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the highest fall, and cannot be reached without risk. 

 They were engraved by a young woman who was 

 lamenting the death of her mother, for whose 

 epitaph they were probably intended. Day by 

 day she sat on the rock engaged in her task, while 

 her fast-falling tears ceased not to mingle with the 

 cataract. Thus months passed away, until one day 

 the maiden, worn with grief and fading almost to a 

 shadow, fell over the rock and disappeared among 

 the roaring breakers at its base. 



I had not with me pencil or paper of any kind, 

 and I was obliged to content myself with a hasty 

 glance at the figures, some of which represented 

 human beings ; nor was I able to revisit the spot. 

 On the top of the same rock there are shallow 

 impressions, apparently the work of nature, which 

 bear some resemblance to a human form, and are 

 called by the Indians Tupana-rangaua (the figure 

 of God). The damsels of the Paapun's visit the 

 spot on stated occasions, and kneeling clown on the 

 knees of the figure, perform some kind of devotion 

 -what, I could not learn. 



I copied a few rude figures on the rocks near 

 the village of Jauarite. Those on Fig. 21 seem to 

 represent very rudely various types of trees, as seen 

 in the three figures on the right. The two upper 

 ones indicate a buttressed stem or aerial roots, with 

 flowers or fruits on the three terminal branches ; 

 while the lower one has a tap-root, and diverging 

 branches of a more usual type. The lower middle 

 figure is probably the very rudest symbol of a 

 human form ; while the remainder seem to be 

 merely fanciful geometrical patterns. 



The large figure on Fig. 22 is called by the Indians 



