text:  The lofty trees and huge masses of foliage of the dense forest that covered the left bank bent forward over the water the dark green of the cypresses and the silver white of the gigantic cotton-trees casting a bronze-tinted shadow upon the dusky red stream which at that point is full fifteen hundred feet broad; the right bank offering a succession of the most luxuriant palmetto grounds with here and there a bean or tulip tree amongst the branches of which innumerable parroquets were chattering and bickering