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THE NATURALIST ON THE RIVER AMAZONS.

A RECORD OF ADVENTURES, HABITS OF ANIMALS, SKETCHES OF BRAZILIAN AND INDIAN LIFE, AND ASPECTS OF NATURE UNDER THE EQUATOR, DURING ELEVEN YEARS OF TRAVEL.

BY

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HENRY WALTER BATES, F.L.S.,

(Assistant Secretary to the Royal Geographical Society of England.)

PARTS I. AND II. COMPLETE.

CHAPTER I.

PARÁ. Arrival-Aspect of the country-The Pará river-First walk in the suburbs of Pará-Birds, Lizards, and Insects of the suburbs-Leaf-carrying Ant-Sketch of the climate, history, and present condition of

Pará.

shore, the shallowness of the water far out around the mouth of the great river not permitting in safety a nearer approach; and the signal was hoisted for a pilot. It was with deep interest that my companion and myself, both now about to see and examine the beauties of a tropical country for the first time, I EMBARKED at Liverpool, with Mr. Wal-gazed on the land where I, at least, eventually lace, in a mall trading vessel, on the 26th of April, 1848; and, after a swift passage from the Irish Channel to the equator, arrived, on the 26th of May, off Salinas. This is the pilot-station for vessels bound to Pará, the only port of entry to the vast region watered by the Amazons. It is a small village, formerly a missionary settlement of the Jesuits, situated a few miles to the eastward of the Pará river. Here the ship anchored in the open sea, at a distance of six miles from the

spent eleven of the best years of my life. To the eastward the country was not remarkable in appearance, being slightly undulating, with bare sand-hills and scattered trees; but to the westward, stretching toward the mouth of the river, we could see through the captain's glass a long line of forest, rising apparently out of the water; a densely-packed mass of tall trees, broken into groups, and finally into single trees, as it dwindled away in the distance. This was the frontier, in