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r was one of the 

 dreams of our 

 childhood to sail 

 on the bosom of that 

 mighty river whose 

 watershed drains the 

 greater part of the 

 northern portion of the 

 continent of South 

 America, and to ex- 

 plore the secrets of its 

 thousand tributaries 

 that penetrate forests 

 untro<lden by the foot of man : forests teeming 

 with innumer.ible brilliantly-coloured birds and 

 insects, luxuriating in their own Paradise of tropical plants 

 and flowers. Far into the dark recesses of these forests the 



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