The cypress and the magnolia became frequent on the banks, and now and then they saw great, drooping live oaks.

The soil seemed to grow softer and the water was more deeply permeated with mud.
Although the flood was gone, the river spread out in places to a vast width, and even at its narrowest it was a gigantic stream.

Other great, lazy rivers poured in their volume from east and west.

Narrow, deep inlets, half-hidden in vegetation, extended from either side.

There were bayous, although the five had not yet heard the name, and many of them swarmed with fish.
The warm air was heavy and languorous and now Shif'less Sol confessed.
"I'm gittin' too much o' it, even fur a lazy man," he said.