CHAPTER XVI. 



CORA SHEAR-TAIL HUMMING-BIRD. 



VERY part of the strange country 

 of Peru is hilly, if not mountain- 

 ous. The valleys are little better 

 than ravines ; and the rivers flow 

 with the rushing noise of torrents, and fall 

 in cascades of foam as they make their 

 way to the sea. 



A journey in Peru is attended with 

 some difficulty. Along the desert strip of 

 land near to the shore, heat, thirst, and 

 fatigue, to say nothing of the attacks 

 of robbers, are to be feared. But 

 the interior of the country is beset 



