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TRAVELS ON THE RIO NEGRO. 
[June, 
broHglit with them. At these festivals drink alone is ^ 
provided, in immense quantities, each party bringing a j 
little mandiocca-cake or fish for his consumption, which, * 
while the caxiri lasts, is very little. The paint on their | 
bodies is very durable, for though they never miss wash- 
ing two or three times a-day, it lasts a week or a fort- 
night before it quite disappears. 
Leaving Ananarapicoma, we arrived the same evening i 
at Mandii Parana, where there was also a malocca, which, I 
owing to the great rise of the river, could only be reached l| 
by wading up to the middle through the flooded forest. 
I accordingly staid to superintend the making of a fire, 
which the soaking rain we had had all the afternoon il 
rendered a somewhat difficult matter, while Senhor L. ,| 
went with an Indian to the house to arrange some '' ne- I 
gocio ’’ and obtain fish for supper. We staid here for [ 
the night, and the next morning the Indians came down i 
in a body to the canoe, and made some purchases of ! 
fish-hooks, beads, muTors, cloth for trowsers, etc., of l| 
Senhor L., to be paid in farinha, fowls, and other ar- 
ticles on our return. I also ordered a small canoe as a 
specimen, and some sieves and fire-fanners, which I paid l| 
for in similar trifles ; for these Indians are so accustomed li 
to receive payment beforehand, that without doing so j 
you cannot depend upon their making anything. The j 
next day, the 1 2th of June, we reached Sao Jeronymo, ^ 
situated about a mile below the first and most dangerous i 
of the Palls of the Uaupes. 1 
Por the last five days I had been very ill with dysen- | 
tery and continual pains in the stomach, brought on, I 
believe, by eating rather incautiously of the fat and de- - i » 
