SAND-PLANTS 
growing upon it. All those sand beaches were extremely 
interesting to me. I invariably landed upon them. I had 
made a wonderful collection of all the minute plants and 
delightful miniature flowers which grew upon these 
beaches, an immense variety, indeed, but of such small 
dimensions and of such delicate tints that it required 
sometimes a great strain of eyesight to see them at all. 
Some were really most beautiful. I spent a good deal of 
time and patience in collecting, pressing, and classifying 
those dainty little sand-plants, and I was beginning to 
flatter myself that I had formed a complete collection. 
At the spot where Lunghissima Island came to an end 
a large triangular island was to be seen on the left of us. 
A great barrier of rocks stretched across the stream, a 
prominent cluster of picturesque boulders forming a 
powerful spur, which cut the current at the southern part 
of the triangle of land. 
Although the thermometer marked 93° in the sun my 
men complained of the intense cold, partly because they 
all had fever, partly also because the wind was extremely 
strong that day and caused waves of some size in the 
stream, which dashed against the canoe and splashed us 
all over. Again my men were seasick that day, and got 
furious with me as I could not help laughing at their 
plight. 
With a slight deviation of 20° to the west came another 
stretch of 4,000 metres in a straight line. A two-humped 
range of hills now loomed before us to the northwest. We 
had gone along the side of another elongated island, 8,000 
metres in length, Yolanda Island. When we came to the 
end of this great island two other islands parallel to each 
other were disclosed to the west of us, one 1,000 metres 
long, Carmela Island, the other, 600 metres, Stella Island. 
The first had a pretty island, 300 metres long, Hilda 
Island, next to it on the east side. We halted at the end 
of Yolanda Island and there took observations for latitude 
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