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One
useful
result
of
his
former
experiences
was
that
he
could
talk
fluently
in
the
Lingoa
Geral
,
which
is
the
peculiar
talk
,
one-third
Portuguese
and
two-thirds
Indian
,
which
is
current
all
over
Brazil
.
I
have
said
before
that
Lord
John
Roxton
was
a
South
Americomaniac
.
He
could
not
speak
of
that
great
country
without
ardor
,
and
this
ardor
was
infectious
,
for
,
ignorant
as
I
was
,
he
fixed
my
attention
and
stimulated
my
curiosity
.
How
I
wish
I
could
reproduce
the
glamour
of
his
discourses
,
the
peculiar
mixture
of
accurate
knowledge
and
of
racy
imagination
which
gave
them
their
fascination
,
until
even
the
Professor
's
cynical
and
sceptical
smile
would
gradually
vanish
from
his
thin
face
as
he
listened
.
He
would
tell
the
history
of
the
mighty
river
so
rapidly
explored
(
for
some
of
the
first
conquerors
of
Peru
actually
crossed
the
entire
continent
upon
its
waters
)
,
and
yet
so
unknown
in
regard
to
all
that
lay
behind
its
ever-changing
banks
.
"
What
is
there
?
"
he
would
cry
,
pointing
to
the
north
.
"
Wood
and
marsh
and
unpenetrated
jungle
.
Who
knows
what
it
may
shelter
?
And
there
to
the
south
?
A
wilderness
of
swampy
forest
,
where
no
white
man
has
ever
been
.
The
unknown
is
up
against
us
on
every
side
.
Outside
the
narrow
lines
of
the
rivers
what
does
anyone
know
?
Who
will
say
what
is
possible
in
such
a
country
?
Why
should
old
man
Challenger
not
be
right
?
"
At
which
direct
defiance
the
stubborn
sneer
would
reappear
upon
Professor
Summerlee
's
face
,
and
he
would
sit
,
shaking
his
sardonic
head
in
unsympathetic
silence
,
behind
the
cloud
of
his
briar-root
pipe
.
So
much
,
for
the
moment
,
for
my
two
white
companions
,
whose
characters
and
limitations
will
be
further
exposed
,
as
surely
as
my
own
,
as
this
narrative
proceeds
.
But
already
we
have
enrolled
certain
retainers
who
may
play
no
small
part
in
what
is
to
come
.
The
first
is
a
gigantic
negro
named
Zambo
,
who
is
a
black
Hercules
,
as
willing
as
any
horse
,
and
about
as
intelligent
.
Him
we
enlisted
at
Para
,
on
the
recommendation
of
the
steamship
company
,
on
whose
vessels
he
had
learned
to
speak
a
halting
English
.
It
was
at
Para
also
that
we
engaged
Gomez
and
Manuel
,
two
half-breeds
from
up
the
river
,
just
come
down
with
a
cargo
of
redwood
.
They
were
swarthy
fellows
,
bearded
and
fierce
,
as
active
and
wiry
as
panthers
.
Both
of
them
had
spent
their
lives
in
those
upper
waters
of
the
Amazon
which
we
were
about
to
explore
,
and
it
was
this
recommendation
which
had
caused
Lord
John
to
engage
them
.
One
of
them
,
Gomez
,
had
the
further
advantage
that
he
could
speak
excellent
English
.
These
men
were
willing
to
act
as
our
personal
servants
,
to
cook
,
to
row
,
or
to
make
themselves
useful
in
any
way
at
a
payment
of
fifteen
dollars
a
month
.
Besides
these
,
we
had
engaged
three
Mojo
Indians
from
Bolivia
,
who
are
the
most
skilful
at
fishing
and
boat
work
of
all
the
river
tribes
.
The
chief
of
these
we
called
Mojo
,
after
his
tribe
,
and
the
others
are
known
as
Jose
and
Fernando
.
Three
white
men
,
then
,
two
half-breeds
,
one
negro
,
and
three
Indians
made
up
the
personnel
of
the
little
expedition
which
lay
waiting
for
its
instructions
at
Manaos
before
starting
upon
its
singular
quest
.
At
last
,
after
a
weary
week
,
the
day
had
come
and
the
hour
.
I
ask
you
to
picture
the
shaded
sitting-room
of
the
Fazenda
St.
Ignatio
,
two
miles
inland
from
the
town
of
Manaos
.
Outside
lay
the
yellow
,
brassy
glare
of
the
sunshine
,
with
the
shadows
of
the
palm
trees
as
black
and
definite
as
the
trees
themselves
.
The
air
was
calm
,
full
of
the
eternal
hum
of
insects
,
a
tropical
chorus
of
many
octaves
,
from
the
deep
drone
of
the
bee
to
the
high
,
keen
pipe
of
the
mosquito
.
Beyond
the
veranda
was
a
small
cleared
garden
,
bounded
with
cactus
hedges
and
adorned
with
clumps
of
flowering
shrubs
,
round
which
the
great
blue
butterflies
and
the
tiny
humming-birds
fluttered
and
darted
in
crescents
of
sparkling
light
.
Within
we
were
seated
round
the
cane
table
,
on
which
lay
a
sealed
envelope
.
Inscribed
upon
it
,
in
the
jagged
handwriting
of
Professor
Challenger
,
were
the
words
:
--
"
Instructions
to
Lord
John
Roxton
and
party
.
To
be
opened
at
Manaos
upon
July
15th
,
at
12
o'clock
precisely
.
"
Lord
John
had
placed
his
watch
upon
the
table
beside
him
.
