THE LAND OF THE BANADUS. 



On the Rio Dulce, near Loreto, in the dry season. Its actual bed. excavated at a recent date 

 by a flood in soft clay, is not yet stable. Photograph by the Author. 



loreto: FARMINc, J.\ iMNDATION. 



In the zone of the scrub, where the floods of the Rio Dulce spread. The interior delta of the 



Rio Dulce is one of the earliest centres of population in Argentina. 



Photograph by the Author. 

 Plate IX. 



To face p, joo. 



