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fatiguing work ; and about three in the afternoon, the sky 

 being overcast, and thunder in the mountains indicating 

 an approaching storm, we had to look out for a camping 

 place, and soon after reached one of Mr. Eosenberg's old 

 ones. The skeleton of his little sleeping-hut remained, 

 and my men cut leaves and made a hasty roof just as the 

 rain commenced. The baggage was covered over with 

 leaves, and the men sheltered themselves as they could till 

 the storm was over, by which time a Hood came down the 

 river, which effectually stopped our fiirther march, even 

 had we wished to proceed. We then lighted fires ; I made 

 some coffee, and my men roasted their fish and plantains, 

 and as soon as it was dark, we made ourselves comfortable 

 for the night. 



Starting at six the next morning, we had three hours of 

 the same kind of walking, during which we crossed the 

 river at least thirty or forty times, the water being gene- 

 rally knee-deep. This brought us to a place where the road 

 left the stream, and here we stopped to breakfast. We 

 then had a long walk over the mountain, by a tolerable 

 path, which reached an elevation of about fifteen hundred 

 feet above the sea. Here I noticed one of the smallest 

 and most elegant tree ferns I had ever seen, the stem 

 being scarcely thicker than my thumb, yet reaching a 

 height of fifteen or twenty feet. I also caught a new 

 butterfly of the genus Pieris, and a magnificent female 



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