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Such, in brief, were the results of that trip into the mountain jungles 
of Cocos. It was a strenuous one. Dr. Cook had toI<A us that the palm W<t U/xr£ 
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had been reported as most abundant above an elevation of 400 feet,. 
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strik£^ inland 4 <t s go e<f wt the higher portions of the island. This meant first 
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going upstream, wading and stunning along in the rocky, boulder studded water- 
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course, in order to escape the tangle of vegetation that choked the fore-shore 
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and the lower reaches of the stream,*^^®. result of the jungle's reclaiming for 
its own the clearings that had been attempted by settlers or visitors of jt — ■ fa 
years j^samfss In the Cocos Island streams there is never a dearth of water. 
When it rains, there is more than ever, and it is usually raining somewhere on 
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Our advance upstream was much like travelling over the rocksfbeach.es 
oT Hoodj, with enough swift running water to keep us from seeing whether we 
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As we got higher upstream, the jungle canopy seemed denser; at least, it had 
not been thinned out by the hand of man, and it so/shadeSl thejfloor beneath 
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of vegetation and^easier to tmwi JgMar than 
was somewhat 
the stream itself 
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* We were rather glad to desert the stream bed for what 
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we took to be drier land^ whioh^ — though- there - w e r e no poolo or running water , # 
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was a pretty thoroug hly ami water- saturated leaf mould, 
as a^floor under smooth rubber soled shoes# Indeed, on some of the 
steeper slopes (and as I look back over our experiences on Cocos, all of 
the slopes were as steep as could be^ and some steeper) the ground underfoot 
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was a slick, reddish mud, with a nmk cdatlhg^of decayed vegetation* 
Going up was one thing; coming down another# That other, in more 
places than not, was a slide and slip affair# It was often easier and cer* 
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