1851.] 
PASS THE FALLS. 
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The morning was fine, and I had a pleasant walk, though 
the path was very rugged in places, with steep descents 
and ascents at the crossing of several small brooks. Ar- 
rived at Sao Jeronymo, I waited for Senhor L., at the 
house of Senhor Augiistinho, the young Brazilian before 
mentioned, who had returned from Jauarite before us, 
with upwards of a hundred alqueires of farinha. About 
midday a tremendous storm of wind and rain came on, 
and in the afternoon Senhor L. arrived with the canoe, 
thoroughly soaked ; and informed me that they had had 
a most dangerous passage, a portion of the path where 
the cargo had to be carried through the forest being 
breast-deep in Avater ; and at some of the points, the 
violence of the current was so great that they narrowly 
escaped being carried down to the great fall, and dashed 
to pieces on the rocks. 
Here was a good house for travellers, (though with- 
out doors,) and we took possession and settled ourselves 
for a week or ten days’ stay. We nearly filled the 
house with farinha, pitch, baskets, stools, earthen pots 
and pans, maqueiras, etc. ; we had also near a hundred 
fowls, which had been brought crammed into two huge 
square baskets, and were now much pleased to be set at 
liberty, — as well as a large collection of tame birds, par- 
rots, macaws, paroquets, etc., which kept up a continual 
cawing and crying, not always very agreeable. All these 
birds were loose, flying about the village, but returning 
generally to be fed. The trumpeters and curassow-birds 
wandered about the houses of the Indians, and some- 
times did not make their appearance for several days ; 
but being brought up from the nest, or even sometimes 
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