Note 54 — Chapter V · FROM PARÁ TO MANAOS.
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On the Xingu, August 23d, 1865.
My dear Friend:—I am worn out with fatigue, but I will not go to rest before writing you a word. Yesterday evening we obtained twenty-seven species of fish at Gurupá and this morning fifty-seven at Porto do Moz,—eighty-four species in all, in less than twelve hours, and of this number fifty-one are new. It is wonderful. I can no longer put in order what is brought to me as fast as it arrives, and as to obtaining colored drawings of all, it is no longer possible, unless we pass a whole week here on our return.
Wholly yours,
L. Agassiz.