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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1854 Excerpt: ... by shifting our positions occasionally, we managed by help of our musa leaves to keep ourselves tolerably dry. Fortunately we had no musquitos, and but few sand-flies to trouble us. By early dawn we had made and drunk our coffee, and were prepared to start. By our patron's advice we took down our toldo, and left it behind, as the increasing number of fallen trees would render it impossible to preserve it as we forced the boat under them. We were now but 5 miles from the Cabacera, or place of disembarkation, from which point we were to cross the dividing ridge between the waters of the Atlantic and Pacific, on foot. In sight from our humble shelter of the previous night, and towering above the wet, rank, vegetation around us, two or three isolated conical hills, some 300 or 400 feet in height, reared themselves directly in our path, giving rise to unpleasant forebodings. Their slopes, although very steep, were densely covered with trees and undergrowth. At lj miles from our starting point we passed banks of soft gray argillaceous sandstone, containing shells and a little lignite. Large boulders of this rock now begin to obstruct the stream in many places; and at certain points its nearly horizontal strata constitute the entire bed. (See Plate XII.) At many points we barely cleared the rocks on each side by an inch or two; and the water flowed through channels which almost appeared to be artificially excavated in the solid stone. We had sometimes to unload the ranchada, and assist the bogas to lift her up little cascades; at other times we would walk in the stream, and help buoy her up in shallow places, or press her down into the water to pass under large fallen trees. At l miles below the Cabacera the stream divides into two nearly equal branches. Th...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781150011023
  • Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Publisher Imprint: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 50
  • Spine Width: 3 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1150011025
  • Publisher Date: 09 May 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 109 gr


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