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claitibeT over rocks, and every moment croag and recrosa 

 the water, or tako short cuts through the forest. This was 

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

 being overcast, and thunder in the mountains iudicatin*r 

 an approacliing storm, we had to look out for a cani]>injf» 

 place, and soon after rcaclieil one of Mr. Rosenbert^'s old 

 ones. The skeleton of his little sleepin<T-hut ronuiined. 

 and my men cut leaves and made a hasty roof ju.st aa the 

 rain commenced. The baggage was covered over "with 

 leaves, and the men sheltered themselves as they could till 

 Lhe storm was over, by which time a floml came down the 

 river^ which eftectuaUy stopped onr further march, even 

 bad we wished to proceetL We then lighted th"es ; I made 

 iome eoffee, and my men roasted their fish and plantains, 

 and aa 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 

 liver at leaat thirty or forty times, the water being gene- 

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

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

 then had a long walk over the muimtnin, by a btlerable 

 path, which reached an elevation of about fifteen huiidreil 

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

 and most elegant tree ferns 1 had ever seen, the stem 

 being scarcely tliicker than niy tliurab, yet reaching a 

 lieight of fifteen or twenty feet. 1 also 'caught a new 

 butterfly of the genus Pieris, and a magnificent fensale 

 specimcu of rapiho gambrisius, of which I had hitherto 

 ouiy found the males, which are smaller and very different 

 in colour. Descending the other side of the ridge, by a 

 very steep path, we reached another river at a spot which 

 is about the centre of the ishmd, and which was to be our 

 resting-place for two or three days. In a couple of hours 

 my men had built a little sleeping-shed for me, about eight 

 feet by four, with a bench of split poles, they themselves 

 occupying two or three smaller ones, wMch had been put 

 up by former passengers. 



The river here was about twenty yards wide, running 

 over a pebbly and sometimes a rocky bed, and bordered 

 by steep hills with occasionally fiat swampy spots be- 



