MALLERY. ] IN VENEZUELA. 149 
ters and partial groupings which we had not yet found. On running over them one 
passes successively from simple points to figures made up of tangled lines, to objective 
representations, and even to letters of the alphabet, a resemblance which, of course, 
is fortuitous. 
The first group begins by three points similar to those in Fig. 19 [of Mareano, oceur- 
ring in Fig. 1105 in this paper], followed by two circles with central dots, and termi- 
nates below in a plexus of broken lines. The second group, placed at the right, is 
composed of regular figures of great variety. Among them we note the two lowest, 
one of which resembles a K and the other a reversed A. A spiral, two circles, one of 
which has two appendices, and a figure in broken lines make up the third group. 
Below is seen a coiled serpent. Its head is characteristic; it is found in other pre- 
Columbian carvings of the Orinoco. As regards design e, we will merely call atten- 
tion to the sign analogous to the E of our alphabet. It is fonnd at times in the 
United States of America. [For this remark the author refers to the ideograph for 
pain, in Figs. 824 and 872, infra. ] 
EG ON op 
Fic. 109.—Petroglyphs of Chicagua rapids, Venezuela. 
Design f is an animal difficult to characterize; its head and tail may be guessed 
at. The body is covered with ornaments and the legs, very incomplete, are in the 
attitude of running. Design g represents probably a tree with an appendix of un- 
dulating lines; design h, a head surmounted by a complicated headgear. This is 
the first distinctly human representation that we have found in the country. The 
strange combinations of designs j, k, and / exhibit the dots at the end of the lines 
which we have already spoken of. Design m resembles an M; design n shows a 
circle with plane face. 
Thus we see that the statements of some travelers concerning mysterious hiero- 
glyphice combinations are far from being realized. As regards the exaggerations of 
