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river, and the form of which reminded us of the 

 Mausethurm of the Rhine, opposite Bingen. 

 Here, as on the banks of the Atabapo, we were 

 struck by the sight of a small species of drosera, 

 having altogether the appearance of the drosera 

 of Europe. 



The Oroonoko had sensibly swelled during 

 the night; and the current, stongly accele- 

 rated, bore us in ten hours from the mouth of 

 the Mataveni to the Upper Great Cataract, that 

 of the Maypures, or Quittuna. The distance 

 passed over was thirteen leagues. We recalled 

 to mind with much satisfaction the scenes, where 

 we had reposed in going up the river ; we found 

 again the Indians, who had accompanied us in 

 our herbalizations ; and we visited anew the 

 fine spring*, that issues from a rock of stratified 

 granite behind the house of the missionary : it's 

 temperature was not changed more than 0*3°. 

 From the mouth of the Atabapo as far as that 

 of the Apure we travelled as through a country 

 which we had long inhabited. We were reduced 

 to the same abstinence; we were stung by the 

 same moschettoes ; but the certainty of reaching 

 in a few weeks the term of our physical suffer- 

 ings kept up our spirits. 



The passage of the canoe through the Great 

 Cataract obliged us to stop two days at May- 



* It was 27*8° cent, on the 19th of April ; I found it on 

 Ihe 30th of May 27-5°. 



