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ARTIN RATTLER and Barney O'Flannagan soon after this began to entertain a desire to travel farther into the interior of Brazil, and behold with their own eyes the wonders of which they had heard so much from their kind and hospitable friend the hermit. Martin was specially anxious to see the great river Amazon, about which he entertained the most romantic ideas as well he might, for there is not such another river in the world for size, and for the many curious things connected with its waters and its banks. Barney, too. was smitten with an intense desire to visit the diamond mines, which he fancied must be the most brilliant and beautiful sight in the whole world ; and when Martin asked him what sort of place he expected to see, he used to say that he "pictur'd in his mind a great many deep and lofty caverns, windin' in an' out an' round about,