. The earth and its inhabitants .. . _» 250 Miles. the cinchona, are also represented on the slopes of Rorairaa. On the banks of the Essequibo the Indians make use of arrows obtained from a poisonous bamboo, which produces the same effect as the curare.* The superb Victoria regia, discovered in 1837, in the Berbice River, British Guiana, and afterwards met in many other watercourses in the Amazonian region, is an example of the marvellous beauty that efflorescence may assume in equato- rial America. In some places the surface of the lakes almost entirely .disappears under a carpet of enormous
. The earth and its inhabitants .. . _» 250 Miles. the cinchona, are also represented on the slopes of Rorairaa. On the banks of the Essequibo the Indians make use of arrows obtained from a poisonous bamboo, which produces the same effect as the curare.* The superb Victoria regia, discovered in 1837, in the Berbice River, British Guiana, and afterwards met in many other watercourses in the Amazonian region, is an example of the marvellous beauty that efflorescence may assume in equato- rial America. In some places the surface of the lakes almost entirely .disappears under a carpet of enormous leaves and tufts of white petals intermingled with other flowers, blue, pink, or yellow, and with quaking grasses. Under certain favourable atmospheric conditions, the flowers of a nymphaeacea abounding in these fresh-water basins shine with the calm glow of anight light, much less vivid * C. B. Brown, Ca)wc and Cump Life in British Guiana.
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