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TRAVELS ON THE RIO NEGRO. \_September, 
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I here finished stuffing my Jacare, and was obliged 
to borrow a drill to make the holes to sew up the skin, j 
I had no box to put it in, and no room for it in the I- 
canoe, so I tied it on a board, and had a palm-leaf mat ' 
made to cover it from rain, on the top of the tolda. ! 
Senhor Joao told us to visit his “ cacoarie,’’ or fish- weir, 
on our way down, and take what we found in it. We j 
did so, and of fish only got one, — a curious mailed j | 
species, quite new to me, and which gave me an after- l\ 
noon’s work to figure and describe. There were also 
five small red-headed turtles, which were very acceptable, ; 
and furnished us with dinner for several days. j 
We proceeded pleasantly on our voyage, sometimes 
with rain and sometimes with sunshine, and often | 
obliged to make a supper of farinha and water, on ac- f 
count of there being no land on which to make a fire; 
but to all these inconveniences I was by this time well 
inured, and thought nothing of what, a year before, was 
a very great hardship. At the different sitios where I 
called, I often received orders for Barra ; for everybody ^ 
whom I had once seen was, on a second encounter, an 
old friend, and would take a friend’s privilege. One re- | 
quested me to bring him a pot of turtle oil, — another, a 
garafao of wine ; the Delegarde wanted a couple of cat^^ 
and his clerk, a couple of ivory small-tooth combs ; 
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another required gimlets, and another, again, a guitar. 
Bor all these articles I received not a vintem of payment, 
but was promised the money certain on my return, or^^ [[ 
an equivalent in coffee or tobacco, or some other article’ 
current in the Rio Negro. To many persons, with whom | 
I had never spoken, I was nevertheless well known, and 
