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RETURN TO PARA. 
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Insects also, as at the former station, were very scarce, 
and though I got several curious small birds, I was not 
very well satisfied with the success of my expedition. 
Accordingly, after three days, I set out on my return, 
the rest of the party proceeding further up into the forest 
in search of a better hunting-ground. On the second 
day we again reached the open river, and I much en- 
joyed the change from the dark forest, the damp foliage 
and decaying leaves and branches, to the bright sunshine 
and the blue sky, with the chirping birds and the gay 
flowers on the banks. Passing an estate of Senhor 
Calistro’s on the opposite side of the river, I went on 
shore to shoot a large goatsucker which was sitting on 
the ground in the sunshine, and succeeded in killing 
two, which I skinned on our way to Sao Joze, where we 
arrived just in time for supper, and were heartily re- 
ceived by Senhor Calistro. After a few days more I 
left his hospitable roof, loaded with luxuries : eggs, 
tapioca, a roast pig, pine-apples, and sweets were sent 
to my canoe ; and I bade adieu with regret to my kind 
host. 
On our way down I again encountered the “ piroroco” 
when I hardly expected it. We had gone in shore at a 
sugar estate to wait for the tide, when the agent told us 
we had better put out further into the stream, as the 
piroroco beat there. Though thinking he only wished 
to frighten us, we judged it prudent to do as he advised ; 
and while we were expecting the tide to turn, a great 
wave came suddenly rushing along, and breaking on the 
place where our canoe had been at first moored. The 
wave having passed, the water was as quiet as before, but 
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