occupation of cook and servant of all work 
to two foreign gentlemen, had worked much in the 
forest, and was well acquainted with the various trees, 
could tell their names, and was learned in their uses 
and properties. He was of rather a taciturn disposition, 
except when excited by our exceeding dulness in un- 
derstanding what he wanted, when he would gesticu- 
late with a vehemence and perform dumb -show with a 
