Extraordinary to relate, there were no mosquitoes at the ranch; why I cannot say, as they ought to swarm in these vast "pantanals," or swamps.

The long days spent riding through the swamp, the "pantanal," were pleasant and interesting.

He described the geological structure of the lands through which we had passed as follows: The pantanals were of Pleistocene age.

A hunting-trip in the pantanals, in the swamp country of the upper Paraguay, offers a simple problem.