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and also of refreshing our memory of scenes which we shall 
probably never see again, and among which we have had 
a pleasant home for nearly three months. The woods are 
much more full of flowers than they were when I fii\st 
became acquainted with their many pleasant paths. Pas- 
sion-flowers are especially abundant. There is one kind 
which has a delicious perfume, not unlike Cape Jessamine. 
It hides itself away in the shade, but its fragrance betrays 
it ; and if you put aside the branches of the trees, you are 
sure to find its large white-and-purple flowers, and dark, 
thick-leaved vine, climbing up some neighboring trunk. 
Another, which seems rather to court than avoid observa- 
tion, is of a bright red ; and its crimson stars are often 
seen set, as it were, in the thick foliage of the forest. 
But, much as I enjoy the verdure here, I appreciate, more 
than ever before, the marked passage of the seasons in our 
Northern hemisphere. In this unchanging, green world, 
which never alters from century to century, except by a 
little more or less moisture, a little more or less heat, I 
think with the deepest gratitude of winter and spring, 
summer and autumn. The circle of nature seems incom- 
plete, and even the rigors of our climate are remembered 
with affection in this continual vapor-bath. It is literally 
true that you cannot move ten steps without being drenched 
in perspiration. However, this character of the heat pre- 
vents it from being scorching ; and we have no reason to 
change our first impression, that, on the whole, the climate 
is much less oppressive than we expected to find it, and the 
nights are invariably cool. 
At the end of this week we resume our voyage on board 
the " Ibicuhy," going slowly down to Para, stopping at several 
points on tlie way. Our first station will be at Villa Bel- 
