Brazil, the Amazons and the coast . -trees, attract our attention bytheir strange forms; the inongubas% by their mottled, grayand green trunks, and deciduous foliage; the imbanbas\ bytheir white, branching stems, like candelabras, and their great, * Inga, sp. var. t Leguminosae. \ Clusia, sp. § Bombax monguba. 3 Cecropia, sp. var. 356 BRAZIL. palmate, silver-lined leaves. Sand-banks here and there aremarked by hnes oi aiacd bushes,* half submerged. Our life settles into a pleasant routine ; at every camp the men fishor hunt, andour forest-table is pret-ty well sup-plied. Thefish are gen-erally
Brazil, the Amazons and the coast . -trees, attract our attention bytheir strange forms; the inongubas% by their mottled, grayand green trunks, and deciduous foliage; the imbanbas\ bytheir white, branching stems, like candelabras, and their great, * Inga, sp. var. t Leguminosae. \ Clusia, sp. § Bombax monguba. 3 Cecropia, sp. var. 356 BRAZIL. palmate, silver-lined leaves. Sand-banks here and there aremarked by hnes oi aiacd bushes,* half submerged. Our life settles into a pleasant routine ; at every camp the men fishor hunt, andour forest-table is pret-ty well sup-plied. Thefish are gen-erally large/ iranlias ^which are sonumeroushere thatbathing inthe river isquite out ofthe takeshis bow andarrows, andperches on - some over-Indian Shooting Fish. t hangingbranch or water-washed root to shoot curiniatds and Uiaui-arcs; he stands like a statue until a fish passes underneath ;then the bow is drawn, quick as light, and the arrow hardlyleaves a ripple as it cuts through the water. Often the shots. * Psidium, sp. THE MAECURU. 35/ are unsuccessful, for this kind of sport requires no little skill;the fisherman must allow for the refraction of the water, orhe will certainly miss his mark. Besides the fish, we areoften treated to a mareca duck,* for the birds are numerousabout the river and its lakes. The young are pretty, plushythings, quite active and vigorous. Once the men shoot atan old duck, missing her, but cruelly wounding some of thelittle ones about her. The mother only swims off a fewyards, calling pitifully, but bravely holding her ground as wecome up ; the father appears from the woods and echoes hercries. I think even our Indians are struck with remorse, forthey do not molest the birds further. Our course now is nearly due north, by woods all aflamewith the taixi-blossoms. Little streams flow in, here andthere, from lakes on either side. Maripa points out the Iga-rape de Turard, and, farther north, the Igarape de Ctcjiibim^outlets of
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