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A large revolver carried conspicuously along my side was 

 to take the place of the escort! 



The country was perfectly beautiful in the early morning, 

 and as we ascended the mountains after having left the 

 town I got a fine view of the flat country surrounding 

 Angol, the river winding through it like a silver thread. 



On the big waggon track which we followed we met 

 numberless waggons drawn by stout oxen who had fetched 

 timber from the mountains. 



Towards the top of this first range of Mountains the 

 vegetation gets more and more dense and soon we are in 

 the midst of the forest. The woods consist mostly of beeches 

 with small hard leaves and all sorts of beautiful, partly flowe- 

 ring, shrubs form the underwood. Along the road the beautiful 

 Lapageria rosea forms tangles in the small trees or bushes. 



We get over one mountain range after the other gra- 

 dually getting higher. 



Along a mountain stream I see a beautiful bird, what 

 looked like a white headed black and brown longtailed Tit. 

 In a parasitic redflowering bush which grows on the trees 

 like the mistletoe here, I see constantly the Goldencrowned 

 Humminghird. 



In an open space far into the forest I see a Puma sneak 

 away at our approach. 



At last after having ridden some hours and having met 

 no one my guide points to some distant hills saying „P«- 

 nales'\ And here they were indeed the long looked for 

 Auracaria-woods. The trees stood like mighty parasols on 

 the top of the mountain range against the clear sky and 

 the whole of the upper half of those mountains was covered 

 by them. 



On we go, mile after mile with those woods in view. We 

 pass some huts where some black looking halfcaste Indians 

 are burning charcoal and who take no notice of me. We 

 cross an open space where a small stream is running through 

 and where some Lapwings are playing and now have to 

 ascend a steep forest clad hill. The road is an old torrent 

 run dry and the woods on the right and left are one 



Notes from the Leyden IVEuseum, Vol. XXXV. 



