CHAPTER V. 
THE GUAMA AND CAPIM EIVEES. 
Natterer’s hunter, Luiz — Birds and insects — Prepare for a journey— 
First sight of the Piroroco — St. Domingo — Senhor Calistro — Slaves 
and slavery — Anecdote — Cane-field — Journey into the forest — Game 
— Explanation of the Piroroco— Eeturn to Para — Bell -birds and 
yellow parrots. 
I HAD written to Mr. Miller to get me a small house at 
Nazar^ and I now at once moved into it, and set regu- 
larly to work in the forest, as much as the showery and i 
changeable weather would allow me. An old Portuguese, 
who kept a kind of tavern next-door, supplied my ' i 
meals, and I was thus enabled to do without a servant. 
The boys in the neighbourhood soon got to know of 
my arrival, and that I was a purchaser of all kinds of 
“ bichos.’' Snakes were now rather abundant, and 
almost every day I had some brought me, which I 
preserved in spirits. 
As insects were not very 
wished to get a hunter to shoot birds for me, and came 
to an arrangement with a Negro named Luiz, who had, 
plentiful at this season. 
