ABSTRACT
This chapter reproduces the text from Chapter XI of Ada Reis, Volume II. The beauties and wonders of nature met Ada Reis and his companion at every step of their journey. At one time a beautiful cascade opened upon their delighted view; at another there yawned beneath their feet a deep precipice, over which they had to pass by a bridge, formed of a single tree, so narrow and so unsteady that they could scarcely maintain their footing upon it. Ada Reis saw, in the midst of a river, an island, which was said to be enchanted; all was white in it, the rocks, the trees, the eagles, the cattle. He found Indians fishing with inebriating herbs or poisoned arrows; the quality of which poison is so frigorific as to repel all the blood immediately to the heart. Wherever he turned, he found new cause to wonder.
