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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 Mosquito 

 Indians (Pira-Tapuyas 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 at Aracapa caxoeira, a few 

 miles up, two islands divide it into three narrow 

 channels, each of which is a nearly perpen- 

 dicular 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 picture-writing, where not 

 clad with shrubs. The most distinct figures are 

 on the top of a rock which rises perpendicularly by 



