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MEMOIRS OF THE CARNEGIE MUSEUM 



to point out the fish when we seined. William pointed out a long, slender Creato- 

 chanes, but the naked hunter shook his head, and with thumb and forefinger made 

 a circle. We caught none in the Potaro, where we saw them frequently, but got 

 them in abundance in the lower Demerara. Gasteropelecus is more apt in its 

 flight than Carnegiella. Whole schools will sometimes leave the water and shoot 

 over the surface. 



After breakfast we rowed up through the gorge, which the Potaro has cut 

 through the table-land beginning at Amatuk. The edges of the gorge have been 



Fig. 16. Seining on a sand-bar below the Amatuk Cataract. 



carved in a variety of ways which give them the appearance of high mountains. 

 The valley is quite broad, indicating the great age of 1 he gorge, which is a thousand 

 feet deep. 



We took with us a corial from Amatuk, planning to send Mr. Shideler back 

 in it from the Kaieteur. The Indians shot a baboon on the way up to Waratuk, 

 the next portage. We camped rather early in the day above Waratuk and during 

 the night I had a particularly nasty case of chills and fever. By midnight I could 

 scarcely stand, but enjoyed the great variety of new noises from the water and 

 forest. 



We started at 7:00 A.M. on the 17th and stopped at 8:00 to get our first 

 glimpse of the pride of Guiana, the Kaieteur. The Kaieteur was hidden in mist 



