shing--Rocky Barriers--Venus pp. 112-128

CHAPTER IX
Dogs--Macaws--Crocodiles--A Serious Accident: Men flung into a
Whirlpool--The Loss of Provisions and Valuable Baggage--More
Dangerous Rapids--Wonderful Scenery--Dangerous Work--On the
Edge of a Waterfall--A Risky Experience--Bravery of Author's
Brazilian Followers--A High Wind from the North-East--A Big
Lake pp. 129-150

CHAPTER X
The Point of Junction of the Arinos and Juruena Rivers--Elfrida Landor
Island--Terrible Days of Navigation--Immense Islands--An Old
Indian Camp--A Fight between a Dog and an _Ariranha_--George
Rex Island--A Huge _Sucuriu_ Snake pp. 151-164

CHAPTER XI
A Family of _Ariranhas_--Attacked by them--Three Nasty Rapids--Beautiful
Sand Beaches--Exciting Experiences--Going down a Thundering
Cataract--Alcides' Narrow Escape--A Night's Work in the Midst of a
Foaming Rapid in order to rescue the half-submerged Canoe--Filippe's
Courage--Visited by a Snake 20 ft. long pp. 165-181

CHAPTER XII
A Tiny Globular Cloudlet warning us--Tossed in a Merciless Manner--Saved
by Providence--Vicious Waters--A Diabolical Spot--A Highly Dangerous
Crossing--A Terrible Channel--More Bad Rapids--On the Verge of a Fatal
Drop down a Waterfall--Saved in Time--A Magnificent Sight--The August
Falls--A Mutiny--The Canoe, weighing 2,000 lb., taken across the Forest
over a Hill-range pp. 182-206

CHAPTER XIII
A Double Whirlpool--Incessant Rapids of Great Magnitude--A Dangerous
Channel--Nothing to Eat--Another Disaster pp. 207-219

CHAPTER XIV
In the Hands of Providence--A Mutiny--Another Mutiny--Foodless--Hard
and Dangerous Work--A Near Approach to Hades--Making an
Artificial Channel among Thousands of Boulders--An Awe-inspiring
Scene--The Fall of S. Simao--A Revolt pp. 220-234

CHAPTER XV
Mutiny and Threats--Wasted Efforts--Awful Waters--The Canoe escapes
in a Violent Rapid--Another Mutiny--The Canoe recovered--An
Appalling Vortex--The Fall of S. Simao--Cutting an Artificial
Channel in the Rocks pp. 235-248

CHAPTER XVI
At Death's Door--Mundurucu Indians--All Author's Followers poisoned
by Wild Fruit--Anxious Moments--Seringueiros--A Dying Jewish
Trader--The Mori Brothers--A New Hat--Where the Tres Barras
meets the Arinos-Juruena--The Canoe abandoned pp. 249-265

CHAPTER XVII
A Fiscal Agency--Former Atrocities--The Apiacar Indians--Plentiful
Rubber--Unexploited Regions--Precious Fossils thrown away by
Author's Followers--A Terrific Storm--Author's Canoe