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Updated: May 25, 2025
Get the axe from Duppo and hand it to me; I must cut away some sipos and bushes, and then we shall get there." I did as he requested. I had broken down the vast leaves which intervened between us, when I saw him beginning to use his axe. He had made but a few strokes when a loud savage roar, which came from a short distance off, echoed through the wood.
At first nothing is found to give them the slightest clue; only the ashes and half-burned faggots of the fires, with some bits of sipos which have been cut from creeping plants entwining the trees overhead the corresponding pieces, in all likelihood, having been used as rope tackle for some purpose the gaucho cannot guess.
Madame Langai clapped to her eyeglass and, with the air of one who had made up his mind once for all, replied instantly: "I would not allow a decent chambermaid to become Baron Hátszegi's wife, let alone a Henrietta Lapussa." "And what is your opinion, Mr. Lawyer?" enquired the old man turning to Mr. Sipos.
Then we cut some sipos, and formed an oblong frame of sufficient size to support three or four people. After a little time Duppo comprehended our purpose, and we saw him explaining the matter to his people. Several of them on this set to work on a clump of bamboos which grew at a little distance, and brought them to us.
Tribes of monkeys were seen on either side of us, leaping from bough to bough, and swinging on the sipos sometimes running forward jabbering and grinning, as if excited with anger at our daring to invade their domains. As our food had run short, we were compelled to shoot a couple of the rogues for supper. Night approaching, we made preparations for camping.
John grew yellow with rage: "How dare you talk like that of anyone you do not know?" he cried. "Then, do you know him any better?" But here the old man intervened: "You're a fool, John," said he. "Matilda is right. I will send for my lawyer, Mr. Sipos. He understands all about such things and will advise us in the matter. We must find out how the baron stands."
Meantime, pots of meats and fish have been made ready; the sipos are dipped into them and then given to the girl to lick, who is now considered a marriageable woman.
Near us the trunk of an aged tree, bending over the water, covered with parasitic plants, had been seized by the sipos from the opposite side, and hung, as it were, caught in their embrace, forming a complete bridge across the igarape. I have already described these wonderful air-plants. They here appeared in greater numbers and more varied form than any we had yet seen.
The trunks of the mighty trees grew close to the water, their roots striking down into it, while thousands of sipos and air-plants hung in tangled masses overhead, and huge ferns with vast leaves formed a dense fringe along the banks.
After this, we had to hew a path for ourselves through the forest. Sometimes we got a few feet without impediment, and then had to cut away the sipos for several yards. Now and then we were able to crawl under them, and sometimes we were able to leap over the loops, or make our way along the wide-spreading roots of the tall trees.
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