This was soon effected, and down came tree and monkey with an awful crash.

Our day's sport, besides the monkey, was confined to sundry small green parrots and a few toucans.

I profited, however, by my acquaintance with the Portuguese padre, for on another occasion he gave me a fine specimen of the Yagouaroundi cat.
Every one has heard of the beauty of the scenery near Botofogo.

The house in which I lived was seated close beneath the well-known mountain of the Corcovado.

It has been remarked, with much truth, that abruptly conical hills are characteristic of the formation which Humboldt designates as gneiss-granite.