The boards were hidden beneath hangings of most agreeable variety.

These hangings were made of valuable bark, that of the _"tuturis,"_ which is raised up in large folds like the brocades and damasks and softest and richest materials of our modern looms.

On the floors of the rooms were jaguar skins, with wonderful spots, and thick monkey furs of exquisite fleeciness.

Light curtains of the russet silk, produced by the _"sumauma,"_ hung from the windows.

The beds, enveloped in mosquito curtains, had their pillows, mattresses, and bolsters filled with that fresh and elastic substance which in the Upper Amazon is yielded by the bombax.
Throughout on the shelves and side-tables were little odds and ends, brought from Rio Janeiro or Belem, those most precious to Minha being such as had come from Manoel.