VOYAGE TO THE


obliged to return. My excursion how-
ever, short as it was, did not terminate
without an adventure. One of my ser-
vants, a few paces before me, passing-
through a thicket to avoid being too near
the edge of a projecting rock, suddenly
darted back with a loud exclamation. On
my .esmining into the cuate of this, the
man certainly had very fair occasion for so
violent an expression of his fears: he had
just Aiaped the danger of plting his
foot on the largest snake I ever beheld. It
lay half hidden in the grass.--

'In labyrinth ofmany a round self-roll'd.' MILTO'N

We instantly destroyed the reptile with
an Indian lance I had with me. The ex-
treme bulk of it occasioned me to.have
it dragged to our hut and opened, when
we found in its inside an Indian rabbit
entire. I have before remarked that this
animal is about the size of an English
hare; and this did not appear a small