The sail was hoisted.
They took the same course as in the morning, across the lake fed by the black waters of the Rio Teffe, which, according to the Indians, is navigable toward the southwest for forty days' journey.

At eight o'clock the priogue regained the mooring-place and hailed the jangada.
As soon as Lina could get Fragoso aside-- "Have you seen anything suspicious ?" she inquired.
"Nothing, Miss Lina," he replied; "Torres has scarcely left his cabin, where he has been reading and writing." "He did not get into the house or the dining-room, as I feared ?" "No, all the time he was not in his cabin he was in the bow of the raft." "And what was he doing ?" "Holding an old piece of paper in his hand, consulting it with great attention, and muttering a lot of incomprehensible words." "All that is not so unimportant as you think, Mr.Fragoso.

These readings and writings and old papers have their interest! He is neither a professor nor a lawyer, this reader and writer!" "You are right!" "Still watch him, Mr.Fragoso!" "I will watch him always, Miss Lina," replied Fragoso.
On the morrow, the 27th of July, at daybreak, Benito gave the pilot the signal to start.
Away between the islands, in the Bay of Arenapo, the mouth of the Japura, six thousand six hundred feet wide, was seen for an instant.
This large tributary comes into the Amazon through eight mouths, as if it were pouring into some gulf or ocean.

But its waters come from afar, and it is the mountains of the republic of Ecuador which start them on a course that there are no falls to break until two hundred and ten leagues from its junction with the main stream.
All this day was spent in descending to the island of Yapura, after which the river, less interfered with, makes navigation much easier.

The current is not so rapid and the islets are easily avoided, so that there were no touchings or groundings.
The next day the jangada coasted along by vast beaches formed by undulating high domes, which served as the barriers of immense pasture grounds, in which the whole of the cattle in Europe could be raised and fed.