288 JOURNEY FROM ANGOSTURA 
CHAPTER XX: 
Journey across the Llanos to New Barcelona. 
Departure from Angostura—Village of Cari—Natives—New Bar- 
celona—Hot Springs—Crocodiles—Passage to Cumana. 
Ir was night when our travellers for the last time 
erossed the bed of the Orinoco. They intended to 
rest near the little fort of San Rafael, and in the 
morning begin their journey over the Llanos of 
Venezuela, with the view of proceeding to Cumana 
or New Barcelona, whence they might sail to the 
island of Cuba and thence again to Mexico. There 
they purposed to remain a year, and to take a pass- 
age in the galleon from Acapulco to Manilla. 
The botanical and geological collections which 
they had brought from Esmeralda and the Rio Ne- 
gro had greatly increased their baggage; and as it 
would have been hazardous to lose sight of such 
stores, they journeyed but slowly over the deserts, 
which they crossed in thirteen days. This eastern 
part of the Llanos, between Angostura and Barce- 
lona, is similar to that already described on the 
passage from the valley of Aragua to San Fernando 
de Apure ; but the breeze is felt with greater force, 
although at this period it had ceased. They spent 
the first night at the house of a Frenchman, a na- 
tive of Lyons, who received them with the kindest 
hospitality. He was employed in joining wood by 
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