In crossing bad parts, where the logs had been displaced, they skipped from one to the other, almost with the quickness and certainty of a dog.

On both hands the road is bordered by the lofty forest-trees, with their bases matted together by canes.

When occasionally a long reach of this avenue could be beheld, it presented a curious scene of uniformity: the white line of logs, narrowing in perspective, became hidden by the gloomy forest, or terminated in a zigzag which ascended some steep hill.
Although the distance from S.Carlos to Castro is only twelve leagues in a straight line, the formation of the road must have been a great labour.

I was told that several people had formerly lost their lives in attempting to cross the forest.

The first who succeeded was an Indian, who cut his way through the canes in eight days, and reached S.Carlos: he was rewarded by the Spanish government with a grant of land.