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through the action of water running down the rock. The right hand 
character represents the sketch of an elk (eland), on which and under 
which are depicted four monkeys, admirable for fidelity of expression. 
The legs, with one exception, are not finished. 
Fia. 143.—Petroglyphs in Basutoland, South Africa. 
CANARY ISLANDS. 
These islands are considered in connection with the continent of 
Africa. 
S. Berthelot (a) gives an account, referring to Figs. 144 and 145, 
from which the following is extracted and translated: 
A site very little frequented, designated by the name of Los Letreros, appears to 
have been inhabited in very ancient times by one of the aboriginal tribes estab- 
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lished on the Island of Fer, one of the Canary islands. At a distance of about three- 
quarters of a league from the coast all the land sloping and broken by volcanic 
mounds extends in undulations to the edge of the eliffs which flank the coast. It 
is on this desert site, called Los Letreros, that inscriptions are found engraved on an 
ancient flow of basaltic lava, with a smooth surface, over an extent of more than 400 
meters. On all this surface, at various distances and without any reiation to each 
