Brazil, the Amazons and the coast . eculiar to the ground ;you see patauds || taking the place of the uauassiis ; andback of all is the great, rolling forest, the Brazil-nut treestowering over it with domes a hundred feet across : all thisin contrast to the sunny meadows, and the placid lake, andthe cloudless sky. Lake jMacura receives a little tortuous igarape ; it is nar-row, and deep, and swift, navigable for large canoes, and •* Mauritia carana. t Cassicus cristatus ? X Trupialis Guianensis. § Cassicus, sp. Ij CEnocarpus pataua. 3i8 BRAZIL. the banks are sharply cut. These features disting
Brazil, the Amazons and the coast . eculiar to the ground ;you see patauds || taking the place of the uauassiis ; andback of all is the great, rolling forest, the Brazil-nut treestowering over it with domes a hundred feet across : all thisin contrast to the sunny meadows, and the placid lake, andthe cloudless sky. Lake jMacura receives a little tortuous igarape ; it is nar-row, and deep, and swift, navigable for large canoes, and •* Mauritia carana. t Cassicus cristatus ? X Trupialis Guianensis. § Cassicus, sp. Ij CEnocarpus pataua. 3i8 BRAZIL. the banks are sharply cut. These features distinguish itfrom cabeceiras, that come from springs in the terra firme,and subside into rows of pools when they enter the points ofvarzea. TheManiatirii is a fiiro, flowingfrom the Ama-z o n s belowObidos ; it istwenty-fivemiles long, atleast, and com-municates witha dozen LakeMacura itswaters jointhose of theCurua, and sothe highlandriver, before itflows into LakeCurua, gets itslittle contribu-tion of Ama-zonian water,. Highland Stream. just as the Tapajos does. This is a rule which hardly varieswith the Amazonian tributaries. I made the acquaintance of the Macura peasants ; simplepeople, like the rest, and lazy, of course. These afternoonlandscapes have such an endless repose about them : nomore idea of activity than one of the cows, dreamily chew- THE CURUA. 319 ing her cud out there on the meadow. The trees are asleep,the plains are asleep, the lake is asleep ; and mine hostlounges in his hammock, and is drowsy, whether he will ownit or not. Sit you in another hammock, and drowse orsleep ; do not disturb his repose : so shall it be sweet. But back of the forest I found a bit of the outside morning I walked up to the head of this tongue ofmeadow-land that I have described ; it ended in a strip ofbaixa forest, through which there flowed a bright, sparklingstream ; you would not have recognized it in the sluggishpools below. In the baixa I found tree-fern
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