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for some distance, and afterwards examined the forest near 
by. Nothing of particular interest was obtained. The 
village straggles across the front of a somewhat elevated 
ridge, which terminates in a bank, ten or twelve feet 
high, by the river. The ground in front is low and partly 
submerged at high tide. 
At mid-day we left to push on to an Indian settlement 
situated on an island a few miles further up. The 
ground passed during the afternoon was more elevated 
than that passed the previous day, and in some 
places the abrupt escarpment, which was several feet 
high, is similar to that of the Cartaboo settlement. 
In one place where I landed, the sandy floor of 
the forest, ascending gradually from the river, 
was thickly strewn with plants of the beautiful Schizaza 
elegans with its handsome tasselled fan-shaped fronds 
standing erect. In many places we passed a great 
quantity of Mora, and in some it appeared to be the only 
occupant. Several species of Wallaba were everywhere 
abundant, Eperua falcata being the least of all. Man- 
niballi (Siphonia glolulifera) made a very beautiful 
display with its profuse clothing of richly-deep scarlet 
bloom against the back-ground of dark shining foliage. Here 
as on the other principal rivers there was an abundance 
of Ruyschia souronbea, a creeper which, ascending 
the top of the trees, trails down their sides in long 
whip-like shoots, with shining foliage, crimson flow- 
ers, and spherical marble-sized fruit. Of less com- 
mon occurrence, but having the same habit, only less 
common, was Caconria cocinea. Probably no other 
plant of the Guiana flora is more striking than this when 
