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Title: Wanderings in South America, the north-west of the United States and the Antilles in the years 1812, 1816, 1820 & 1824 : with original instructions for the perfect preservation of birds, etc. for cabinets of natural history
Year: 1885 (1880s)
Authors: Waterton, Charles, 1782-1865 Wood, J. G. (John George), 1827-1889
Subjects: Zoology -- Guyana Zoology -- South America Guyana -- Description and travel South America -- Description and travel Brazil -- Description and travel
Publisher: London : Macmillan
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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nd pastures to decay into awful and fantasticshapes, with prickly spurs and board-walls of roots, highenough to make a house among them simply by roofing themin; and a flat crown of boughs, some seventy or eighty feetabove the ground, each bough as big as an average Englishtree, from which dangles a whole world of lianas, matapolos.orchids, wild pines with long air-roots or grey beards; andlast, but not least, that strange and lovely parasite theliJiqjscdis cassytha, which you mistake fiist for a plume ofgreen sea-weed, or a tress of mermaids hair which has got up 396 EXPLANATORY INDEX. there by mischance, and then for some delicate kind of pen-dent mistletoe ; till you are told, to your astonishment, that itis an abnormal form of cactus—a family which it resembles,save in its tiny dowers and fruit, no more than it resemblesthe Ceiba-tree on which it grows ; and told, too, that, strangelyenough, it has been discovered in Angola—the only species ofthe cactus tribe in the Old World.
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;,l Liv-ColTuN-l ukl:. The Cotton-tree was a never-failing wonder to Kingsley,who again writes of it in the same work :— If you are all safe, your next steps probably, as youstruggle through the bush, between tree trunks of everypossible size, will bring you face to face with huge uprightwalls of seeming boards, whose rounded edges slope upward,till, as your eye follows them, you find them enter an enormousstem, perhaps round, like one of the Norman pillars of EXPLANATORY INDEX. 397 Durham nave, and just as huge; pe rhaps fluted, like one ofWilliam of Wykehams columns at Winchester. There is the stem, but where is the tree 1 Above thegreen cloud. You struggle up to it, between two of theboard walls, but find it not so easy to reach. Between youand it, are half a dozen tough strings which you had notnoticed at first—the eye cannot focus itself rapidly enough inthe confusion of distances—which have to be cut through ereyou can pass. Some of them are rooted in the ground,straight a

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