HEAD OF SCISSOR-BEAK.) (PLATE 35.

RHYNCHOPS NIGRA, OR SCISSOR-BEAK.) We got under way and passed Punta Gorda, where there is a colony of tame Indians from the province of Missiones.

We sailed rapidly down the current, but before sunset, from a silly fear of bad weather, we brought-to in a narrow arm of the river.

I took the boat and rowed some distance up this creek.

It was very narrow, winding, and deep; on each side a wall thirty or forty feet high, formed by trees intwined with creepers, gave to the canal a singularly gloomy appearance.