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pierced into our camp and shook the big drops of water 
from the wet palm crowns and the umbrella-like spreading 
tops of the stunted bush. The change of temperature 
between the hot savannah at the foot of Roraima and 
the height on which we found ourse!ves now was very 
perceptible, and the naked Indians lying in their ham- 
mocks were chilled notwithstanding the fire which blazed 
underneath. So cold was it that I could hear a strange 
sound of chattering of teeth which with the whole sur- 
roundings made me think of the day of doom. The 
howling, which helped to bring up this idea was produced 
by the loud noise of the cascade of the Araba-pu falling 
from the neighbouring cliff. 
Night came on and with it a still cooler temperature, 
which later sunk to 50 deg. Fahrenheit, and made me 
feel very chilly, notwithstanding I had on double clothes 
and a good fire underneath my hammock, which latter 
however the strong wind continually blew aside. The 
awful noise of the mighty cascade, the whistling of the 
wind which chased the clouds along the neighbouring 
cliff, and the cold, to which | was lately unaccustomed, 
prevented my sleeping, and much as I had been previ- 
ously glad to get a quiet night without mosquitoes, which 
on this height luckily did not exist, now this satisfaétion 
was altogether dissipated. 
At dawn next morning I was still awake, and giving 
up all idea of getting a little rest, I jumped out of my 
hammock and sat down beside the fire. Now and again 
was to be heard a deep sigh and a faint shivering with 
cold as one of the Indians sat up in his hammock and 
tried to stir up the dving embers of the fire underneath, 
or stretched his stiffened legs so closely over it that I 
