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KELATION BETWEEN CLIMATE AND VEGETATION. 



similar to that we left below ; but the climate was much cooler, 

 and, from the roads being but little frequented, our journey 

 across it was painful in the extreme. Myself, my men, and my 

 horses were often more than half starved for want of provi- 

 sions. It was seldom that we could meet with either armadillos 

 or monkeys on the high lands, the large ant-eater and the 

 ostrich being the only wild animals we encountered, neither of 

 which are fit to eat, from the smell which their food, the white 

 ant, gives to their flesh. The plants met with here were for the 

 most part mere different species of the genera found in the plains, 

 the elevation not being great. 



