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The three put a little more punch into their lagging strokes, noting, as they neared the steep bank, that a couple of men had appeared at its top and were staring at them. Gradually the long dugout worked in to the muddy shore, where the paddlers stabbed their blades into the clay and held it firm. "Ahoy, up there! This the Nunes seringal?"
"Not so good," the old gentleman replied, with a deprecatory gesture. "In truth, it is very poor since the war so poor that soon I shall abandon this seringal and go out to spend the rest of my life on the coast.
His intention had been to join a "seringal," or caoutchouc concern, in which in those days a good workman could earn from five to six piastres a day, and could hope to become a master if he had any luck; but Magalhaes very truly observed that if the pay was good, work was only found in the seringals at harvest time that is to say, during only a few months of the year and this would not constitute the permanent position that a young man ought to wish for.
During the following days the jangada passed on the right the mouths of the rivers Camara, Aru, and Yuripari, whose waters instead of flowing into the Amazon run off to the south to feed the Rio des Purus, and return by it into the main river. At five o'clock on the evening of the 10th of August they put into the island of Cocos. They there passed a "seringal."
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