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1775. 
Flamboyant trees, like great red •om'brellas • 
1778. 
Zehu "bullock. The zebu, imported from India thrives in Brazil, end is 
immune to tick fever. The original longhorned Brazilian cattle are being replaced 
by crosses with 2ebu. 
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?e reached 
Pedra, about 25 km. from the fa 11 about dark. The older mifisionary stayed 
therefor the ni^l^'t, while the younger one and I went on, planning to hanf^ our 
hammocks to the trees end have a shov^er bath in the spray somewhere in the 
dark. A turbine station ha|l recently been built at the falls, transmitting power ^ 
to a thread factory at Pedra. ^s we sped along, the headlights showing cactus and 
the pale gray stems of leafless shrubs, I waited breathlessly for the plunge 
into the foT-est. But ^-e reached the end of the road, heard the roar of mighty 
wrters and no sisn of a forest, no trees whereon to hang our hammocks; so we hung 
them in an empty 'house. Ho?/ could there be such mighty falls a«i!fcsaeh e,p.i!ay 
without verdurel As I lay in my hammock too excited to sleep and listened to the 
roar I felt sure morning w uld reveal dripping cliffs wii 
rare grasses. But at dawn I left my hsjuDiock to view ^r.e 
most lifeless desert I have ever seen. 
th climbing banboos and 
greatest .rail and the 
