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proportion as the men, who think themselves 

 called upon to bring up youth, or govern nations, 

 proud of the feeling of their superiority, and 

 despising those on whom they should act, think 

 proper to substitute constraint and force for that 

 moral influence, which can alone unfold the 

 rising faculties, calm the irritated passions, and 

 give stability to social order. 



April the 10th. We could not set sail before 

 ten in the morning. We could with difficulty 

 reconcile ourselves to our new canoe, which we 

 considered as a new prison. To gain something 

 in breadth, a sort of lattice-work had been con- 

 structed on the after part of the boat with 

 branches of trees, that on each side reached be- 

 yond the gunwale. Unfortunately, the roof of 

 leaves that covered this lattice-work, was 

 so low, that you were obliged to lie down, 

 without seeing any thing, or, if seated, to sit 

 nearly double. The necessity of carrying the 

 canoe across the rapids, and even from one river 

 to another; and the fear of giving too much 

 hold to the wind, by making the toldo higher, 

 render this construction, necessary for vessels, 

 that go up toward the Rio Negro. The shed 

 was intended for four persons, lying on the deck 

 or lattice-work of brushwood ; but the legs 

 reached far beyond it, and when it rained half 



* El toldo, 



