DESCRIPTION OF THE PLATES 



IN 



THE SECOND VOLUME. 



DIAMOND WASHING AT CURRALmUO... Frontispiece, 



The negroes looking for diamonds, sit in a row on a bench 

 in a shallow pond. Some are busy washing, in wooden 

 bowls (pateas, gamellas), the gravel taken from the bed 

 of the river ; others hold up their arms, with their fingers 

 spread, to show that they have found nothing in the 

 bowls, which are swimming empty in the water, or they are 

 fetching fresh gravel from the heap near them. Before 

 the pond is a bowl with clean water, into which a negro is 

 going to put the diamond he has just found, after holding 

 it up between his fingers to show it. To the right and 

 left, on a seat a little raised, and under a kind of parasol, 

 is an overseer to watch the negroes at their work. The 

 director, who is just arrived, puts the diamonds that have 

 been found into a bag. 



JUKI and MIRANHA To face page 4'}, 



Juri is the son of a cacique of the nation of the Juri, and the 

 tribe Juri Comas, on the Rio Purges, which flows into the 

 Japura, whom we delivered from his captivity among the 

 Miranhas, and carried with us to Munich. 



Miranha is a girl of the cannibal tribe of the Miranhas, a 

 warlike and numerous nation on the upper part of the Rio 



