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Barima Changes Its Characteristics. 
contrary to all the rules of gallantry had been slighted, should not de- 
part quite empty-handed, we gave the beauties at least a few strings 
of beads. Curious to see the disturber of yesterday’s peace, we asked 
Marawari to produce her: he pointed to his eldest wife who, still shy, 
was hiding behind the younger women. 
492. The black lips of poor Stöckle to-day presented a truly awful 
sight, which became still more ghastly through the fearful facial distor- 
tions consequent on the stinging pain. Our kindly cook, Hamlet, also 
sneaked up to Dr. Eclilin and complained of a terrible stomach-achd 
which, as we learnt on closer investigation, Was also the result of too 
much indulgence in the fruits of the Anacardium, the Cashew of the 
Colonists. 
493. Immediately after sunrise we left Honobo and turned back into 
the Barima. And the farther we followed it up the more it lost its char- 
acter of a coastal stream. The Rhizophora, Avicennia, and Conocarpus 
gradually disappeared, to be replaced by Mimosae, Rubiaceae, and Laur- 
ineae. The banks were beset with pleasant underwood which, with its 
copious branches often covered whole areas of the water-edge. Besides 
the scarlet-red brushes of the magnificent Combretum laxum Aubl. and 
Cacoucia coccinea Aubl. the large white plume-like flower-clusters of the 
Inga were especially conspicuous in this river-side covering, the surest 
sign that the salty water and its influence upon the vegetation were be- 
ginning to disappear, although the river still continued to share in the 
movements of the tide exceipt, that it was visible here some 40 minutes 
later than in the lower reaches, and showed pretty well 64 hours flood, 
and only five hours ebb. The small tributary Maruiwa or Whomana the 
mouth of which we soon reached forms a second waterway to the Waini 
in conjunction with the Waburina, Sabaina, Iterite, and Morebo. 
494. Every stroke of the paddle displayed some new charm in the 
banks. The Inga bushes alternated in an extraordinary play of colour 
with Dichorisandra Aubletiana Schult., Justinia coccinea Aubl., Ucriana 
Eumboldtii Spreng., and Lisyanthus coerulescens Aubl. The densely 
interwoven Spermacoce formed a motley-coloured screen past which the 
corial quickly hurried, while the beautiful blossoms of Carolinea prin- 
ceps Linn, shone at us in the far distance, or their branches, sinking with 
the weight of their large and heavy fruits, bent themselves down over 
the stream. The peculiarly constructed flowers of the Marcgravia lapp- 
ed the surface of the water while the large blossoms of its generic sis- 
ter, the Norantea guiancnsis Aubl. proudly over-rail the highest tree-tops. 
A number of elegant but wholly spine-enveloped palms, Bactris acantho- 
carpa Mart., laden with their red fruits, enhanced the lovely landscape 
still more. In the deeper background, further removed from the river- 
side, the palms appeared less prominent, their place being taken by the 
noblest species of forest trees, where a display was made of Lecythis 
parviflora Aubl., the glorious Dimorpha grandiflora Willd., Sivartzia 
tomentosa D C., Byrsonima aliissima D.C., and Eprnia falcata Aubl., 
from which the runners of numerous Bignonias overburdend with blos- 
som hung down in fairv-like festoons. 
495. The Animal Kingdom vied with the Vegetable for fullness. 
Whole swarms of those grand-plumaged birds Am pel is rubricollis Tern, 
raised plenty of chatter as they fluttered around the floral finery of the 
