CONTENTS.
| CHAPTER I. | |
| pará. | |
| Arrival at Pará — Appearance of the city and its environs — The inhabitants and their costumes — Vegetation — Sensitive plants —Lizards — Ants and other insects — Birds —Climate— Food of the inhabitants | 1 |
| CHAPTER II. | |
| pará. | |
| Festas — Portuguese and Brazilian currency — M. Borlaz' estate— Walk to the rice-mills — The virgin forest, its plants and insects — Milk-tree — Saw and rice-mills — Caripe or pottery-tree — India-rubber-tree — Flowers and trees in blossom— Sailba ants, wasps, and chegoes — Journey by water to Magoary — The monkeys — The commandante at Laranjeiras — Vampire bats — The timber-trade — Boa constrictor and sloth | 13 |
| CHAPTER III. | |
| the tocantíns. | |
| Canoe, stores, and crew — River Mojú — Igaripé Miri — Cametá— Senhor Gomez and his establishment — Search for a dinner — Jambouassú — Polite letter — Baião and its inhabitants — A swarm of wasps— Enter the rocky district — The Mutuca — Difficulty of getting men — A village without houses — Catching an alligator — Duck-shooting — Aroyas, and the Falls — A nocturnal concert — Blue macaws — Turtles' eggs— A slight accident — Capabilities of the country — Return to Pará | 35 |
| CHAPTER IV. | |
| mexiana and marajó. | |
| Visit to Olería— Habits of birds— Voyage to Mexiana — Arrival — Birds — Description of the island— Population— Slaves, their treatment and habits— Journey to the Lake— Beautiful stream — Fish and birds at the lake — Catching alligators — Strange sounds, and abundance of animal life — Walk back — Jaguar meat — Visit to Jungcal in Marajó — Embarking cattle — Ilha das Frechas | 57 |
| CHAPTER V. | |
| the guamá and capim rivers. | |
| Natterer's hunter, Luiz — Birds and insects — Prepare for a journey — First sight of the Piroroco — St. Domingo — Senhor Calistro — Slaves and slavery — Anecdote — Cane-field — Journey into the forest — Game — Explanation of the Piroroco — Return to Para — Bell-birds and yellow parrots | 77 |
| CHAPTER VI. | |
| santarem and montealegre. | |
| Leave Pará — Enter the Amazon — Its peculiar features — Arrive at Santarem — The town and its inhabitants — Voyage to Montealegre — Mosquito plague and its remedy — Journey to the Serras — A cattle estate — Rocks, picture writings, and cave — The Victoria regia. — Mandiocca fields — A festa — Return to Santarem — Beautiful insects — Curious tidal phenomenon — Leave Santarem — Obydos — Villa Nova — A kind priest — Serpa — Christmas Day on the Amazon | 92 |
| CHAPTER VII. | |
| barra do rio negro and the solimões. | |
| Appearance of the Rio Negro — The city of Barra, its trade and its inhabitants — Journey up the Rio Negro — The Lingoa Geral — The umbrella bird — Mode of life of the Indians — Return to Barra — Strangers in the city — Visit to the Solimões — The Gapó — Manaquery —Country life—Curl-crested Araçaris— Vultures and Oncas—Tobacco growing and manufacture— The Cow-fish—Senhor Brandão—A fishing party with Senhor Henrique—Letters from England | 112 |
