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482 NOTES OF A BOTANIST CHAP.
so much of it together
as at the Laja de Capibara.
The best executed figures, however, I have met
with, and the only ones about which I could make
out any extant tradition, are in the river Paapun's,
which enters the Uaupes from the south at Jauarite
caxoeira, and is inhabited by Fish and Indians (Pira-Tapuyas
Mosquito
and Carapanas). The Paa-
Fir,. 20. GROUP OF PICTURES ON Kic.iir HANK OF THE CASIQUIAKI,
A LITTLE ABOVE THE CAN'O DE CALIPO.
pun's in its lower part is an uninterrupted and
dangerous rapid ; and
miles up, two islands
at Aracapa caxoeira, a few
divide it into three narrow
channels, each of which is a nearly perpendicular
cascade of about 15 feet high. At this
point canoes have to be unladen and dragged over
one of the islands, which are masses of granite
having on them much clad with
picture-writing,
shrubs. The most distinct
where
figures
not
are
on the top of a rock which rises perpendicularly by