Caught on back of Darwin's horse near Coquimbo.

Head, full size.) Leaving the coast for a time, we again entered the forest.

The trees were very lofty, and remarkable, compared with those of Europe, from the whiteness of their trunks.

I see by my notebook, "wonderful and beautiful flowering parasites," invariably struck me as the most novel object in these grand scenes.

Travelling onwards we passed through tracts of pasturage, much injured by the enormous conical ants' nests, which were nearly twelve feet high.