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On the morrow, the 26th of August, as soon as the sun rose, Manoel and Fragoso, who had never left Benito for an instant during this terrible night, attempted to distract his attention from his despair. After taking him aside they made him understand that there was no time to be lost that they must make up their minds to act. "Benito," said Manoel, "pull yourself together! Be a man again!
And then the vatems, the handfuls of reis the only coins for which the natives of the Amazon exchange their goods which rained into the pocket of Fragoso, and which he collected with evident satisfaction. But assuredly night would come before he could satisfy the demands of the customers, who were so constantly renewed.
"You remember them!" asked Fragoso, surprised. "Yes, undoubtedly! A month ago, in the forest of Iquitos, they got me out of a considerable difficulty." "But they are Benito Garral and Manoel Valdez." "I know. They told me their names, but I never expected to see them here." Torres advanced toward the two young men, who looked at him without recognizing him.
Garral, that a barber who is also a hairdresser and I hardly like to say a doctor, out of respect to Mr. Manoel always finds customers in these Upper Amazon villages." "Particularly among the Brazilians," answered Joam. "As for the natives " "I beg pardon," replied Fragoso, "particularly among the natives.
"Perhaps," said Fragoso, "they might ask the opinions of the caymans, dolphins, and manatees, for they certainly prefer the black waters to the others to enjoy themselves in." "They are particularly attractive to those animals," replied Manoel, "but why it is rather embarrassing to say.
It followed, then, that ten minutes later the public were completely won, and crowded round Fragoso, who was installed in a "loja" of the place, a sort of serving-bar to the inn. The loja belonged to a Brazilian settled at Tabatinga.
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.
Doubtless, however, the jolly fellow, who could do no business in Ega, had thought to be of the party if Lina went with her mistress, but, just as they were leaving the raft, he resolved to remain, at the request of Lina herself. "Mr. Fragoso!" she said to him, after taking him aside. "Miss Lina?" answered Fragoso. "I do not think that your friend Torres intends to go with us to Ega."
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.
So Lina, who was to remain in the service of Minha, and Fragoso, who was about to enter into that of Manoel Valdez, sat at the common table, and even had the places of honor reserved for them. Torres, naturally, was present at the dinner, which was worthy of the larder and kitchen of the jangada.
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