LV. 

 CORA SHEAR-TAIL HUMMING-BIRD. 



[VERY part of the strange country of 

 Peru is hilly, if not mountainous. The 

 valleys are little better than ravines; and 

 the rivers flow with the rushing noise of 

 torrents, and fall in cascades of foam 

 as they make their way to the sea. 



A journey in Peru is attended with some diffi- 

 culty. Along the desert strip of land near to 

 the shore, heat, thirst, and fatigue, to say nothing 

 of the attacks of robbers, are to be feared. But 

 the interior of the country is beset with many 

 dangers and trials worse than these. 



Here are precipices of a frightful description, 



