o his
face, seemed, by the peculiar sounds she made, to be chiding him for his
desertion. When he offered her some fruit, she declined to take it;
evidently, however, not from anger, but because she had had an ample
breakfast on something more to her taste which she had found on the way.

Only a few minutes had passed, when I saw Maco and Kallolo looking
anxiously through the trees to the eastward, and talking together,
having caught sight of some object moving through the forest. From the
few words I overheard, they were expressing their fears that the savages
had again found us out. Suddenly their countenances brightened; and
immediately afterwards we observed Quacko swinging himself amid the
pendent vines, and running along the branches, making his way rapidly
towards us! He sprang into Kallolo's arms, and began to chatter
eagerly, as if he had had a great deal to communicate. Whether he was
telling the native about the savages, or complaining that he had been
deserted, and begging that it might not happen again, I could not
ascertain, nor did Kallolo think fit to enlighten us; but he looked
truly delighted at having got back his friend.

Uncle Paul now gave the signal to start. Maco and Sambo led the way, as
they had only lately passed down the channel, and were better acquainted
with it than Kallolo, who brought up the rear. As before, my sensations
were those of a person swimming in a dream. I felt myself floating
through the smooth, dark waters, and striking out with my arms and legs,
and moving onwards. I saw my uncle ahead; and the green trees, with
their vast stems and intricate tracery of sepos and vines, with
numberless parasites hanging from them of every variety of fantastic
form, on either side of me; and the bright blue sky overhead; and birds
of gorgeous plumage, uttering strange notes, flying backwards and
forwards. Here and there, tall trunks had fallen prostrate, or were
inclining at various angles, and suspended by a network of sepos to the
boughs of their neighbours,--some actually crossing the stream and
forming bridges from side to side. Occasionally, troops of monkeys came
gambolling along among the branches, peering down upon us with curious
eyes, skipping and frolicking about, and chattering and screeching as if
angrily demanding what business we had to intrude on their retreats.
Now we passed among cylindrical trunks, rising like columns out of the
deep water. Then there came a s