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their talk to each other they were saying, " This is 
so-and-so, and this so-and-so." "Yes," I struck in, 
and don't you think this is so-and-so ? " Thus led 
on, I got them to give their opinion of most of the 
figures. About some they were quite certain ; about 
Fig. 16. — Group of Pictures at Laja de Capibara, 
River Casiquiari. 
Others they would only speculate. Of all the figures 
the one marked G (Fig. 16) was that whose origin 
seemed clearest both to them and to me. It repre- 
sents a mandiocca-oven (called budari in Barre) — a 
large circular dish of fireproof pottery, supported 
on a wall of mud-masonry, which has an opening 
