Identifier: frankradcliffest1884daun (find matches)
Title: Frank Radcliffe; a story of travel and adventure in the forests of Venezuela
Year: 1884 (1880s)
Authors: Daunt, Achilles
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Publisher: London, New York, T. Nelson
Contributing Library: Brown University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brown University

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ted our course towards the forest-covered hills that close the valley on the south-west; and as it was late in the day when we started, we contented ourselves with this short journey, which, indeed, we only considered in the light of a start; for Senor Gonzales had placed so many obstacles to our departure, through his hospitable eagerness to retain our company for a few days longer, that we would have been glad to get away,were it only for a mile or two, so that we might be relieved from his kind solicitations, with which we found it impossible to comply. We rode along the right bank of the Rio Guayra, admiring the verdure that clothed the banks, until we reached the small villao-e of Antimana, which was surrounded with luxuriant plantations of peaches,then in full blossom. The river of Guayra is extremely sinuous, and winds in a perplexing manner across the route, so that we were obliged to cross it not less than seventeen times. It was in some places bordered with a thick n O c 3 W H O> •0
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ENCAMPED. 49 hedge of some gramineous plant, which occasionally reached the height of thirty feet. We often passed enormous trees of a species of laurel, hung fantastically with various kinds of creepers. A little farther on we came to a hut supported upon posts, and furnished with a floor raised some seven feet from the ground. To this floor a tree-trunk, notched so as to serve as a ladder, gave access. As the hut seemed to be unoccupied, and as its situation by the road-side rendered it convenient as a camping-place,we unloaded the mules and staked them out to graze on a patch of grass bordered by trees. We then collected some fuel, and speedily constructed a fire, on which we boiled our coffee; and having brought some cold venison and biscuits, we enjoyed a good supper al fresco, while watching the sun go down behind a group of palms. The light slowly died out; the sky assumed a grayish-blue colour, through which sparkled the stars with a brilliancy unknown in Europe. Over the hills in the south

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