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Show ,4,HUGE PILE OF SEUPENTS Mf& V;. ' " ,s ' . '?'t '-"'I'pf Hi"MnotDT,i'says---,In, the. -sa - JVjj vannahsor IzncuborGuiana,,I saw thai mo5t wonderful; and, terrible spcctacle'tbat' Mf' cart bc scn'j and althottgh it bb uott:in-. ' cemmou to the aatites, rio travci!erlha&: . fk-Sl eyerraentioncd;H, We were ten men ear v horseback, M'o pr whom took thb, load ' " - ' WBttt in.arder tb olnd the passages, white I prcicrred to skirt the great forests;- 'Oupr J - fit- pi the men who forined th vanguard rt r' . if turned "at lull gallop. aud called to, mej ' r'rHcOnip.nBd,sccscrpentsiRapile;t --fg He pointed tb sbmcthiUg elevated in . the, .-gg middle, prjhe'iaraufiah; or "swamp, whicHI 1 appttrelik(i bundle Of arme.; , One of 4 my company said,. ThWiccrtatulj0ho0f 'it tho , -nssem1iea of -scrpelits which heap , iheinsclfcs oii.cach other after vlolcntj tem'pcjttl " I hiiv.o Jicnrd, ;bf these, ''but , -mkm never saw nny 5 let us proceed -catttloilsly,' . -' Mlf t:and!not'gbltoo heat them.' v 'v rS "When we wef e. wltbin twenty pace bf :M it.itliterrorofjour hprscs prevented one .aiiprQachbg nearer ,'.to vr" hich -"hbifie - f us. mvl1 ttiUhied. - Ob a'sudden the pyramid maia $VSI bcuaine ngnat'cdj'aborrid hissing ' issueiV ; 4,rrbmv it.-.. thousands of, " serpents .rolled1 VgS 'sjiirally oh each other, and hot forth 'out --PSS .orthe.Cfrcle their -iiivcuomed dart's and. fij fiery ,cyes, to us. lotml was thd firt td.Uraw back, but when I saw, this for-" 'tjii midabhiphalanXTc'maln at its ,p6st;'andv J.iw appear -to fio more' 'disposed . to .defend' -. My. itself than to nttack us; I rode aronnd f ordcr,tPxic its" order of battle, which, , Taccd the enemy ,011 every jsfde,-' I then, .ISr thought what could bp the.desigu of tUa ' -frij 'asscmblfljrC; nii'd ' I' -concluded 'that iMs .specicibf scriwnt dreaded ssBw cdfc-' 'am 8al;cncmtfrtrhicii;night bc:tb great scr- pent .or cayninn,. nn that they anlte thB-. selves sb.as to resist; him in a massV " - . m. |