The climate of Nueva Barcelona is not as hot as that of Cumanà, but it is humid and unhealthy during the rainy season. Bonpland had survived the crossing of the llanos and had recovered his strength to work as hard as before. I myself felt worse in Nueva Barcelona than I had in Angostura after our long river trip. One of those tropical downpours, with those enormous raindrops that fall far apart from each other, made me so ill I thought I had typhus. We spent a month in Nueva Barcelona, enjoying all the comforts of the town.