. Cassier's magazine . 34 VIEW UP EL RIO CAURA AT LA AURORA 242 CASSIERS MAGAZINE. VIEW OF ROCK OUTSIDE THE PORT OF GUANTA where a small water-power would beavailable for farm and house llanos may be somewhat drearyand monotonous to travel in, andthere is a singular monotony of greenin traveling between the thickly-wooded banks of the Orinoco deltachannels. On the main streamglimpses of higher land beyond thewooded banks are often gained. Butriding through the varied country tothe south of the Orinoco is indeed acharming experience. The sunlitgrass or savannahs, surrounded bytheir circ
. Cassier's magazine . 34 VIEW UP EL RIO CAURA AT LA AURORA 242 CASSIERS MAGAZINE. VIEW OF ROCK OUTSIDE THE PORT OF GUANTA where a small water-power would beavailable for farm and house llanos may be somewhat drearyand monotonous to travel in, andthere is a singular monotony of greenin traveling between the thickly-wooded banks of the Orinoco deltachannels. On the main streamglimpses of higher land beyond thewooded banks are often gained. Butriding through the varied country tothe south of the Orinoco is indeed acharming experience. The sunlitgrass or savannahs, surrounded bytheir circles of mountains, are singu-larly beautiful; and it is a great con-trast to emerge upon one of thesebright sunlit expanses from the thickgloom of a tropical forest, throughwhich the traveler splashes and stum-bles under and over rotting logs,through muddy swamps and streams,crushing through fern growths, avoid-ing lianas as they hang from thelofty trees, pressing on through agloom that becomes awesome and op-pressive as the men subside intosilence, as they lose the influence of
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