The details of his many voyages throughout the whole north of Brazil afforded him numerous subjects to talk about.

The man had certainly seen a great deal, but his observations were those of a skeptic, and he often shocked the straightforward people who were listening to him.

It should be said that he showed himself much impressed toward Minha.

But these attentions, although they were displeasing to Manoel, were not sufficiently marked for him to interfere.

On the other hand, Minha felt for him an instinctive repulsion which she was at no pains to conceal.
On the 5th of July the mouth of the Tunantins appeared on the left bank, forming an estuary of some four hundred feet across, in which it pours its blackish waters, coming from the west-northwest, after having watered the territories of the Cacena Indians.