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the branches overhanging the water^ the red-tinted 

 flowers and foliage of the wild pines, and the clustered 

 inflorescences of various orchids, threw an air of gaiety 

 over the scene, and lovely groups of Batemannia, 

 Maxillaria, Epidendron, and more especially of cream- 

 flowered Brassavola and red-tinted Rodriguezia, which 

 often grew in dense masses, garlanded the old branches, as 

 though they would restore some semblance of youthful- 

 ness to their host. 



The petrology of the river bed, which so often in the 

 dry weather gives the most valuable indications of the 

 nature of the surrounding country, was almost entirely 

 indeterminable, the water being too high, a condition 

 which was unfortunately but intensified during the 

 remainder of the trip, owing to the heavy rains. All the 

 features of the rocks, such as the granite at Seba, and the 

 granite and trap rocks, with the abundant association of 

 ferruginous ores, such as at Tiger hill, Mallali, Mecropie 

 and Derrire, that were determinable, were already well 

 ascertained, and were indeed those that gave the most 

 marked chara6ler to the country. 



At the mission station and Indian village of Eneyu- 

 dah, charmingly situated on a sandy elevation of about 

 60 ft. on the West bank, about four miles below the 

 Great Falls, and where splendid views can be 

 obtained of the eastern bank, a camp was made, and the 

 great bulk of the stores etc., was deposited. One would 

 have imagined that at such a place, fowls, fish and 

 vegetables would be easily obtainable ; but it was far 

 otherwise. No fowls were kept, even by the resident 

 schoolmaster. Fish was caught now and then, in a spas- 

 modic sort of way, occasionally a haimara, but generally 



