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a fowl, another some eggs or a bunch of plantains, an- 
other a few coppers. The live animals are frequently 
promised beforehand for a particular saint ; and often, 
when I have wanted to buy some provisions, I have been 
assured that ‘‘that is St. John’s pig/’ or that “those 
fowls belong to the Holy Ghost.” 
Bidding adieu to the Commandante, Senhor Tenente 
Antonio Filisberto Correio de Araujo, who had treated 
me with the greatest kindness and hospitality, I pro- 
ceeded on to Guia, where I arrived about the end of 
April, hoping to find Senhor L. ready, soon to start 
for the river Uaupes ; but I was again doomed to delay, 
for a canoe which had been sent to Barra had not yet 
returned, and we could not start till it came. It was 
now due, but as there were Indians only with it, who 
had no particular interest in hurrying back, it might very 
well be a month longer. And so it proved, for it did not 
arrive till the end of May. All that time I could do but 
little ; the season was very wet, and Guia was a poor 
locality. Fishes were my principal resource, as Senhor 
L. had a fisherman out every day, to procure us our 
suppers, and I always had the day’s sport brought to 
me first, to select any species I had not yet seen. In 
this way I constantly got new kinds, and became more 
than ever impressed with the extraordinary variety and 
abundance of the inhabitants of these rivers. I had 
now figured and described a hundred and sixty species 
from the Rio Negro alone ; I had besides seen many 
others ; and fresh varieties still occurred as abundantly 
as ever in every new locality. I am convinced that the 
number of species in the Rio Negro and its tributaries 
