. Wanderings in South America, the north-west of the United States and the Antilles in the years 1812, 1816, 1820 & 1824 [microform] : with original instructions for the perfect preservation of birds, etc. for cabinets of natural history. Zoology; Zoologie. 306 WANDERINGS IN SOUTH "V, i'i n ( : â ''â â .. Ell ''fwl-' t>fiy rVlAli&B ' Sir ' be as warm as tropical weather, and the close of day cold and chilly. This must sometimes act with severity upon the newly-arrived stranger; and it requires more care and circumspection tlian I am master of to guard against it I con
. Wanderings in South America, the north-west of the United States and the Antilles in the years 1812, 1816, 1820 & 1824 [microform] : with original instructions for the perfect preservation of birds, etc. for cabinets of natural history. Zoology; Zoologie. 306 WANDERINGS IN SOUTH "V, i'i n ( : â ''â â .. Ell ''fwl-' t>fiy rVlAli&B ' Sir ' be as warm as tropical weather, and the close of day cold and chilly. This must sometimes act with severity upon the newly-arrived stranger; and it requires more care and circumspection tlian I am master of to guard against it I contracted a bad and obstinate cougli, which did not quite leave me till I had got under the regular heat of the sun, near the equator. I may be asked, was it all good fellowship and civility during my stay in the United States ? Did no forward person cause offence ? was there no exhibition of drunken- ness, or swearing, or rudeness ; or display of conduct which disgraces civilized man in otlier countries ? I answer, very few indeed: scarce any worth remembering, and none worth noticing. These are a gentle and a civil people. Should a traveller, now and then in the long run, witness a few of the scenes elluded to, he ought not, on his return home, to adduce a solitary instance or two, as the custom of the country. In roving through the wilds of Guiana, I have sometimes seen a tree hollow at heart, shattered and leafless; but I did not on that account condemn its vigorous neighbours, and put down a memorandum that the woods were bad ; on the contrary, I made allowances : a thunder-storm, the whirlwind, a blight from heaven might have robbed it of its bloom, and caused its present forbidding appearance. And, in leaving the forest, I car- ried away the impression, that though some few of the trees were defective, the rest were an ornament to the wilds, full of uses and virtues, and capable of benefiting the world in a superior degree. A man generally travels into foreign countries
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