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

5 hut, with a few poles. and palm leaves for the walls and roof. Having establishe.d their temporary home, the man opens a pathway to the castanhal with this terçado. On reaching the ground the man proceeds with ali speed and with eyes rivetted overhead, to pick up, with the point of the knife, as man pods as he can, flinging or jerking them into a basket strapped to his bacK. After filling the latter he carries it to a safe place for the pods to be opehed at leisure by his family. This operation -consists of a sharp blow with the ter– çado in arder to sever the lid near the nave) end, allowing the · nuts fo be sliaken out to be carried home. A$ soon as he has enough to load up his canoe, he· returns to his starting point for fresh supplies-which this time will probably indude medicines for curing malaria. The nuts resulting from the labour of the thousands of gatherers are collected and eventually . taken to the loading ports, along the river, . by steam and motor launches, to be reloaded into a river stearner and carried to the respective markets of Manaos and Pará, where they are sold thro~1gh brokers by priva te treaty to exporters. -,. · TYPES The types or "growths" are distinguished by the names of the various rivers or district' from whence they come: Southern Bank --Tocantins, Xin– gú, Tapajós, Madeira, Purús, Juruá, Acre, and So– limões; Northern Bank-:-Rio Negro, Trombetas, Alemquer, Parü, Jary, Cajary, and Maracá. These names compri~e ali the. main tr,ibutaries (excluding