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up or down the most difficult places, it required at times, 
during this part of the journey, the whole eight hearers to 
keep the palanquin upright, and to prevent the whole of us 
from being precipitated down the steep declivity before us, or 
over the precipice on our side. 
I had walked over two hollows, had ascended and descended 
two of the highest ridges we had passed during the day, and 
had seen much that was new amongst the vegetable produc¬ 
tions of the country. There were, however, only few orchids, 
but amongst them was an angraecum new to me, with bright 
yellow flowers. I obtained one or two specimens, wffiich I 
gave to a young chief, who considerately offered to carry 
them for me; but when we reached the end of the journey I 
found that, deeming them of no particular value, he had thrown 
them away on the road. I saw a number of ferns and lyco¬ 
podiums in the hollows, but only obtained one or two fronds of 
a species somewhat resembling Adiantum trajoeziforme. I 
noticed some beautiful small variegated plants growing in the 
damp places at the roots of the forest trees, bearing claret- 
coloured leaves, veined with gold, like those of echites, though 
the plant was not shrubby. 
As we arrived at our halting-place rather early, and the 
weather was fair, I could not refrain from going into the adja¬ 
cent dells in search of plants. A species of justicia covered 
much of the ground, which greatly resembled one of the kinds 
cultivated in England, though the flower was scarcely so good. 
The only rarities I met with was a new lycopodium, some¬ 
what resembling L. umbrosum , but larger, and a pretty 
creeping fern. 
In passing over a part of the country, where the gigantic 
heath was abundant, I observed before me a large heap, as 
much as one or two cart loads, of withered branches lying in 
the middle of the way, and I noticed that each of the bearers, 
as he approached the place, plucked a large branch, or pulled 
