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OUR SEARCH FOR A WILDERNESS. 



In the course of three bends of the river, during some 

 fifteen minutes' observation, we observed the following in 

 masses of sufficient size to catch the eye far off and add a 

 decided color tone to the spot where they grew: purple pea- 



FIG. 121. A SLOTH IN ACTION. 



blooms in wisteria-like bunches; falling-star white flowers; 

 pink two-petalled ground flowers in dense clumps; spider 

 lilies, the large kind; red passion flowers; white tubular 

 blooms; five-parted purple star-shaped flowers; wild cotton, 

 in enormous masses of bloom, resembling clematis and as 



