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VOYAGE TO JAUARITE. 
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call him back, or make him fulfil his engagement with 
me. Soon after Jesuino left, having first sent five In- 
dians to take me to J aiiarite ; so I started immediately 
after him. The men however had had instructions to go 
with me only a short distance, and then leave me where 
I could not procure any more ; and about noon, much to 
my surprise, they got into a little oba, and intimated 
their intention to return, saying that they had only been 
told to come so far. I had overtaken Jesuino at this 
place, and now appealed to him ; but though the men 
would have immediately obeyed an order from him, he 
refused to give it, telling me that he had put them in my 
canoe, and now I must arrange with them as well as I 
could. I accordingly told the Indians, that if they came 
on with me to Jauarite, I would pay them well, but 
that, if they left me at this place, they should not have a 
single fish-hook ; but they knew very well what Senhor 
Jesuino wanted, so without another word they paddled 
off, leaving me to get on as I could. I had now only 
one man and one boy in each canoe, to pass rapids which 
required six or eight good paddles to shoot with safety ; 
but staying here was useless, so we went on, — drifting 
down the stream after Senhor Jesuino, who, no doubt, 
rejoiced in the idea that I should probably lose my ca- 
noes, if not my life, in the caxoeiras, and thought him- 
self well revenged on the stranger, who had dared to buy 
the canoe he had wanted to purchase. 
In the afternoon we passed a caxoeira with consider- 
able danger, and then, luckily, persuaded some Indians 
at a sitio to come with us to Jauarite. In the afternoon 
I staid at several houses, purchasing fowls, parrots. 
