of an Orchid Hunter 



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stream ; then again we would climb with our packs of 

 provisions another quarter of a mile almost perpen- 

 dicularly, often on our hands and knees, always with the 

 one object of reaching the highest point of the range, 

 in order by so doing to pass through every variety of 



PROVISION-CARRIERS ON THE MARCH. 



vegetation. It was important for us to camp each 

 night where we found water — for instance, if we came 

 to a stream about four o'clock in the afternoon we 

 must not leave it, for fear darkness set in before we 

 could find another. Two nights we were greatly 

 inconvenienced by the side of the mountain being so 

 steep that we were obliged to cut down a tree and 

 lodge it lengthways against two others, then place 



