ELVERS OF GUIANA. 



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been the bed of an extensive lacustrine depression, probably the great inland sea 

 celebrated in legend as the Lake Pa rima where dwelt the "Man of Gold." A 



rig. 4. — Kaieteue. Falls. 



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tradition still survives amongst the natives that the bed of the little Lake Amuku, 

 scarcely more than a flooded mere, is " entirely lined with gold."*"^ 

 * Gustavo da Suckow, Geographical Journal, March, 1893. 



