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with creepers, like huge bird-cages, thatched with 

 palm-leaves. These huts are almost entirely occupied 

 by native boatmen, or, as they are called in Spanish. 

 bogas. Occasionally, these sheds are made extra 



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long, and divided into compartments by a lattice-work 

 of wild cane, each division containing at least one 

 family. The situation is even worse than the village, 

 beine the edee of an extensive swamp covered with 

 rank grass, in many parts intersected with pools of 

 stagnant water, and in the rainy season being entirely 



