124 TRAVELS ON THE AMAZON. S^Juue, 
from ?’ 'I have just come from heaven/ said the other, 
‘ and have brought you news of your little daughter 
Maria.’ ' Oh ! wife, wife ! come and see a man who 
has brought us news of our little daughter Maria / then, 
turning to the visitor, continued : ' And what was my 
little daughter doing when you left?’ 'Oh! she was 
sitting at the feet of the Virgin, with a golden crown on 
her head, and smoking a golden pipe a yard long.’ 'And! 
did she not send any message to us ?’ ' Oh yes, she sent | 
many remembrances, and begged you to send her two ’ 
pounds of your tobacco from the little rhossa, they have 
not got any half so good up there.’ ' Oh ! wife, wife 1 
bring two pounds of our tobacco from the little rhossa, 
for our daughter Maria is in heaven, and she says they 
have not any half so good up there.’ So the tobacco 
was brought, and the visitor was departing, when he was 
asked : ' Are there many white men up there?’ ' Very 
few,’ he replied ; ' they are all down below with the 
diaho! ' I thought so,’ the other replied, apparently 
quite satisfied ; ' good night 1’ ” 
Senhor Calistro had a beautiful canoe made of a single 
piece of wood, without a nail, the benches being all 
notched in. He often went in it to Para, near two 
hundred miles, and, with twelve good Indians to paddle, 
and plenty of caxa^a, reached the city, without stopping, 
in twenty-four hours. We sometimes went out to in- 
spect the cane-fields in this canoe, with eight little Negro 
and Indian boys to paddle, who were always ready for 
such service. I then took my gun and net, and shot 
some birds or caught any insects that we met with, 
while Senhor Calistro would send the boys to climb 
