Brazil, the Amazons and the coast .. . is dififerentin the steamboat ports ; bless you, the travelhng naturaHst isno uncommon visitor there, and the people never think oflionizing him. But they lionized me at Curua, as never abug-hunter was lionized be-fore. I walked about, se-renely aware that I wasthe most important man inthe place. The sensible countrypeople went about in lightcotton clothes ; the womenwith skirt and chemise, themen with trousers andshirt and a broad-brimmedstraw hat. Braz Correaand one or two others hadcoats, which they wore onstate occasions ; and mostof the well-to-do pe
Brazil, the Amazons and the coast .. . is dififerentin the steamboat ports ; bless you, the travelhng naturaHst isno uncommon visitor there, and the people never think oflionizing him. But they lionized me at Curua, as never abug-hunter was lionized be-fore. I walked about, se-renely aware that I wasthe most important man inthe place. The sensible countrypeople went about in lightcotton clothes ; the womenwith skirt and chemise, themen with trousers andshirt and a broad-brimmedstraw hat. Braz Correaand one or two others hadcoats, which they wore onstate occasions ; and mostof the well-to-do peasantsw^ere possessors of shoes,which they carried in theirhands quite as often as ontheir feet. Shoes are gall-ing, and should be usedonly in company. I lived with one of theprincipal storekeepers, a nearly pure black, and one of the few of his race that I haveseen in positions of trust; he was employed by an Alenquermerchant to superintend this branch establishment, and a verysteady and hard-working fellow he was. Every day I walked. An Indian Mother. 308 BRAZIL. out into the forest. It was primeval forest, untouched, ex-cept close to the village, and the highest and most luxuriantthat I ever saw, even on the Amazons ; more than a hundredfeet on the level, with individual trees rising far above ground here was carpeted thickly with ferns and delicatelycopodiums ; the tree-trunks were mossy and always damp ;in the thick forests the dew stood on the leaves until nearmid-day. Perhaps this damp atmosphere and more luxuri-ant growth betoken the true limits of the Upper Amazonianwoods ; to the eastward the forest is not so high, and it ismore or less interrupted by open campo lands, as we haveseen near Paracary. At Curua the ground is level and notvery high, though out of reach of the river floods. It is arich, sandy clay; in places there is black loam with frag-ments of pottery, like that at Taperinha. Everywhere in the Curua forest there are narrow pathsand trails, made
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