He was a very intelligent fellow--what one might call a "double right-hander"-- that is to say, he could do everything, and could do everything well.

As merry as Lina, always singing, and always ready with some good-natured joke, he was not long in being liked by all.
But it was with the young mulatto that he claimed to have contracted the heaviest obligation.
"A famous idea that of yours, Miss Lina," he was constantly saying, "to play at 'following the liana!' It is a capital game even if you do not always find a poor chap of a barber at the end!" "Quite a chance, Mr.Fragoso," would laughingly reply Lina; "I assure you, you owe me nothing!" "What! nothing! I owe you my life, and I want it prolonged for a hundred years, and that my recollection of the fact may endure even longer! You see, it is not my trade to be hanged! If I tried my hand at it, it was through necessity.

But, on consideration, I would rather die of hunger, and before quite going off I should try a little pasturage with the brutes! As for this liana, it is a lien between us, and so you will see!" The conversation generally took a joking turn, but at the bottom Fragoso was very grateful to the mulatto for having taken the initiative in his rescue, and Lina was not insensible to the attentions of the brave fellow, who was as straightforward, frank, and good-looking as she was.
Their friendship gave rise to many a pleasant, "Ah, ah!" on the part of Benito, old Cybele, and others.
To return to the Jangada.

After some discussion it was decided, as the voyage was to be of some months' duration, to make it as complete and comfortable as possible.

The Garral family, comprising the father, mother, daughter, Benito, Manoel, and the servants, Cybele and Lina, were to live in a separate house.