Our first stage from Almas was to a fazenda, called Galheiro Morto, said to be only two leagues farther, but I have no doubt its real distance was nearly four, judging from the time we took to perform the journey. The leagues in this part of the country have never been measured, and as the land was originally bought by the league, it was the interest of the purchaser to take as large a portion as he could obtain; in the province of Piauhy, we found the leagues much longer than those of Ceará but those of Goyaz even exceeded them. This difference is so manifest, that they are designated as the short one (legoa pequena), and the long one (legoa grande); the shorter league I always found to be quite long enough, and whenever the long one was to be travelled over, I usually calculated the time necessary for accomplishing two short ones, and, indeed, I seldom found it required less. We halted at this place till the afternoon, when another journey of three leagues brought us to a little hamlet, consisting of about half a dozen houses, called Morhinos. The owner of the house where we put up for the night, returned from the woods shortly after our arrival, with a considerable quantity of wild honey, some of which he kindly gave us, and we found it to be excellent; it was the product of one of the smaller bees which are so numerous in this part of Brazil. This was the season in which the people go to the woods in search of honey; it is so generally used, that after leaving Duro, a portion was presented to us at almost every house where we stopped. These bees mostly belong to the genus _Melipona_, Illig., and I collected a great many, which with some other zoological specimens were afterwards lost in crossing a river. A list of them with their native names and a few observations may not be uninteresting. 1. _Jatahy._—This is a very minute yellowish-coloured species, being scarcely two lines long. The honey, which is excellent, very much resembles that of the common hive-bee of Europe. 2. _Mulher branco._—About the same size as the _Jatahy_, but of a whitish colour; the honey is likewise good, but a little acid. 3. _Tubí._—A little black bee, smaller than a common house-fly; the honey is good, but has a peculiar and bitter flavour. 4. _Manoel d’abreu._—About the size of the _Tubí_, but of a yellowish colour; its honey is good. 5. _Atakira._—Black, and nearly of the same size as the _Tubí_, the principal distinction between them consisting in the kind of entrance to their hives; the _Tubí_ makes it of wax, the _Atakira_ of clay; its honey is very good. 6. _Oarití._—Of a blackish colour, and about the same size as the _Tubí_; its honey is rather sour, and not good. 7. _Tataíra._—About the size of the _Tubí_, but with a yellow body, and a black head; its honey is excellent.