. The earth and its inhabitants .. . 94 Miles. mayo ; lastly, Olaf Storm, who in the sarne year overcame the rapids and then went astray in a sea of floating vegetation. On the Bolivian frontier, as well as in its lower reaches, the Pilcomayo is navigable by river craft of considerable size ; but towards its middle course it spreads over a level plain, where the current is too feeble to excavate a deep or permanent channel. In 1844 the Margarines expedition was arrested in a sandy plain where the stream, dammed up by a barrier of snags, ramified into about sixty branches with scarcely percepti
. The earth and its inhabitants .. . 94 Miles. mayo ; lastly, Olaf Storm, who in the sarne year overcame the rapids and then went astray in a sea of floating vegetation. On the Bolivian frontier, as well as in its lower reaches, the Pilcomayo is navigable by river craft of considerable size ; but towards its middle course it spreads over a level plain, where the current is too feeble to excavate a deep or permanent channel. In 1844 the Margarines expedition was arrested in a sandy plain where the stream, dammed up by a barrier of snags, ramified into about sixty branches with scarcely perceptible current, and even disappearing in the ground. During the floods the whole of the region is a vast laTiado, " drowned land," " slough," choked with islets of floating plants. Lower down the incline
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