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But during the night which preceded his execution, and when the gallows was already erected, Joam Dacosta managed to escape from the prison at Villa Rica. We know the rest. Twenty years later Ribeiro the advocate became the chief justice of Manaos.
They even intrusted the young merchant with a few products of the country for him to dispose of on their account at Manaos and Belem. The town is composed of some sixty houses, arranged on the plain which hereabouts crowns the river-bank. Some of the huts are covered with tiles a very rare thing in these countries; but, on the other hand, the humble church, dedicated to St. Peter and St.
Far better for him to have assisted in the escape of the doomed man than to have hurried off in search of the former comrades of Torres! But Fragoso was away, and his assistance had to be dispensed with. At daybreak Benito and Manoel left the raft and proceeded to Manaos. They soon reached the town, and passed through its narrow streets, which at that early hour were quite deserted.
On my return to Manaos, at the junction of the Rio Negro and the Amazons, I found the Ibicuhy awaiting me with an order from the Minister of Public Works, placing her at my disposal for the remainder of my stay in the waters of the Amazons. The Ibicuhy is a pretty little war steamer of 120 horse power, carrying six thirty-two pound guns.
I had traveled a good deal Europe, Canada, Japan and always found that plenty of money was all a man needed. Thought it was the same way here. I've learned better. "I visited Rio a few hours and then came up along the coast and inland. At Manaos I got into trouble. Went ashore and got to drinking with two Germans. One of them Schmidt grew ugly and said a lot of rotten things about the States.
At five o'clock in the evening it was strongly moored alongside this bank, not in the port of Manaos itself, which it could not enter without stemming a rather powerful current, but a short mile below it.
His prow cut the infinite sheet of the Amazon, dislodging gigantic tree-trunks dragged down by the inundations of the virgin forest in order to anchor opposite Pará or Manaos, taking on cargoes of tobacco and coffee. He even carried from Germany implements of war for the revolutionists of a little republic.
We were glad indeed to see Pyrineus and be at his attractive camp. We were only four hours above the little river hamlet of Sao Joao, a port of call for rubber-steamers, from which the larger ones go to Manaos in two days. These steamers mostly belong to Senhor Caripe. From Pyrineus we learned that Lauriado and Fiala had reached Manaos on March 26.
AT DAYBREAK on the morrow, the 27th of June, the cables were cast off, and the raft continued its journey down the river. An extra passenger was on board. Whence came this Torres? No one exactly knew. Where was he going to? "To Manaos," he said.
Touching were the adieus, but an engagement was made for them to see him again on their return at Manaos, and later on the fazenda of Iquitos. On the morning of the morrow, the fifth of September, the signal for departure was given. Joam Dacosta and Yaquita, with their daughter and sons, were on the deck of the enormous raft.
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