ACROSS UNKNOWN SOUTH AMERICA 
them. The town of Campinas, not to be confounded 
with Campinas of Sao Paulo Province, had a population 
of 600 souls. 
When we left that place the next morning, again we 
went across beautiful flat stretches of grassy land several 
miles long and broad, regular tablelands, at an elevation 
of 2,700 feet: most wonderful pasture lands now going 
absolutely to waste. Plentiful streamlets intersected 
those lovely meadows at a slightly lower elevation of 
merely a few feet, where the water had eroded itself a 
channel. Those streams were generally bordered by a 
thick growth of trees and entangled vegetation. We 
stopped for lunch at the farm of Boa Vista (Belvedere or 
Fine View), so called, according to the usual Brazilian 
way of reasoning, because it was situated in a deep hollow 
from which you could see nothing at all! Another more 
rational name which this place also possessed was Bocca 
do Matto (Mouth of the Forest), because it truly was 
at the entrance of a thick forest extending to the north. 
We went, in fact, from that point through densely 
wooded country, although the trees were of no great 
height or size. The ground was swampy and sloppy, 
most unpleasant for marching, for some 19 kilometres, 
until we arrived at Goyabeira (elevation 2,700 feet), 
having covered 56 kilometres, 100 millimetres that day 
— not at all bad marching, considering that we could 
not change animals and that we conveyed all our baggage 
along with us. 
I saw that day another snake, called by the natives 
duas cabecas (and Tu Nou), or double-headed snake, 
because its marking gives that impression at first sight. 
After leaving Goyabeira, the thick growth continued 
over several ridges, the highest of which was 2,950 feet, 
with streams between at elevations respectively of 2,630 
and 2,700 feet. I noticed in the forest some beautiful 
paneira trees, with their trunks enlarged near the base — 
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