ACROSS UNKNOWN SOUTH AMERICA 
sixty feet high and sixty feet wide, with a small terrace 
half way up its face. The bed of the river below the fall 
was, like all the torrents of that region, of strangely shaped 
lava blocks. With the dense foliage, the innumerable 
ccdtSj a medicinal plant with huge leaves, the festooned 
liane and creepers — all most verdant in the sombre green 
light filtering through the foliage and the moisture of the 
abundant spray from the fall — it was indeed a mag¬ 
nificent sight. In order to see it, however, one had to 
suffer a great deal, because in forcing one’s way through 
the dense vegetation one got literally covered with 
carrapatos and carrapatinhos. 
Above the falls, for some hundreds of yards, there 
were terrific rapids in the river, which flowed over a steep 
bed of yellow lava in terraces, over steps, and over a fourth 
minor fall some distance off. 
DISTANCES FROM THE ARAGUAYA TO CAPIM BRANCO 
Kil. Metres. 
Araguaya to Ponte Alto.26 400 
Ponte Alto to Fogaca. 19 800 
Fogaca to Prata . *.. 20 
Prata to Ponte Queimada. 23 700 
Ponte Queimada to Bella Vista. 19 800 
Bella Vista to Agua Quente. 26 500 
Agua Quente to Barreiros ..10 
Barreiros to Agua Emeindada. 16 500 
Agua Emeindada to Tachos. 29 700 
Tachos to Bugueirao.20 
Bugueirao to Paredaozinho.20 
Paredaozinho to Paredao Grande.20 
Paredao Grande to Cabeca de Boi.33 100 
Cabeca de Boi to Sangrador.33 100 
Sangrador to Sangradorzinho.20 
Sangradorzinho to Varzen Grande.20 
Varzen Grande to Lagoa Secca.23 
Lagoa Secca to Caxoerinha. 26 500 
Caxoerinha to Ponte de Pedra.10 
Ponte de Pedra to LagOa Formosa.20 
Lagoa Formosa to Xico Nunes ..20 
Xico Nunes to Sapaturo. 16 500 
Sapaturo to Presidente.17 
Presidente to Capim Branco. 14 850 
Total. 509 450 
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