Brazil, the Amazons and the coast .. . rk forest, where the birds andinsects hide themselves, and you seem walking in a land without motion or sound, a wilderness of trees alone. Shortly above its mouth, the Paituna receives the littleIgarape dErerc, which flows down from a range of hills onthe north. These hills form a crescent; first there is Erere, * Ardea candidissima. tArdeaalba. J Ardea exilis ? ? Ardea Herodias. | Platerhynchus. 1 Plotus anhinga. ** Anas nioschata ? ++ Anas autumnalis. % X Palamedea cornuta. 350 BRAZIL. nearly a thousand feet high, with the long spur of Paitunastretchin
Brazil, the Amazons and the coast .. . rk forest, where the birds andinsects hide themselves, and you seem walking in a land without motion or sound, a wilderness of trees alone. Shortly above its mouth, the Paituna receives the littleIgarape dErerc, which flows down from a range of hills onthe north. These hills form a crescent; first there is Erere, * Ardea candidissima. tArdeaalba. J Ardea exilis ? ? Ardea Herodias. | Platerhynchus. 1 Plotus anhinga. ** Anas nioschata ? ++ Anas autumnalis. % X Palamedea cornuta. 350 BRAZIL. nearly a thousand feet high, with the long spur of Paitunastretching off into the lowland ; then Arochi, and the conicalpeak oi MacJiird, and the lower hills oi Paraizo, Sao JiUido,Uritcjiry and Bnttin, sweeping around by the Maecuru. Inthe other direction the curve can be traced still farther,through the low ridges of Uacarc and Airi to the rock-massof Tajuri; thence, probably, the circleis completed in other ridges, which wecannot distinguish here. The hills arethe remnants of a great dome of Serra dErete, ffom the Northeast. the core of which has been washed away, leaving the plainof Erere in the middle ; all through the range we find sand-stone strata, dipping away from the plain. The Paituna is excessively crooked, and it varies greatlyin width. Often there is a narrow channel, through floodedmeadows on either side. The whole country is full of lakes,whereof the largest are no more than a mile across. Weturn off from the main channel at sunset, to seek a shorterpassage through these lakes ; the men push the boat throughthe grass with their long poles, for the land is so low herethat it is still covered with water, although it is late in Au- THE MAECURU. 351 gust, and the flood season is passed ; these meadows are dry-only during two or three months of each year. The lakesand pools are covered with pontederias, and great, whitelilies. Once or twice we pass a Victoria regia; the budsare just opening ; in the morning the flowers will
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