These were dotted everywhere with copses of the yellow-flowered mimosa-bush, through openings in which the glitter of a stream could be seen, while to the left and behind lay the dark masses of a dense jungle filled with arboreous and succulent plants, acacias and evergreens, wild-looking aloes, tall euphorbias, quaint cactuses, and a great variety of flowering shrubs-filled also, as was very soon discovered, with antelopes, snakes, jackals, hyenas, leopards, and other wild creatures.
"The Settler and the Savage"
R.M. Ballantyne
The only arboreous growth of Tasajara clothed its banks in the shape of willows and alders that set compactly around the quaint, irregular dwelling which straggled down the ravine and looked upon a slope of bracken and foliage on either side.
"A First Family of Tasajara"
Bret Harte