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For many weeks Martin Rattler and his friend Barney O'Flannagan continued to dwell with the hermit in his forest-home , enjoying his entertaining and instructive discourse , and joining with him in the bunting expeditions which he undertook for the purpose of procuring fresh food for his table . In these rambles they made constant discoveries of something new and surprising , both in reference to the vegetables and animals of that extraordinary region of the earth . They also had many adventures , -- some amusing and some terrible , -- which we can not enlarge on here , for they would fill ten volumes such as this , were they to be all recorded in detail . One day the hermit roused them earlier than usual , and told them to get ready , as he intended to go a considerable distance that day , and he wished to reach a particular spot before the heat of noon . So Martin and Barney despatched breakfast in as short a time as possible , and the hermit read them a chapter out of his large and well-thumbed Bible , after which they equipped themselves for the chase . When Martin and his friend escaped from the pirates , and landed on the coast of Brazil , they were clothed in sailor-like costume , namely , white duck trousers , coloured flannel shirts , blue jackets , round straw-hats , and strong shoes . This costume was not very suitable for the warm climate , in which they now found themselves , so their hospitable friend the hermit gave them two loose light cotton coats or jackets , of a blue colour , and broad-brimmed straw-hats similar to his own .