. The lower Amazon; a narrative of explorations in the little known regions of the state of Pará, on the lower Amazon . ^ during my first visit to theseregions in 1910, have now been considerablyreduced, due to the general drop in rubber prices. Here are some actual prices in American cur-rency : cofTee $ .20 per pound sugar 15 per pound farina i .65 for a basket rice 12 per pound beans 12 kerosene 1-65 5 gal. can .44 Winchester cartridges for 100 matches 06 a box salt for 30 lbs. fresh eggs 7 to 8 cts. apiece Proceeding on our cruise between the beautifulislands, I am filled with ad
. The lower Amazon; a narrative of explorations in the little known regions of the state of Pará, on the lower Amazon . ^ during my first visit to theseregions in 1910, have now been considerablyreduced, due to the general drop in rubber prices. Here are some actual prices in American cur-rency : cofTee $ .20 per pound sugar 15 per pound farina i .65 for a basket rice 12 per pound beans 12 kerosene 1-65 5 gal. can .44 Winchester cartridges for 100 matches 06 a box salt for 30 lbs. fresh eggs 7 to 8 cts. apiece Proceeding on our cruise between the beautifulislands, I am filled with admiration by the luxuri-ant way in which the hand of mother Nature hasfurnished such splendours of the floral kingdom,but I sadly confess that the dwellers in the midstof all this abundance are most inadequatelyequipped to reap the benefits of their CHAPTER VI Onward by Canoe 3^HE launch keeps on up the Tocantinsand we arrive finally at an islandcalled Xininga. This is the laststopping-place, as there are no im-portant centres of population above,accessible by launch. In the rainy season thetwo towns Alcobaga and Arumateua, situatedfarther up the Tocantins, are visited by launches,but at this time of the year the river, beyond thisisland of Xininga, is not navigable for vessels ofmore than four feet draft. Here at Xininga I get off with my caboclo helperSkelly and put our baggage on the bank. Iimmediately visit the local merchant, a Hebrewwho immigrated long ago from Algiers. This manreceives me well, introduces me to his family, andeven invites me to take supper with him. Hepromptly lends me a canoe with a tolda, or roof,over part of it and gives me a paddler to accom-pany me farther up-river. I agreed to pay thisfellow fifteen milreis, or about five dollars American,at the termination of the trip which I judged wouldlast about
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