the heir-apparent nothing to inherit but his father's club and bow and
arrows, and his officers of state wild and uncultivated as the forests
through which they strayed.

There was nothing in the hut of this savage, saving the presents he had
received from Government, but what was barely sufficient to support
existence; nothing that indicated a power to collect a hostile force;
nothing that showed the least progress towards civilisation. All was rude
and barbarous in the extreme, expressive of the utmost poverty and a scanty
population.

You may travel six or seven days without seeing a hut, and when you reach a
settlement it seldom contains more than ten.

The farther you advance into the interior, the more you are convinced that
it is thinly inhabited.

The day after passing the place where the white man lived you see a creek
on the left-hand, and shortly after the path to the open country. Here you
drag the canoe up into the forest, and leave it there. Your baggage must
now be carried by the Indians. The creek you passed in the river intersects
the path to the next settlement; a large mora has fallen across it and
makes an excellent bridge. After walking an hour and a half you come to the
edge of the forest, and a savanna unfolds itself to the view.

The finest park that England boasts falls far short of this delightful
scene. There are about two thousand acres of grass, with here and there a
clump of trees and a few bushes and single trees scattered up and down by
the hand of Nature. The ground is neither hilly nor level, but diversified
with moderate rises and falls, so gently running into one another that the