Brazil, the Amazons and the coast . y are cut off as required. Many persons prefer this tauaripaper to any other for smoking. When burning, it has adistinctly sweet flavor and no disagreeable smoke. Altogether, we are quite loaded down when we leavecamp in the morning. The guides have woven deep/^;/;/^^?/baskets of palm-leaves;they are strapped likeknapsacks to our shoul-ders, and further sup-ported with a bandaround the we trudge homewearily ; taking nearlytwo days with the marchbefore we come out bythe great Inaja palm atthe civilized end of theforest-path. I supposethat our fart
Brazil, the Amazons and the coast . y are cut off as required. Many persons prefer this tauaripaper to any other for smoking. When burning, it has adistinctly sweet flavor and no disagreeable smoke. Altogether, we are quite loaded down when we leavecamp in the morning. The guides have woven deep/^;/;/^^?/baskets of palm-leaves;they are strapped likeknapsacks to our shoul-ders, and further sup-ported with a bandaround the we trudge homewearily ; taking nearlytwo days with the marchbefore we come out bythe great Inaja palm atthe civilized end of theforest-path. I supposethat our farthest pointwas less than thirty milesfrom the bluff, or fortyfrom Santarem; but noone has been so far be-fore ; only to the south-east twenty or thirtymiles, on the Rio Curua, there is a colony of fugitive slaves,and white traders may have ascended that river. Young May is building a shed, or a mill-house, or whatnot; he explores the forest every day for timber. There aretrees, and plenty of them, close about the house, but they are. Inaja Palms. 200 BRAZIL. not those that he wants; he must have/^^^ darco,^ jaca-randd,^ itauba^X the hard, time-resisting woods that are proofagainst rot and insects. Building his shed with ordinarytimber, he would have to rebuild it in a year. The dampair and soil will rot any but the best woods. The whiteants and boring beetles would riddle other beams until theyfell to pieces of their own weight; for the uprights especially,only a few kinds will do, and these are scattered far and mile back from the clearing he may find the tree that hewants; he cuts it in a half-days hard work, for the woodis like iron ; cuts it again under the branches, and then dragsthe log out painfully with his ox-team. After that hemust hew it into the shape required, for the single saw-millof the colony is too far away to be of use to him. Alto-gether, his shed will cost him at least five times as muchwork as a similar one would in a pine forest; to be sure, itis bu
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