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had much experience. He had been with Dr. Natterer 
during the whole of his seventeen years’ residence in 
Brazil, having been purchased by him in Bio de Janeiro 
when a boy ; and when the doctor left Para, in 1835, he 
gave him his freedom. His whole occupation while 
with Dr. Natterer was shooting and assisting to skin 
birds and animals. Pie had now a little land, and had 
saved enough to purchase a couple of slaves himself, — 
a degree of providence that the less careful Indian seldom 
attains to. He is a native of Congo, and a very tall and 
handsome man. I agreed to give him a milrei (2s. 3d) 
a day and his living. He used to amuse me much by 
his accounts of his travels with the doctor, as he always 
called Natterer. Pie said he treated him very well, and 
gave him a small present whenever he brought a new bird. 
Luiz was an excellent hunter. Pie would wander in 
the woods from morning to night, going a great distance, 
and generally bringing home some handsome bird. He 
soon got me several fine cardinal chatterers, red-breasted 
trogons, toucans, etc. He knew the haunts and habits 
of almost every bird, and could imitate their several 
notes so as to call them to him. 
In this showery weather the pretty little esmeralda 
butterfly {Hcetera Esmeralda) seemed to delight, for al- 
most every wet day I got one or two specimens in a 
certain narrow gloomy path in the forest, though I never 
found but one in any other place. Once or twice I 
walked over to the rice-mills, to see my friend Mr. 
Leavens, and get some of the curious insects which were 
seldom met with near the city. Several young men in 
Para were now making collections, and it is a proof of 
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