Frazão, Carlos. Castanha do Brasil. Belém: [s.n.], 1935. 73 p.

4 harder than that of the walnut, which can be cracked by hand, seeing that it has to be opened with a hammer. With the commencement of the rainy season, accompanied by its thunderstorms and short but violent squalls, the pods drop from their great height, the rate of fali attaining a velocity of 1,000 feet per second before reaching the ground. This constitutes a source oi great danger to the gatherer who, therefore, usualy approacher the trees warily to collect the fallen pods and by preference in the early morning, when the risk of being injured is considerably less. , The harvesting of the Brazil nut is in every sense ot the word a poor man's occup::ition, giving him· and his , family from four to six months steady employment, according to the size of the casta– nhal (the grounct· covered. by the Brazilian nut trees). The essential implement is the terçado (species of cane knife) with which every caboclo (the forest or camp dweller)-like the Scot and his golf-club -is born, and the employment of which is 'acquired from a very early age. The remainder of his outfit consists merely of his scanty huusehe,ld goods such as hammocks baskets, a few pots and pans, tins, , etc., for cooking, together with farinha, coffee, sugar, etc. With these he loads up his canoe and montaria, a small dug-out capable of being propelled in tr.e shallowest waters. He and his family paddle, perhaps for some day?, up _an igarapé (canoe path), until they reach some convenient landing place near the castanhal they are -about to explore. Here, on the edge, they build for themselves a rough