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were several other dangerous places, and two more dis- 
embarkations and land carriages, the last for a consider- 
able distance. Above the main fall the river is suddenly 
widened out into a kind of a lake, filled with rocky is- 
lands, among which are a confusion of minor falls and 
rapids. However, having plenty of Indians to assist us, 
we passed all these dangers by a little after midday, and 
reached a malocca, where we staid for the afternoon re- 
pairing the wear aud tear of the palm-mats and toldas, 
and cleaning our canoe and arranging our cargo, ready 
to start the next morning. 
In two days more we reached another village, called 
Jukeira Picoma, or Salt Point, where we staid a day. 
I was well satisfied to find myself here considerably 
better, owing, I believe, to my having tried fasting as a 
last resource : for two days I had only taken a little 
farinha gruel once in the twenty- four hours. In a day 
and a half from Jukeira we reached Jauarite, a village 
situated just below the caxoeira of the same name, the 
second great rapid on the Uaupes. Here we had deter- 
mined to stay some days and then return, as the caxoeira 
is very dangerous to pass, and above it the river, for 
many days’ journey, is a succession of rapids and strong 
currents, which render the voyage up at this season in 
the highest degree tedious and disagreeable. We ac- 
cordingly disembarked our cargo into a house, or rather 
shed, near the shore, made for the accommodation of 
traders, which we cleaned and took possession of, and 
felt ourselves quite comfortable after the annoyances we 
had been exposed to in reaching this place. We then 
walked up to the malocca, to pay a visit to the Tushaua. 
