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tightly with a cord and laid on his back on the floor, 
and it is believed that in order to obtain deliverance 
from such durance vile he will cause the lost sheep to 
return. Thus was the unfortunate St. Antony of Tomo 
now treated, and laid ignominiously on the earthen floor 
all night, but without effect ; he was obstinate, and no- 
thing was heard of the wanderer. More inquiries were 
made, but with no result, till two days afterwards Senhor 
Antonio himself returned accompanied by the girl. She 
had hid herself in a sitio a short distance from the vil- 
lage, waited for Senhor Antonio’s passing, and then 
joined him, and told her own story first ; and so the re- 
mainder of the harem got some hard words, and I am 
inclined to think some hard blows too. 
Before leaving Tomo, I purchased a pair of the beau- 
tiful feather-work borders, before alluded to, for which I 
paid £3 in silver dollars. Five Indians were procured 
to go with me, and at the same time take another small 
canoe, in which to bring back several articles that Se- 
nhor Antonio was much in want of. We paid the men 
between us, before going, with calicoes and cotton cloth, 
worth in England about twopence a yard, but here va- 
lued at 2^. 6(^., and soap, beads, knives, and axes, in the 
same proportion. On the way, I got these Tomo Indians 
to give me a vocabulary of their language, which differs 
from that of the villages above and below them. We 
paddled by day, and floated down by night ; and as the 
current was now tremendous, we got on so quickly, that 
in three days we reached Marabitanas, a distance which 
had taken us nine in going up. 
Here I staid a week with the Commandante, who 
