usual, must sleep in the forest; the path is not so good the following day.
The hills over which it lies are rocky, steep and rugged; and the spaces
betwixt them swampy and mostly knee-deep in water. After eight hours' walk
you find two or three Indian huts, surrounded by the forest; and in little
more than half an hour from these you come to ten or twelve others, where
you pass the night. They are prettily situated at the entrance into a
savanna. The eastern and western hills are still covered with wood; but on
looking to the south-west quarter you perceive it begins to die away. In
these forests you may find plenty of the trees which yield the sweet-
smelling resin called accaiari, and which, when pounded and burnt on
charcoal, gives a delightful fragrance.

From hence you proceed, in a south-west direction, through a long swampy
savanna. Some of the hills which border on it have nothing but a thin
coarse grass and huge stones on them: others quite wooded; others with
their summits crowned and their base quite bare; and others again with
their summits bare and their base in thickest wood.

Half of this day's march is in water nearly up to the knees. There are four
creeks to pass: one of them has a fallen tree across it. You must make your
own bridge across the other three. Probably, were the truth known, these
apparently four creeks are only the meanders of one.

The jabiru, the largest bird in Guiana, feeds in the marshy savanna through
which you have just passed. He is wary and shy, and will not allow you to
get within gunshot of him.

You sleep this night in the forest, and reach an Indian settlement about
three o'clock the next evening, after walking one-third of the way through
wet and miry ground.