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mals. There are several drawings of the ywaraud, or sea cow, Pl. 
4, fig. 3 (?), Pl. 5, fig. 3, Pl. 7, fig. 7. Of fishes, there are two at 
least, Pl. 5, fig. 8, and Pl. 6, fig. 4. It is worthy of remark that 
there are no drawings of the dog, ox, or horse, and I have seen no 
figures of plants. Senhor Penna, in a MS., says that trees are 
sometimes represented, together with “ canoes, oars, benches, and 
other objects of common use,” but I have seen no such figures at 
Ereré, though they may occur elsewhere. 
In the accompanying plates, I have given many examples of 
drawings of doubtful significance. The scroll, Pl. 4, figures 5 
and 7, Pl. 5, fig. 4, Pl. 7, fig. 5, occurs frequently, and also the 
design Pl. 7, fig. 8, which varies somewhat in different drawings. 
The complicated rectilinear figure, Pl. 6, fig. 2, is painted on the 
side of the isolated rock mass on the top of the Serra and is about 
sixteen inches in height.* The Greek fret occurs once or twice at 
Ereré and quite frequently on the Marajé pottery. 
The red paint used in the inscriptions, is, I believe, annatto, per- 
haps also clay. It is very rudely smeared on the rough surface of 
the sandstone, sometimes when quite dry. There are some draw- 
ings in which the paint was laid on as a thin wash which dripped 
over the rock. I think the painting was largely done with the 
ers. In some places the rock is soiled where the Indian as- 
sisted himself by the hand in climbing. The yellow color was 
prepared from clay. 
The drawings of the Tocantins and of Ereré were carefully 
copied. The figures on the plates were transferred directly to the 
wood from my original sketches. I do not claim for them photo- 
graphic accuracy, but I am sure they give faithfully the Indian 
idea. The original inscriptions are even more rude in finish than 
might be inferred from the plates. Precisely similar figures to 
those of the Tocantins and Ereré occur on the Rio Uaupés (Wal- 
lace) scraped on hard granitic (gneissic?) rock. 
I have given on Pl. 9, accurate reductions of the copies of 
the figures on the Serra da Escama, kindly placed in my hands by 
Senhor Penna. A note, accompanying the sketches, says that the 
drawings were found on seven stones on the top of the Serra da 
Escama, about 400 bracas distant from the city of Obidos. The 
most of these are wholly unintelligible to me. One, fig. 2, appears 
to represent the sun, and another the moon or sun. 
* In the plate the right is the lower side of this figure. 
