48o NOTES OF A BOTANIST 
pilot told me that farther away in the forest there 
were more granite sheets covered with pictures, I 
was obliged to content myself with what I had 
Fig. i8. — Group of Pictures at Laja de Capibara, 
River Casiquiari. 
already seen and done ; for I had engaged to meet 
the Comisario of San Fernando at Esmeralda on 
Christmas Day, and to get there I had still a long 
voyage before me, going slowly along as I did in 
my large boat and gathering plants all the way. 
