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the last northern highlands of the Cordillera Occidental. It 
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mule to cross the Sabana of Bolivar to Monteria on the Sinu. 
The first evening’s ride, under a full moon, cannot be forgotten. 
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rode through a low scrub-like forest, but ich even in the 
half-obscurity some trees in blossom showed. One was a large- 
flowered golden-yellow Caesalpineaceous tree. But most mag- 
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the various species termed ‘‘Ceiba.’”’ One of the latter has a 
heavy trunk with enormous plate-like nice: these as high 
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