246 JOURSEY FEOJI AXGOSTUIU 



CHAPTER XX. 



Journey across the Llanos to New Barcelona. 



Departure from Angostura — Villag;e of Cari — Natives — New Bar- 

 celona Hot Springs — Crocodiles — Passage to Cumana. 



CiiAP.xx It was night when our travellers for the last time 

 De arture crossed the bed of the Orinoco. They intended to rest 

 from Angos- near the little fort of San Rafael, and in the morning 

 *^^ begin their journey over the Llanos of Venezuela, with 



tlie view of proceeding to Cumana or New Barcelona, 

 whence they might sail to the island of Cuba and thence 

 again to Mexico. There they purposed to remain a 

 year, and to take a passage in the galleon from Acapulco 

 to Manilla. 

 Objects Tlie botanical and geological collections which they 



coUectcd. Y\&i{ brought from Esmeralda and the Rio Negro had 

 greatly increased their baggage ; and, as it would have 

 been hazardous to lose sight of such stores, they 

 journeyed but slowly over the deserts, wliicli they crossed 

 in thirteen days. This eastern part of the Llanos, be- 

 tween Angostura and Barcelona, is similar to that 

 already described on the passage from the valley of 

 Aragua to San Fernando de Apure ; but tlie breeze is 

 felt with greater force, although at this period it had 

 ceased. They spent tlie iirst night at the house of a 

 Frenchman, a native of Lyons, who received them with 

 tlie kindest hospitality. He was employed in joining 

 wood by means of a kind of glue called guayca, which 

 resembles the best made from animal substances, and is 



