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gj- tow many things are connected with the 
whe ^ single plant. The winds, losing their velocitj 
l„i. /contact with the foliage and the branches, aceumu- 
brlryEf^^*^ around the trunk. The smell of the fruit, and the 
pass verdure, attract from afar the birds of 
hran*^fi^’ perch on the slender, arrow-like 
arou*^ 1 ^ of the palm-tree. A soft murmuring is heard 
the ml ovemowered by the heat, and accustomed to 
jjg ^ O'S'Ocholy silence of the plains, the traveller imagines 
souni°^p degree of coolness on hearing the slightest 
gp .g the foliage. If wm examine the soil on the side 
the ivind, we find it remains humid long after 
].aj,g’’?^y ^oi^son. Insects and worms, everywhere else so 
gg]-^ the Llanos, here assemble and multiply. This one 
pg|.-^y ®^d often stimted tree, which would not claim the 
of the traveller amid the forests of the Orinoco, spreads 
Q^^g^od it in the desert. 
first f ’”'® awived at the village of Cari, the 
tin rn 1 ^ ^®*^hbee missions that are under the Observan- 
at college of Piritu. We lodged as usual 
scaropi*^™" ^"tth the clergyman. Our host could 
oould ^ oompreheud “ how natives of the north of Europe 
the dwelling from the frontiers of Brazil by 
Be ■^OS^O, and not by way of the coast of T 
■^0 behaved'" ' ’ 
by -way of the coast of Cumana.” 
time to us in the most affable manner, at the same 
the an ^‘®®ting that some-what importunate curiosity which 
to stranger, not a Spaniard, always excites 
nerala ^ -^^orica. lie expressed his belief that the mi- 
pBnts • ‘^°^teeted must contain gold; and that the 
as ip much care, must be medicinal. Here, 
to occu^^^ parts of Europe, the sciences are thought worthy 
diaft. „ mind only so far as they confer some imme- 
diate'o't^"? mind only so far as they ^ 
We f P’’^otical benefit on society. 
°f Cari j more than five hundred Carihs in the village 
ft is cnri many others in the surrounding missions, 
to the H observe this nomade people, recently attached 
physical ’ 1™^ differing from all the other Indians in their 
men • ™toUectual powers. They are a very tall race 
feet ten ' ^®*Sht being from five feet six inches, to five 
inches. According to a practice common in Ame* 
the women 
are more sparingly clothed than the men. 
