he sun had risen, and said to him: "Our yesterday's search was vain.

o, however,"

not find the body, can you tell me how lon

ly wounded, it would take five or six days; but as he only disappeared after be

f you are entirely submerged, and only keep your mouth and nose away from the water, you are sure to float. But this is not generally done. The first movement of a drowning man is to try and hold as much as he can of himself above the water; he holds up his head and lifts up his arms, and these parts of his body, b

e checked, and the liquid does not make its way to the lungs so copiously, as there is no attempt to respire, and he is consequently more likely to promptly reappear. Manoel then was right

h causes the gases to form. These bring about the expansion of the cellular tissues, the volume augments and the weigh

res did not live after he fell into the water, if the decomposition is not modified

Benito. "We cannot wait, you know; we

ou do?" ans

waters," replied Benito, "and se

not struggle on with poles and drags like a blind man who only works by touch. I also think that we cannot wait three days. But to jump in, co

pose, Manoel?" asked Benito, l

d seem to be a Providential circu

is t

he Rio Negro. The submarine works were being carried on with the aid of a diving-dress. Let us borrow, or hire

r men, and let us be off," wa

Manoel's project. Both were ordered to go with the four boats and the

d the quay at Manaos. There they offered the contractor such a pr

one of my men," he

ne of his mates to work the

ing to wear th

answered

xclaimed

end to

seless t

ents necessary for the enterprise had drifted

ace. At the collar of the dress, and about the height of the neck, there is fitted a collar of copper, on which is screwed a metal globe with a glass front. In this globe the diver places his head, which he can move about at his ease. To the globe are attached two pipes; one used for carrying off the air ejected from the lungs, and w

ow the waters it was rather some cayman who might there be met with. But, as had been observed by Araujo, not one of these amphibians had been seen, and they are well known to prefer the blac

e diving dress. His head disappeared in the metal globe, his hand grasped a sort of iron spear with which to stir up

hile four Indians from the jangada, under the orders of Araujo, g

he raft, and held themselves ready to start in any direction, should Benito