These animals in the tropics are numerous, and seclude themselves from the light of day in caverns or other dark and lonely recesses, where they attach themselves to the roof, and clinging to each other are suspended in large pyramidal clusters or festoons.

When disturbed, they take wing, and hastily quit their abodes.

By unthinkingly intruding on their territories, which had probably never before been invaded, great alarm was excited among the inmates; a terrible confusion ensued, and the general rush to the aperture caused my unceremonious overthrow.
In one of my mountain excursions, I lost my way while enveloped in a dense mist, and, after descending a steep ridge, came upon a platform or terrace of several acres' extent, which at first view seemed to have been formed by artificial means on the mountain side.

This plain was level, and thickly covered with coarse grass, which, finding a genial soil and region, grew to a height of five or six feet.

Near the centre of the prairie stood the only tree which flourished on this fertile spot.