xvi LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. 



FIG. PAGE 



32. Amazon Parrot Roost, Pitch Lake 63 



33. The Home of the Amazon Parrot in the Middle of Pitch Lake ... 64 



34. Amazon Parrot at Entrance of Nest. Fifteen feet away 65 



35. Amazon Parrot at Entrance of Nest. Ten feet away 65 



36. Amazon Parrot about to take Flight 66 



37. Eggs and Young of Amazon Parrot in the Nest 67 



38. Fish from the Pools in Pitch Lake. Asquidens sp 69 



39. Fish from the Pools in Pitch Lake. Hoplias malabaricus 69 



40. Our Sloop at Guanoco 72 



41. Venezuelan Soldiers on the "Ponton" Guard Ship 76 



42. Captain Truxillo paddling us up the Guarapiche past Cano 



Colorado 78 



43. Sunset in the Mangrove Wilderness 80 



44. The Silent Savages 81 



45. Guarauno Indians coming to trade at Cano Colorado 83 



46. Guarauno Squaws and Child with Monkey 85 



47. Pitch Lake, showing freshly dug pit filled with water ; an older 



pit filled with soft pitch, both surrounded by the hard surface 



pitch 88 



48. Digging out the Black, Waxlike Pitch 90 



49. Loading Pitch on the Hand Cars 93 



50. Mangrove Wilderness from the High Land at Guanoco 95 



51. Inhabitants of Guanoco assembled for a Dance 97 



52. A Palm-sheath Rocking Toy 100 



53. Sheath in Fig. 52, covering the Flower of a Palm 102 



54. Priestless Chapel at Guanoco 105 



55. Guarauno Indian Papoose 107 



56. Map of our Three Expeditions into British Guiana no 



57. Street in Georgetown 113 



58. Kiskadee Tyrant Flycatcher 114 



59. Coolie Woman and Negress 117 



60. The Georgetown Sea-wall 119 



61. Toad 123 



62. Arc-light 123 



63. Victoria Regia in the Botanical Gardens 124 



64. Lotus in Blossom 126 



65. Taliput Palm in Blossom 128 



66. Canal of the Crocodiles 130 



67. Young Elania Flycatchers. . *3 2 



68. Typical Indian House at Morawhanna 136 



69. Three-year Olds at Home in their Wood-skin i.vS 



70. Mount Everard 140 



71. Sir Everard imThurn's House at Morawhanna 143 



72. Palm Tanager 14? 



