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sweet potatoes, sugar, rum and all tropical fruits are produced in abundance. 
Fresh beef retailed in the market at 2% cents per pound. During the month of 
May, we found the temperature torange from 61 to 86°. Thecathedral here is said 
to be 180 years old. One of the bells had cast in it the date 1729. During our stay 
in Trinidad the feast of the Holy Trinity was celebrated—the patron saint of the 
city. Three days and three nights Indians, dressed in magnificent feather robes 
of brilliant colors, danced in front of the cathedral. Their heads were covered 
with a cap supporting long feathers of the macaw, feathers three feet long which 
were arranged to represent the rays of the sun, the object of their former wor- 
ship. A few made music from drums and from thigh bones of large birds pierced 
with holes for flutes. Other Indians were armed with knives, tomahawks and 
war clubs. The Indians kept step to the music, brandishing their weapons and 
slowly advancing to the open door of the sacred building from whence they would 
suddenly and quickly retreat to the plaza and then again slowly advance. On the 
third day hundreds of men and women dressed in long white robes marched in 
procession from the church bearing the life-size images of the virgin and saints. 
As soon as the image of the virgin appeared outside, those representing the an- 
cient religious rites fled in fear and dismay. 
The birds here are very plenty and extremely beautiful. Fifty were shot and 
their skins preserved. Little groves of the fan palm are a pretty feature of the 
pampas. In places are numerous ant-hills four to six feet high. There is little 
industry ; the ruling classes are Spaniards, gentlemen, and must not work. The 
Indians perform the labor and receive $3 to $4 per month. 
Here the Professor bought and paid for two barges of three and four tons 
each, equipped and provisioned them for three months. The provisions were 
charque, a kind of dried beef, farina de yuca (our tapioca), rice, sugar, coffee, 
chocolate, sugar, molasses, yuca and plantains. He hired a crew of eleven 
Canichana Indians and another crew of nine Machupos. For the protection of 
all he engaged ten Bolivian soldiers, paying their salaries. He disbursed $1, 200. 
On the ist of June we set out and once more voyaged down the Mamore 
river—our general course due north. We passed by pampa and forest, by cattle 
and sugar estates, by plantain, orange and chocolate orchards and groves of 
tamarind trees. 
We stopped a day each at San Pedro, Santa Ana and Exaltacion, where the 
Professor made observations for the determination of altitude, latitude and longi- 
tude, as was also his practice at every important point. We hunted the ostrich 
and tiger, wild turkeys and water birds and made collections of everything inter- 
esting to science. Wild turkeys and fish are in great abundance. We were en- 
joying a delightful climate, floating or paddling down this great river, one and 
two miles wide and at this season of the year of unknown depth. Everything 
was new, strange and interesting. There were more than fifty varieties of palms, 
more than fifty of beautiful cabinet woods. What destiny would steam and mod- 
ern civilization work out for this country ? What new resources might not science 
discover ? 
