MALLERY.] CARVINGS IN GUIANA. 687 
The petroglyph of Boca del Infierno, a copy of which is furnished by 
Mareano (/), reproduced as Fig. 1105, is thus described: 
In the strange combination that surmounts it, a, there are seen at the lower part 
two figures resembling the eyes of jaguars, but asymmetric. Still the difference is 
apparent rather than real. These eyes are always formed of three circumferences, 
the central one being at times replaced by a point, as in the eye at the left; the one 
at the right shows its three circumferences, but the outermost is continuous with 
Fia. 1104.—Deep carvings in Guiana. 
the rest of the drawing. The two eyes are joined together by superposed arches, the 
smallest of which touches only the left eye, while the larger one, which is not in 
contact with the left eye, forms the circumference of the right eye. The whole is 
surrounded by 34 rays, pretty nearly of the same size, except one, which is larger, 
Is there question of a jaguar’s head seen,from in front with its bristling mane, or is 
it asunrise? All conjecture is superfluous, and it is useless to search for the inter- 
pretation of these figures, whose value, entirely conventional, is known only by those 
who invented them. 
