154 PICTURE-WRITING OF THE AMERICAN INDIANS. 
These are reproduced in Fig. 116. 
Having no small canoe 
we could not pass a small 
channel so as to gather 
copies of the figures we 
could see at a distance. 
The approaches both above 
and below the rapids and 
falls are many times as dif- 
ficult to pass as the rapid 
or fall itself, giving rise to 
the division into ‘‘head,” 
“body,” and ‘‘tail.” Some 
not only have these divi- 
sions, but also have these 
subdivided into “head, 
body, and tail.” One is 
constantly hearing ‘el ra- 
bo,” ‘fel rabo del rabo,” 
“‘el rabo del cuerpo,” or 
“cabeza,” and so on. 
Ribeirdio.—The tail of the 
rapid is 3 miles in length, 
a continuous broken cur- 
rent and fields of rocks. It 
is here, on a rock but a foot 
or two above the river, 
that the hieroglyphic 
shown in F. Keller’s ‘‘Ama- 
zon and Madeira” is found. 
As both Mr. Fetterman and myself made copies of it, unknown to the other till 
finished, our copies may be relied on, although differing from Keller’s. The length 
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Fic. 116.—Petroglyphs at Araras rapids, Brazil. 
Fic. 117.—Petroglyphs at Ribeiréo, Brazil. 
