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WANDERINGS IN SOUTH AMERICA. 
FOURTH 
JOURNEY. 
can get through their work ; and whose opposition 
to the true way of preparing specimens can only 
be surpassed by their obstinacy in adhering to the 
old method; can we any longer wonder at their 
want of success; or hope to see a single specimen 
produced that will be worth looking at ? With this 
I conclude, hoping that thou hast received some 
information, and occasionally had a smile upon thy 
countenance, while perusing these u Wanderings 
and begging, at the same time, to add, that, 
Well I know thy penetration 
Many a stain and blot will see, 
In the languid long narration, 
Of my sylvan errantry. * 
For the pen too oft was weary, 
In the wandering writer’s hand, 
As he roved through deep and dreary 
Forests, in a distant land. 
Show thy mercy, gentle reader, 
Let him not entreat in vain; 
It will be his strength’s best feeder, 
Should he ever go again. 
And who knows how soon, complaining 
Of a cold and wifeless home, 
He may leave it, and again in 
Equatorial regions roam. 
C. W. 
