As in Chiloe, the lower parts are matted together by canes: here also another kind (resembling the bamboo of Brazil and about twenty feet in height) grows in clusters, and ornaments the banks of some of the streams in a very pretty manner.

It is with this plant that the Indians make their chuzos, or long tapering spears.

Our resting-house was so dirty that I preferred sleeping outside: on these journeys the first night is generally very uncomfortable, because one is not accustomed to the tickling and biting of the fleas.

I am sure, in the morning, there was not a space on my legs of the size of a shilling which had not its little red mark where the flea had feasted.
FEBRUARY 12, 1835.
We continued to ride through the uncleared forest; only occasionally meeting an Indian on horseback, or a troop of fine mules bringing alerce-planks and corn from the southern plains.

In the afternoon one of the horses knocked up; we were then on a brow of a hill, which commanded a fine view of the Llanos.