132 TlMEHRI. 



ten o'clock on Tuesday morning (March 26th) in 

 time for breakfast. 



The scenery of the river upwards from Amutu, had 

 been of the grandest description. Steep cliffs, several 

 hundred feet in height, in part bare, in part covered 

 with forest or with irregular bushy growth, fronted or 

 surrounded us, the river winding here and therebetween 

 them. But it was in the morning, when the mist lay lightly 

 over the hills, that the full beauty of the surroundings was 

 to be perceived ; and as the mist gradually lifted, small 

 patches rested on the slopes and floated like tiny columns 

 of smoke from woodland settlements — or, as one of the 

 crew feelingly remarked, " like people up there cooking 

 coffee." Once, a sudden bend of the river brought us 

 immediately face to face with a bold escarpment of the 

 formation, precipitous and bare, covered lightly with a 

 veil of mist, above which the rich morning sheen lay 

 upon the sky, and glanced down below upon the tree 

 tops on the hill-side ; while, thrown back against this, 

 the line of the forest by the river-side ran with clear 

 outline, and here and there some huge mora trees, 

 decked with their rich young colouring of leaves, rose, 

 framed like a picture in a radiant setting. In the dis- 

 tance, where the great falls lay, the valley was filled 

 with a dense mist throughout the early morning ; and 

 at about two miles above VVarratu, where the amphi- 

 theatre of the Kaieteur becomes visible for the first time, 

 only a misty bank was discernible. 



From Tukuie ; the Kaieteur has to be reached by walk- 

 ing ; and at about eleven o'clock I started for the bottom of 

 the falls, followed by the bowman, JEREMIAH EDWARDS, 

 and three of the crew , who were desirous of accompanying 



