The national archives were entirely written in this manner, and in the temples were immense stores of these documents, affording information of every event of interest, however minute, in the history of the people.
The caravan now pushed on rapidly.

After traveling, as Roger calculated, nearly a hundred miles from the sea, the ground began to rise rapidly, and in a single day the change in temperature was very marked.

Roger felt the sense of listlessness and oppression, which had weighed upon him while crossing the low country, pass away as if by magic; and it seemed to him that he was again breathing the air of Devonshire.
The vegetation had greatly changed.

The vanilla, cocoa, and indigo had disappeared, and trees totally different from those of the plain met his eye.
Another day's march, and they were four thousand feet above the sea.

Here everything was green and bright, showing that rain constantly fell.