On account of the rocks it can only be navigated by small boats and rafts.
As you proceed along the banks, the scenery gradually changes.

The fore-part of the mountain ranges subside into low hills, the mountains themselves retreat, and the nearer you approach Aldea do Pedro, the wider and more open becomes the valley.

In the background alone are still visible splendid mountain ranges, from which rises a mountain higher than the rest, somewhat more naked, and almost isolated.

To this my guide pointed, and gave me to understand that our way lay over it, in order to reach the Puris, who lived beyond.
About noon I arrived at Aldea do Pedro, which I found to be a small village with a stone church; the latter might, perhaps, contain 200 persons.

I had intended continuing my journey to the Puris the same day, but my guide was attacked with pains in his knee, and could not ride further.