CHAPTER XIII.

Martin and Barney continue their travels, and sce strange things—Among
others, they see living jewels—They go to sce a festa— They fight and run
away.

ARTIN RATTLER and Barney O’Flannagan
M soon after this began to entertain a desire
to travel farther into the interior of Brazil, and behold
with their own eyes the wonders of which they had
heard so much from their kind and hospitable friend
the hermit. Martin was specially anxious to see the
great river Amazon, about which he entertained the
most romantic ideas—as well he might, for there is
not such another river in the world for size, and for
the many curious things connected with its waters
and its banks. Barney, too, was smitten with an
intense desire to visit the diamond mines, which he
fancied must be the most brilliant and beautiful sight
in the whole world; and when Martin asked him
what sort of place he expected to see, he used to say
that he “pictur’d in his mind a great many deep and

lofty caverns, windin’ in an’ out an’ round about,