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THE ESSIQUIBO. 



along the foot-tracks of the 

 Indians, through the dense 

 forests, into the far-off interior. 

 These forests commence in 

 many parts close to the ocean, 

 spreading often for thousands 

 of square miles, broken some- 

 times by swamps, and at 

 others by wide savannahs, open 

 spaces covered with grasses, 

 and here and there clumps of 

 trees. Even the sand-hills of 

 moderate height bordering the 

 Atlantic are clothed by the 

 superb vegetation of the tropics, 

 the forest extending to, and 

 even climbing up the sides of the 

 Rocky Mountains. Vast tim- 

 ber trees, the purple and green 

 heart, the stately mora, the lo- 

 cust-tree, raise their heads above 



THE MANOKOVE-TREE. 



