SEINING IN THE OCEAN AT 
and very few tourists pass this way to 
get the inspiring view of fall and gorge 
from its upper brink. ‘The region be- 
tween Savannah Landing and Holmia 1s 
level, but mountains can be seen in the 
distance toward the south when the view 
is not obstructed by trees. 
Measurements made by Brown show 
that the Potaro River 600 feet above the 
fall is 402 feet wide and 20 and two- 
tenths feet deep. At the brink of the fall 
it is 369 feet wide. These measurements 
are taken at flood. The fall is 741 feet 
high, and in the 1,020 feet from the ket- 
tle below the fall the Potaro has a fall of 
81 feet. The brink of the fall is about 
1,130 feet above sea-level. 
From Tumatumari I boarded the 
launch, taking with me a negro, Mr. 
Cummings, with a bateau. We landed 
at the head of an island a short distance 
below the mouth of the Potaro and just 
above Crab Falls, where there was an 
Indian settlement. We slung our ham- 
mocks under the shelter of one of their 
huts. My own hammock, that of Mr. 
Cummings, and that of an Indian woman 
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radiated from the same center pole, at 
the base of which a monkey was tied! 
Cummings and the Indians went out with 
the net at night to fish on the sandbanks. 
I remained in my hammock to recuper- 
ate from the fever: On the mith senm 
several of the Indians out to dig hiari 
roots, while I fished about the rocks of 
Crab Falls. The Essequibo is very wide 
at this point, divided by an island, and 
falls over a dike running square across 
the river just after it has made a turn. 
On the sixth Cummings, myself, and 
four Indians went with the bateau up the 
Essequibo to shoot Pacu, the most fa- 
mous food fish of the colony, at the 
Warraputa Cataract. Above the Potaro 
mouth the E'ssequibo is broken up by 2 
large number of rocky islets, the frag- 
ments of a dike crossing the river. 
Other dikes cross the river further up. 
the water rushing through the gaps. 
Through some of the gaps the Indians 
succeeded in paddling the bateau; 
through others they dragged the boat, 
after being driven back several times by 
ten Chtshet tame 
