The falls are £/5 again as high as JJiagara with a vastly greater amount 
of water. It is not one straight fall but a series of tremendous plunges, and 
there is no place on earth where one can get a view of the entire falls. In 
a Geographic lecture this last fall I was delighted to see a photograph taken 
from the air. 
Ihe power plant is half way down the north wall. Iron stairs and ladders fr: 
led down the face to it, and gave me a chance to collect the few grasses on /tO 
ledges. One climip I got by climbing on to the little iron roof above a bend in the 
stairs. I took off my shoes to aYoid danger of slipping and had to reach my 
very liniit. As it happens it was ?/orth the risk^for the epecies had only been 
collected once before. I found some other good things but nothing like what 
I*d expected. But if I hednH gone I would always have felt I missed ^ great 
opportunity. The falls themselves were worth the visit, and I st-oppmi-'^ 
Lon thfu return journey 1i!r*'tfollect 
next stop was at Bahia where I found all sorts of lovely things j tramp- 
mg aay after day and coming m with a heevy load, ^<r?;as there for^^yEristmas 
with a family of missionaries, then returned to Rio. 'xhe mounteins about Rio 
are a botanists parediae, end kept me busy. There was a most interesting girl at 
the Botanical Garden, a Brazilian educated in Knc^laiid, who -.vent with me a few 
times. Together we visited Itatiaia one of the two highest peaks I mentioned. 
