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CHAPTER X. 
MKST ASCENT OF THE RIVER UAUPES. 
Eapid Current—An Indian Malocca — The Inmates — A Festival — 
Paint and Ornaments — Illness — Sao Jeronymo — Passing the Ca- 
taracts — Jauarite — The Tushaua Calistro — Singular Palm — Pirds — 
Cheap Provisions — Edible Ants, and Earthworms — A grand dance 
— Feather ornaments — The snake-dance — The Capi — A State cigar 
— Ananarapicoma — Fish — Chegoes — Pass down the Falls — Tame 
Birds — Orchids — Piums — Eating dirt — Poisoning — Keturn to Guia 
— Manoel Joaquim — Annoying delays. 
At length the long looked-for canoe arrived, and we 
immediately made preparations for our voyage. Fish- 
hooks and knives and beads were looked out to suit 
the customers we were going among, and from whom 
Senhor L. hoped to obtain farinha and salsaparilha : 
and I, fish, insects, birds, and all sorts of bows, arrows, 
blowpipes, baskets, and other Indian curiosities. 
On the 3rd of June, at six in the morning, we started. 
The weather had cleared up a few days before, and was 
now very fine. We had only two Indians with us, the 
same who had run away from Javita, and who had been 
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