Manchurian Books

The commandant of San Pablo d'Oliven?a assured the adventurer that
the authorities were not now absent from Manaos, and he even asked
Joam Garral to convey to them his compliments. In all probability the
raft would arrive before the town in seven weeks, or a little later,
say about the 20th or the 25th of August.
The guests of the fazender took leave of the Garral family toward the
evening, and the following morning, that of the 3d of July, the
jangada recommenced its descent of the river.
At noon they passed on the left the mouth of the Yacurupa. This
tributary, properly speaking, is a true canal, for it discharges its
waters into the I?a, which is itself an affluent of the Amazon.
A peculiar phenomenon, for the river displaces itself to feed its own
tributaries!
Toward three o'clock in the afternoon the giant raft passed the mouth
of the Jandiatuba, which brings its magnificent black waters from the
southwest, and discharges them into the main artery by a mouth of
four hundred meters in extent, after having watered the territories
of the Culino Indians.


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