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starved men. Vegetables were tbe only things we could 
depend on. 
After tbe sad news our stay could only be of short 
duration, and after accepting the offer of two young men to 
accompany us totheRoraima (although adding two more hungry 
individuals to our company), we left the settlement Yawangra 
sadder than w^e entered it. As we left, two old women took 
courage to bring us three small cakes of cassava bread, some 
roasted maize, and several calabashes with Kasiri ; the latter 
we gave up to our Indians with the greatest of pleasure. The 
two old crones were rewarded with beads and a comb. We 
were told that in a few hours walk we should find another 
settlement, but no provisions. 
We followed the valley, in which are the sources of the 
Muyang, in a westerly direction, and very soon entered a 
dense oasis with magnificent trees and palms. Leaving it 
our road led us again through a wide savanna. 
The chain of the sandstone mountain Humirida formed, 
about five miles distant, the northerly barrier of the valley — 
the green plains now and then interrupted by yellow tracts of 
the flowering Cassia polystacMa, which extended to the middle 
of the mountains' where they lost themselves in the gullies. 
One of the largest oasis we passed consisted only of palms and 
Musaceae which, with their colored flower- sheaths, gave a 
pleasing change of color through the dark green foliage. The 
palms consisted of Iriartea exorrhiza, Mart., and mntricosay 
Mart., Martinezia car y at ae folia, Humb. & BonpL, and several 
of the elegant Oeonoma excelled by the remarkable luxuriance 
in shape and formation of their fronds. Ravenala and Phe- 
nacospermum also appeared here in such perfection as we had 
only met with them in the valleys of Tuaratu and Ossoschuni 
Mountains. Ferns, especially of the genera A.diantum, Schizaea, 
A.neimia, Mertensia, Symenophyllum Polypodium, and Acros- 
tichum covered the ground and the trunks of the trees. 
In following the path through a deep gully, we had 
to cross a rivulet, forming a good many rapids. Its banks 
were bordered by several species of Trichomanes. Having 
refreshed ourselves with the cool and clear water, we 
ascended the opposite height, and arrived at a small 
savanna, where we observed the settlement. No human 
being did we perceive near the huts, and imagined 
that they were without inhabitants, when we observed on 
entering the village a young Indian standing in front of one 
