APPENDIX. 



ON AMAZONIAN PICTURE-WRITINGS. 



As connected with the languages of these people, we may 

 mention the curious figures on the rocks commonly known 

 as picture-writings, which are found all over the Amazon 

 district. 



The first I saw was on the serras of Montealegre, as described 

 in my Journal (p. 104). These differed from all I have since 

 seen, in being painted or rubbed in with a red colour, and 

 not cut or scratched as in most of the others I met with. 

 They were high up on the mountain, at a considerable distance 

 from any river. 



The next I fell in with were on the banks of the Amazon, 

 on rocks covered at high water just below the little village 

 of Serpa. These figures are principally of the human face, 

 and are roughly cut into the hard rock, blackened by the 

 deposit which takes place in the waters of the Amazon, as in 

 those of the Orinooko. 



Again, at the mouth of the Rio Branco, on a little rocky 

 island in the river, are numerous figures of men and animals 

 of a large size scraped into the hard granitic rock. Near 

 St. Isabel, S. Joze, and Castanheiro, there are more of these 

 figures, and I found others on the Upper Rio Negro in Vene- 

 zuela. I took careful drawings of all of them, which are 

 unfortunately lost. 



In the river Uaupes also these figures are very numerous, 

 and of these I preserved my sketches. They contain rude 

 representations of domestic utensils, canoes, animals, and 



