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CHAPTER IX. 
JAVITA. 
Leave Guia — Marabitanas — Serra de Cocoi — Enter Venezuela— Sao 
Carlos — Pass the Cassiquiare — Antonio Dias—Indian shipbuilders 
— Eeather-work—Maroa and Pimichm — A black Jaguar — Poisonous 
serpents — Pishing — Walk to Javita — Eesidence there — Indian road- 
makers — Language and customs — A description of Javita — Run- 
away Indians — Collections at Javita — Return to Tomo — A domestic 
broil — Marabitanas, and its inhabitants— Reach Grula. 
When at length oiir visitors were gone, I commenced 
arrangements for my voyage further up the country, 
Senhor L. lent me a canoe, and I had four Indians 
to go with me, only one of whom, an old man named 
Augustinho, could speak a little broken Portuguese. I 
took with me my watch, sextant, and compass, insect- 
and bird-boxes, gun and ammunition, with salt, beads, 
fish-hooks, calico, and coarse cotton cloth for the In- 
dians. My men all had their gravatanas and quivers 
of poisoned arrows, a pair of trowsers, shirt, paddle, 
knife, tinder-box, and rede, which comprise the whole 
assortment of an Indian’s baggage. 
