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WANDERINGS IN 
FIRST believe that even old age itself would change the 
J0U —habits of this poor, harmless, solitary wanderer. 
From Simon’s, the traveller may reach the large 
fall, with ease, in four days. 
The first falls that he meets are merely rapids, 
scarce a stone appearing above the water in the 
rainy season; and those in the bed of the river, 
barely high enough to arrest the water’s course, and 
by causing a bubbling, show that they are there. 
With this small change of appearance in the 
stream, the stranger observes nothing new till he 
comes within eight or ten miles of the great fall. 
Each side of the river presents an uninterrupted 
range of wood, just as it did below. All the pro¬ 
ductions found betwixt the plantations and the rock 
Saba, are to be met with here. 
From Simon’s to the great fall, there are five 
habitations of the Indians. Two of them close to 
the river’s side; the other three a little way in the 
Indian forest. These habitations consist of from four to 
habita¬ 
tions. eight huts, situated on about an acre of ground, 
which they have cleared from the surrounding 
woods. A few pappaw, cotton, and mountain 
cabbage-trees, are scattered round them. 
At one of these habitations, a small quantity of 
Wouraii the wourali poison w T as procured. It was in a little 
poison. x _ r 
gourd. The Indian who had it, said that he had 
killed a number of wild hogs with it, and two tapirs. 
Appearances seemed to confirm what he said; for 
on one side it had been nearly taken out to the 
bottom, at different times, which probably would 
