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pay them half a dollar a day to carry loads. So 
we pushed on, carrying part of our loads, leaving 
the rest of our cargo behind, until we reached the 
Savannah, when we had to send them back several 
times to get the balance of our goods. From the 
time we reached the Savannah we were starving, 
more or less, as we could procure only very little 
provisions. We hunted all about for Cazt. Law- 
venceana, and got only about 1500 or so, it growing 
only here and there. At Roraima we did not 
hunt at all, as the district is utterly rubbed out by 
the Indians. We were about fourteen days at 
Roraima and got plenty of Utricularia Camp- 
belliana, U. Humboldtiz, and U. montana. Also 
Zygopetalum, Cyp. Lindleyanum, Oncidium nigra- 
tum (only fifty—very rare now), Cypripedium 
Schomburgkianum, Zygopetalum Burkeww, and in 
fact, all that is to be found on and about Roraima, 
except the Cattleya Lawrenceana. Also plenty 
others, as Sobralia, Liliastrum, etc. So our collec- 
tion was not a very great one; we had the hardest 
trouble now through the want of Indians to carry 
the loads. Besides this, the rainy weather set in 
and our loads suffered badly for all the care we 
took of them. Besides, the Indians got disagree- 
able, having to go back several times to bring the 
remaining baskets. Nevertheless, we got down as 
