140 PICTURE-WRITING OF THE AMERICAN INDIANS. 
blue, a yellowish white, and black. They are, moreover, painted and not cut in the 
rock. They show the same degree of variance as I have already noticed in North 
America—in Sonora, Arizona, and Chihnahua—between the petroglyphs which I have 
designated as Pimos, which are always incised, and those in the mountains which 
I designated as Comanche, and which are always painted and in many colors. The 
petroglyphs are, as has already been said, very numerous on the island of Aruba. I 
have personal knowledge of thirty, but, according to my friend Pere van Kolwsjk, 
there must be more than fifty. The most important groups are as follows: 
(1) Avikok. An enormous dark rock forms the summit of a wooded knob, and in 
this rock are two large cavities, one above the other, on the walls of which are the 
petroglyphs represented. 
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Fig. 103.—Petroglyph in Guadeloupe. 
(2) Fontein. On the border of a fresh-water lagoon, a short distance from the 
northeast part of the island, near the sea, is a grotto of coralline origin, whose walls 
are of remarkable whiteness. This grotto is composed of a principal passage, quite 
wide, cut off toward the lower end by a row of stalactites and stalagmites, which, 
joining together, form a curious grimacing figure. On the wall to the left, as we 
look toward the bottom of the grotto, are found some petroglyphs. They are well 
preserved, thanks to their situation and the shelter from inclement weather, and 
they show no indication of painting, being distinctly traced on the walls. 
(3) Chiribana. On some granitic spurs of a hill of the same name are found curi- 
ous petroglyphs. 
(4) At Lero de Wajukan, near Avikok, and at the foot of a hill, petroglyphs are. 
found on some blocks of granite. I notice specially the human figure which in the 
original is outlined in red and bears on the shoulder a hatchet of the Carib type 
with a haft. 
(5) At Ayo I discovered petroglyphs with figures in blie and red. 
(6) At Woeboeri inscriptions are found on the wall of an immense mass of granite, 
(7) Some petroglyphs on the walls of a grotto at Karasito, 
