uiiiTisii (,77. I.V.I .1X1) niiAzn. TO Morxr hokaima isi 



own Indiims were sciil I'oi- l)c;ircrs to the set tK'niriil on llic ( iH'ii.ipow u 

 iilxmt "llolinia," tlic lioiiic of tlic l.ilc Dr. Hovalliiis. thirty miles Ix-yond 

 the rim of the irrrat falls. On .Inly l".l, Sprostoiis' men carried up eiioii^di 

 ecpiiiJUient to otaMisli a cami) and lield-i)ase on tlie I'otaro l{i\cr, aliont 

 ji mile al)o\e the falls, when- 1 took up my work. 



Xo phototii-aph or xcrhal description can set foi-th the niaL;ni(icence ol 

 Kaieteur I''allsaiid the wonilerfnl iieauly of 1 heir set tin<i'. .\eai-l\ foui-|inn- 

 di'((l feet wide and -cvi'ii hun- 

 (h'cd and foi't>' feet hiuii, the 

 white w alers i-oll dow n fi'oiii the 

 hard rock on the brim to rush 

 ilia cataract through the ureat 

 gorye, nearly a thousand leet lie- 

 low the li'\'el of the plateau. It 

 was a delight to e.xphtre the 

 forests and saxannahs of this 

 plateau, and to f,^ain with every 

 day new views of the beauty of 

 this natural niar\(>l. 



Our Indian niessen^-ers re- 

 turned on tile twenty-first with 

 a party of ele\-eii ('lienaj)owu 

 natives and better still, with a 

 "ballyhoo" (or [)unt) which 

 was very old but none the less 

 serviceable. Shy and reticent at 

 first, the Indians soon resjionded 

 to advances and by the twenty- 

 eighth, when all the jioods were 

 brought uj), eoivlial relations 

 had l)een establi>he(l. I )i-. Luiz, 

 who had remained below to 

 study the Tukeit region in de- 

 tail, came up with the last car- 

 riers to occupy the camp and to 



make a close comj)arati\e study of the savannahs and forests of the Kaieteur 

 Plateau, while I pushed on to Brazil in the \u)\)v of reaching Horaima. It 

 is true the attempt seemed foolhardy in \iew of the short time a\ailal)le 

 and the arduous natiu-e of the joiUMiey beyond, but it was thought that at 

 least the Brazilian sa\annahs could be gained and studied, while chance 

 might fax'or the successful aeeomplishmenT of the whole journey. Accord- 



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Toiling up a ■sharp ascent on the roilin'j 

 Brazilian savannahs 



