1761 • 
The interior of Percismljuco is siibarid* This is tyi)ical sertao, as it is 
called^— ./ffi-e low trees and shrubs with light gray hark and small leaves i^^hich 
drop in the dyj season* 
l^ffead^be falls in Bio Sao Francisco, higher 
than illagara and of much great mltime. Kb totanist had visxtid the, rcg so I 
One of the greatest water falls of the x^orld is in Rio Sao Frencisco. 
Ko botanist had been there and though they ere difficult and costly to reach 
I felt I must go. At Uaranhuii^s in the hills to the southwest I hired an 
ancient Ford and a youth to run it and with 2 women missionaries as guests, rode 
all day through the s^rtao over a newly cut road that would make an American 
motorist faint* / 
1776. 
The region was most interesting, cashew trees in hloom, himming with hees. 
ttet shmhs in gorgeous hloom:,: some leafless, some with hrilliant glossy foliage* 
SoTue of the Tie^^s along the way; 
