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one at whom the gun had been levelled, was so 

 frightened, (and certainly with good cause,) 

 although he had not received any injury, that in 

 springing away to a tree, at some distance, he 

 nearly missed it, and hung for a few minutes by 

 one arm, in an exposed and insecure situation, 

 upon a small twig, screaming most dreadfully. 

 The branches crashed as the monkey rapidly 

 made his retreat, as his companions had just 

 done before ; and his screams were heard for 

 some time after he had buried himself in the 

 thick forest. 



Upon many of the trees beautiful ferns of the 

 genera Achrosticum, Pteris, Poly podium, Scolo- 

 pendrium, &c., abounded, mingled with various 

 curious and elegant parasitical plants ; and 

 upon the prostrate trunks of the dead trees, 

 which often lay across the forest, levelled by the 

 tempest or axe, differing varieties of fungi, 

 glowing in red, golden, or other colours, were 

 mingled with lichens. 



On our arrival at an extensive swamp, in which, 

 however, the denseness and beauty of the forest 

 scenery had not in the slightest degree dimi- 

 nished, the lofty trees and profuse tropical vege- 

 tation, afforded, by their umbrageous coverings, 

 a cool and agreeable shelter from the fervour 

 of a noon-day tropical sun, and rendered the 

 excursion particularly pleasant. The only pas- 



