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Title: Frank Radcliffe; a story of travel and adventure in the forests of Venezuela
Year: 1884 (1880s)
Authors: Daunt, Achilles
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Publisher: London, New York, T. Nelson
Contributing Library: Brown University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brown University

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hall have up yonder in the woods when weget out of this dirty town. I am ready for anything, said I, from snipe totigers. Do you see that big square box ? Thatsamftiudition. I have ever so many thousand cartridgesin that. Theres the life of almost half the jaguars ofthe Orinoco in that box. Thats the style, replied George ; I have anotherlittle box that will keep it company. I think we canstart in two days from to-day. I am tired of hanginground here doing nothing except examining the offingfor your steamer. I saw you yesterday from theSilla with my glass when you must have been ahundred miles out. Thats how I am down hereto-day to meet you. I am so glad youre come, oldfellow ! And whistling merrily, as if the temperature werethat of a frosty morning in October, instead of 100°in the shade, we proceeded to our boarding-house,after having arranged about the luggage with theofficials. The following day we hired mules both for our ownuse and for carrying our baggage ; and at the head of
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LIANAS. Page 33. TROPICAL VEGETATION. 33 a file of these animals, with their attendants, we leftLa Guayra and proceeded towards Caracas. We hadnot advanced far when my attention was riveted bythe beauty of the tropical vegetation by which wewere surrounded. Slender palms reared their featherycrests along the dusty road and waved murmuring inthe air, their trunks and branches hung with flower-in o; lianas which turned and twisted like sfififanticserpents in a thousand convolutions round the stems.The interlacings of their cordage had formed recep-tacles for many-coloured orchids and other beautifulparasites, which almost concealed from view theparent trunk that upheld all this luxuriant drapery.Brilliant parrots flashed through the foliage, or heldtheir noisy altercations hidden from view among thetopmost boughs. At other parts plantations of the cocoa palm hadbeen formed, whose large lanceolate leaves hungpendent or slowly oscillated to an intermittent breeze,displaying, as they swaye

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