Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 150
the trees take care of themselves, saidthe guide, and the Rio Claro is full of fish theyear round ; there is not much danger of starvingin this country. The Rio Claro was a fine mountain-stream, withgravel banks, and we passed a place where thegravel had been piled up in mounds, some of themas much… … THE BIRD-EATING SPIDER. cup and a piece of a golden chain, and it was sup-posed that this must be the place where theSpaniards had buried their treasure; so a lot ofpeople came up here from La Guayra in hopes ofmaking fortunes. They found nothing but gravel,however, and it seems that the current of…
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