Crossword-Solution: CIPO 4 letters, 3 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

The cipo passed from one tree to another without breaking its continuity, sometimes twisting round the trunks, sometimes garlanding the branches, here jumping form a dragon-tree to a rosewood, then from a gigantic chestnut, the _“Bertholletia excelsa,”_ to some of the wine palms, _“baccabas,”_ whose branches have been appropriately compared by Agassiz to long sticks of coral flecked with green.

Then the black on one side and Benito on the other would rush at the trees and clamber up to the branches encircled by the cipo so as to arrive at the true direction.

And when the cipo was found again what shouts of joy, and how they resumed the walk for an instant interrupted! For an hour the young people had already been advancing, and nothing had happened to warn them that they were approaching the end.

But they had not proceeded for ten minutes along the interminable cipo, in the direction of the river, when they stopped, and this time not without cause.

Look!” and Benito pointed to the cipo which, lost in the branches of a high ficus, was agitated by violent shakings.