A BEAUTIFUL VALLEY 
our route. In the central depression of this valley were 
burity palms in abundance. They say that wherever you 
find a burity, you are sure to find water. It is perfectly 
true, as the burity flourishes only where there is a good 
deal of moisture in the soil. 
Having crossed a low pass, we found ourselves in 
another valley —this one sparsely wooded ( 2,500 feet 
above the sea level), very beautiful, with undulations some 
200 feet high, and with streamlets at the bottom of most 
of the undulations. The summit of the highest elevation 
on that undulating land was 2,750 feet, the level of the 
principal streamlet 2,600 feet above the sea. 
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