Not one of us, then, knows this portion of lower Bolivia." "Well, Mrs.Weldon, you and your companions will see a singular country, which contrasts strangely with the regions of Peru, of Brazil, or of the Argentine Republic.

Its flora and fauna would astonish a naturalist.

Ah! we may say that you have been shipwrecked at a good place, and if we may ever thank chance----" "I wish to believe that it is not chance which has led us here, but God, Mr.Harris." "God! Yes! God!" replied Harris, in the tone of a man who takes little account of providential intervention in the things of this world.
Then, since nobody in the little troop knew either the country or its productions, Harris took a pleasure in naming pleasantly the most curious trees of the forest.
In truth, it was a pity that, in Cousin Benedict's case, the entomologist was not supplemented by the botanist! If, up to this time, he had hardly found insects either rare or new, he might have made fine discoveries in botany.

There was, in profusion, vegetation of all heights, the existence of which in the tropical forests of the New World had not been yet ascertained.

Cousin Benedict would certainly have attached his name to some discovery of this kind.