in vain,
equipped a canoe, and gave directions for the transport of Madame Godin,
without halting any where, to the Portuguese vessel. Then it was that
the governor of Omaguas, knowing of her coming, and that she was to stop
no where by the way, despatched a canoe to meet her, loaded with
refreshments.

The Portuguese commander, M. de Rebello, hearing of her approach, fitted
out a pirogue, commanded by two of his men, and stored with provisions,
to meet her, which they did at the village of Pevas. This officer, the
better to fulfil the orders of his master, with great labour, and by
doubling the number of oars, worked his vessel up the river as high as
the mission of Loreto, where he received her on board. I learn from her,
that from that instant till she reached Oyapok, throughout a course of
nearly a thousand leagues, she wanted for nothing to render her
comfortable, not even the nicest delicacies, and such as could not be
expected in the country; wine and liquors which she never uses, fish,
game, &c. were supplied by two canoes which preceded the galliot. The
governor of Para, moreover, had sent orders to the chief part of the
stages at which they had to halt, with additional refreshments.

I forgot to mention, that the sufferings of my wife were not at an end,
and that one of her thumbs was in a very bad state, owing to its being
wounded by thorns in the wood, which had not yet been extricated, and
which had not only occasioned an abscess, but had injured the tendon and
even the bone itself. It was proposed to take off the thumb, but, by
dint of care and fermentations, she had only the pain to undergo
occasioned by the extraction of two splinters at San Pablo, but she
entirely lost the use of the tendon. The galliot continued its course to
the fortress of Curupa about sixty leagues above Para. M. de Martel,
knight of the Order of Christ, and major of the garrison of Para,
arrived there the succeeding day, by order of the governor, to take
command of the galliot, and conduct Madame Godin to Fort Oyapok. A
little beyond the mouth of the river, at a spot off the coast where the
currents are very violent, he lost one of his anchors; and as it would
have been imprudent to venture with only one, he sent a boat to Oyapok,
to seek assistance, which was immediately forwarded. Hearing by this
means of the approach of Madame Godin, I left Oyapok on board a galliot
belonging to me, in view of meeting her; and, on the fourth da