tiLUAHlCiUY. 



reptik' disGOVered among the blankets, and 

 killed : it was a black snake," and measured 

 full three feet in length. The warm valley in 



near the tiYer, must loalie it agfeeabk te^mt 



to the reptiles. We, however, sle]>t through tlie 

 nicflit w ithont experiencinc: any visits from them, 

 although \vc often expected to feel their cold 

 tio^dies gliding oveif ati4 Wdtening us, from 

 ple^^t itmm to distigreeable r^Uties. 



The- following morning we pro^s&E^ed on the 

 jonrney to Gndarigby,'' over a hilly and 

 broken, but still romantic and beautiful country ; 

 with a variety of flowering plants spread over the 



different hues over the soil ; among them the 

 delicate and beautiful orchideous plant called 

 "fringed violet " bv the coloiiists, the llti/sanotus 

 junceits of botanists, was particularly abundant : 

 its element llkC'^^nii^^ lowers, in clusters of 

 from tibrl^ to six npon the same stalk were 

 very rons]>icuous. The " native liyaciiitli/' and 

 other^; oi". the (/n /mifw fauiihs with white, dark 

 red, yellow, and pink ilowers, were abundant. 



proceeiiztf &It m. nailm <mst a ikDi Imt 

 broken country, fertile flats^ l{m«lrtonehtlk» 



the declivities rich in herbage, but the summits 

 arid, rocky, and bare of verdure^ — we arrived 



