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THE PIMICHIN RIVER. 
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of hammocks. The hammocks themselves are of finely 
netted palm-fibre string, dyed of red, yellow, green, and 
other brilliant colours. The fringes are about a foot 
deep, also finely netted, of the same material, and on 
these are stuck, with the milk of the cow- tree, sprays 
and stars and flowers of feather-work. In the best he 
puts in the centre the arms of Portugal or Brazil 
beautifully executed ; and the whole, on a ground of 
the snowy white heron’s feathers, has a very pleasing 
effect. 
Senhor Antonio informed me, that, owing to the low- 
ness of the water, I could not go on any further in my 
canoe, and must therefore get an Indian ohd, of one piece 
of wood, to stand the scraping over the rocks up to 
Pimichm; so, on the 1 3th, I left Tomo with Senhor 
Antonio in his canoe, for Maroa, a village a few miles 
above, where I hoped to get an oba suited for the re- 
mainder of the journey. This was a large village, en- 
tirely inhabited by Indians, and with an Indian Commis- 
sario, who could read and write, and was quite fashionably 
dressed in patent-leather boots, trowsers, and straps. 
I here got an oba, lent me by a GaUician trader, and 
took two Indians with me from the place to bring it 
back. Senhor Antonio returned to Tomo, and about 
three p.m. I started, with my little tottering canoe, on 
my journey. 
About a mile above Maroa, we reached the entrance 
of the little river Pimichm, up which we were to ascend. 
At the very mouth was a rock filling up the channel, and 
we had great difficulty in passing. We then had deep 
water for some distance, but came again to rocks and 
