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The
very
next
day
we
did
actually
make
our
start
upon
this
remarkable
expedition
.
We
found
that
all
our
possessions
fitted
very
easily
into
the
two
canoes
,
and
we
divided
our
personnel
,
six
in
each
,
taking
the
obvious
precaution
in
the
interests
of
peace
of
putting
one
Professor
into
each
canoe
.
Personally
,
I
was
with
Challenger
,
who
was
in
a
beatific
humor
,
moving
about
as
one
in
a
silent
ecstasy
and
beaming
benevolence
from
every
feature
.
I
have
had
some
experience
of
him
in
other
moods
,
however
,
and
shall
be
the
less
surprised
when
the
thunderstorms
suddenly
come
up
amidst
the
sunshine
.
If
it
is
impossible
to
be
at
your
ease
,
it
is
equally
impossible
to
be
dull
in
his
company
,
for
one
is
always
in
a
state
of
half-tremulous
doubt
as
to
what
sudden
turn
his
formidable
temper
may
take
.
For
two
days
we
made
our
way
up
a
good-sized
river
some
hundreds
of
yards
broad
,
and
dark
in
color
,
but
transparent
,
so
that
one
could
usually
see
the
bottom
.
The
affluents
of
the
Amazon
are
,
half
of
them
,
of
this
nature
,
while
the
other
half
are
whitish
and
opaque
,
the
difference
depending
upon
the
class
of
country
through
which
they
have
flowed
.
The
dark
indicate
vegetable
decay
,
while
the
others
point
to
clayey
soil
.
Twice
we
came
across
rapids
,
and
in
each
case
made
a
portage
of
half
a
mile
or
so
to
avoid
them
.
The
woods
on
either
side
were
primeval
,
which
are
more
easily
penetrated
than
woods
of
the
second
growth
,
and
we
had
no
great
difficulty
in
carrying
our
canoes
through
them
.
How
shall
I
ever
forget
the
solemn
mystery
of
it
?
The
height
of
the
trees
and
the
thickness
of
the
boles
exceeded
anything
which
I
in
my
town-bred
life
could
have
imagined
,
shooting
upwards
in
magnificent
columns
until
,
at
an
enormous
distance
above
our
heads
,
we
could
dimly
discern
the
spot
where
they
threw
out
their
side-branches
into
Gothic
upward
curves
which
coalesced
to
form
one
great
matted
roof
of
verdure
,
through
which
only
an
occasional
golden
ray
of
sunshine
shot
downwards
to
trace
a
thin
dazzling
line
of
light
amidst
the
majestic
obscurity
.
As
we
walked
noiselessly
amid
the
thick
,
soft
carpet
of
decaying
vegetation
the
hush
fell
upon
our
souls
which
comes
upon
us
in
the
twilight
of
the
Abbey
,
and
even
Professor
Challenger
's
full-chested
notes
sank
into
a
whisper
.
Alone
,
I
should
have
been
ignorant
of
the
names
of
these
giant
growths
,
but
our
men
of
science
pointed
out
the
cedars
,
the
great
silk
cotton
trees
,
and
the
redwood
trees
,
with
all
that
profusion
of
various
plants
which
has
made
this
continent
the
chief
supplier
to
the
human
race
of
those
gifts
of
Nature
which
depend
upon
the
vegetable
world
,
while
it
is
the
most
backward
in
those
products
which
come
from
animal
life
.
Vivid
orchids
and
wonderful
colored
lichens
smoldered
upon
the
swarthy
tree-trunks
and
where
a
wandering
shaft
of
light
fell
full
upon
the
golden
allamanda
,
the
scarlet
star-clusters
of
the
tacsonia
,
or
the
rich
deep
blue
of
ipomaea
,
the
effect
was
as
a
dream
of
fairyland
.
In
these
great
wastes
of
forest
,
life
,
which
abhors
darkness
,
struggles
ever
upwards
to
the
light
.
Every
plant
,
even
the
smaller
ones
,
curls
and
writhes
to
the
green
surface
,
twining
itself
round
its
stronger
and
taller
brethren
in
the
effort
.
Climbing
plants
are
monstrous
and
luxuriant
,
but
others
which
have
never
been
known
to
climb
elsewhere
learn
the
art
as
an
escape
from
that
somber
shadow
,
so
that
the
common
nettle
,
the
jasmine
,
and
even
the
jacitara
palm
tree
can
be
seen
circling
the
stems
of
the
cedars
and
striving
to
reach
their
crowns
.
Of
animal
life
there
was
no
movement
amid
the
majestic
vaulted
aisles
which
stretched
from
us
as
we
walked
,
but
a
constant
movement
far
above
our
heads
told
of
that
multitudinous
world
of
snake
and
monkey
,
bird
and
sloth
,
which
lived
in
the
sunshine
,
and
looked
down
in
wonder
at
our
tiny
,
dark
,
stumbling
figures
in
the
obscure
depths
immeasurably
below
them
.
At
dawn
and
at
sunset
the
howler
monkeys
screamed
together
and
the
parrakeets
broke
into
shrill
chatter
,
but
during
the
hot
hours
of
the
day
only
the
full
drone
of
insects
,
like
the
beat
of
a
distant
surf
,
filled
the
ear
,
while
nothing
moved
amid
the
solemn
vistas
of
stupendous
trunks
,
fading
away
into
the
darkness
which
held
us
in
.
Once
some
bandy-legged
,
lurching
creature
,
an
ant-eater
or
a
bear
,
scuttled
clumsily
amid
the
shadows
.
It
was
the
only
sign
of
earth
life
which
I
saw
in
this
great
Amazonian
forest
.
And
yet
there
were
indications
that
even
human
life
itself
was
not
far
from
us
in
those
mysterious
recesses
.
On
the
third
day
out
we
were
aware
of
a
singular
deep
throbbing
in
the
air
,
rhythmic
and
solemn
,
coming
and
going
fitfully
throughout
the
morning
.
The
two
boats
were
paddling
within
a
few
yards
of
each
other
when
first
we
heard
it
,
and
our
Indians
remained
motionless
,
as
if
they
had
been
turned
to
bronze
,
listening
intently
with
expressions
of
terror
upon
their
faces
.
"
What
is
it
,
then
?
"
I
asked
.
"
Drums
,
"
said
Lord
John
,
carelessly
;
"
war
drums
.
I
have
heard
them
before
.
"
"
Yes
,
sir
,
war
drums
,
"
said
Gomez
,
the
half-breed
.
"
Wild
Indians
,
bravos
,
not
mansos
;
they
watch
us
every
mile
of
the
way
;
kill
us
if
they
can
.
"
"
How
can
they
watch
us
?
"
I
asked
,
gazing
into
the
dark
,
motionless
void
.
The
half-breed
shrugged
his
broad
shoulders
.
