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succeed in rising its heavy body out of the water but 

 strikes with both wings right into it making a great 

 splashing. 



Returning to the fine clear day on which I admired 

 the Porvenir bay, I saw some movement on the opposite 

 side in a farmhouse. A small waggon was taken out and 

 a pair of horses were harnessed to it and a little later a 

 white saddle horse was brought forward. 



Half an hour later the waggon was seen advancing in 

 my direction and a man was seen mounting the white horse. 



This seemed not to be an easy matter as the creature 

 resented this very much. 



Once the man on his back he advanced with jerks and 

 starts with his nose right into the air. However after a 

 while both waggon and mounted man were at my door. 



My valise was put into the waggon and I mounted the 

 white horse after his former rider had descended. 



The waggon was to show me the way so it was all 

 very easy and I followed at some distance. 



We first ascended the hills behind Porvenir and then 

 got on some undulating ground grown with short grass and 

 low bushes but quite without trees. 



"We soon got along a little piece of water where a lot 

 of CJüoëpliaga dispar were running about, feeding on the 

 short grass and letting us pass without being disturbed in 

 the least. 



We still mounted higher and now I got a good view 

 of the country most beautiful in its wild loneliness. Un- 

 dulating country without an end to it, all in short grass 

 with low bushes untill everything was lost in the purple 

 of the horizon ! 



We pass several lagoons, some are large and intricate 

 in shape with deep bays, high 'promontories and outstanding 

 islets. Others are round and have smooth margins like an 

 ornamental lake in a park of old Europe. Sometimes only a 

 part is round like this, whilst in some other part they run 

 on getting irregular in shape and full of corners and bends. 



Notes from the Leyden Miuseum, Vol. XXXV. 



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