56 LTimehri. 
and Copang; hyawa, Haiawa, Hyaqua, Hyanali and Hyanuri; macou the 
kinip, Macauri, Macouria, Macarawari, Maccaramoco, and Meckorarussu ; hatie 
the Hevea rubber, Hatio ; and silk-cotton, Cumacka. Other names are plain 
such as Mani, Sawaire, Duka and Duquari, Ebini and Eboony and Koumara, 
the tonka bean. 
Other useful plants are represented ; the crowa from the fibre of which bow 
strings are made has Karau, Curuwa, Curiary, Curuabara and Curibrong. Kurita 
is possibly the wild cane used for the inner tube of the blow-pipe, Cura. 
Few representatives of the supernatural are found. The Minje-mamma is the 
name of a creek and Wieronie is the Siren’s creek ; Cassikityu is translated river 
of the dead and Lucadaia a mythical tree growing on a grave. 
Capooi is the moon and irita shining like the moon gives Irritaco ; there does 
not appear to be any reference to the sun or stars. 
T will now run over the more important rivers in their order from the North- 
west. Amacura is from the hammock, Barima the ant-bear, Waini water, 
Moroka the negro-cop, Pomeroon Salt-water, Wakapoa the black-heart tree, 
Aroabisce, the jaguar, Iterabisce the howling monkey, Essequebo fire-stones, 
Cuyuni the marudi, Masaruni paddle-wood, Potaro patawa palm, Siparuni 
sting-ray, Rupununi duck, Boeraserie prickly palm, Demerara letter-wood, 
(or Immenary Curatella americana), Mahaica and Mahaicony the Mahooka or 
screamer bird, Abary the wallaba, Berbice the bari fish, Canje wild guava, 
Wieronie water-mamma and Corentyne the hawk. 
Lama and Lamaha appear to be from illama hunger and Laluni from laliwa, 
a kind of worm or perhaps Yuliwi, a fire-fly. 
There are some names I have not identified and possibly there may be tradi- 
tions connected with a few as in the cases of the Essequebo and Ituribisce. In 
both of these there were upsets in the same neighbourhood, chopping seas at the 
mouth of the Essequebo caused the loss of the fire-stones, and at the exit from 
Ituribisce the stock of barbecued howling monkeys that had been collected uP 
that ereek. 
