The canoe on its second trip, while crossing the rapids of Guajibo, here met disaster; one of the 

 natives was lost and the others of the party were imprisoned on an island two days until rescued 

 by passing Indians 



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The savanna country about Maipures is interspersed with huge granite boulders in small 

 clumps of forest. Sometimes rocks of fantastic shape tower to great heights amid vines, palms and 

 gnarled trees. 



Maipures is at the southern face of the great rocky bulwark that crosses the river and 

 divides it into the lower and the upper Orinoco 357 



