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the juice of tlie fruit of the Lana tree {Oerwpa Americana). 

 The Bixa is the plant that furnishes the annate dye, with 

 which we colour our cheeses. The natives call the paint by 

 the name of Eucu. 



PAPAW-TREE. 



Parima, Lake. — Ever since the time of the great adven- 

 turer, Raleigh, there has been great discussion as to the 

 Lake Parima and El Dorado, or the Golden City. Some 

 geographers have denied the existence of either lake or 

 city, while others have been so certain as to the former, that 

 a map in my possession places it about forty miles north-east 

 of Fort St. Joachim, in the loop of the Tacatu River, 

 between Lat. 4 and 5 N. 



Waterton could find no traces of it, and the inhabitants of 

 Fort St. Joachim had not been more successful. Schomburgk, 



