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so much of it together as at the Laja de Capibara. 
The best executed figures, however, I have met 
with, and the only ones about which I could make 
out any extant tradition, are in the river Paapun's, 
which enters the Uaupes from the south at Jauarite 
caxoeira, and is inhabited by Fish and Mosquito 
Indians (Pira-Tapuyas and Carapanas). The Paa- 
FiG. 20. — Group of Pictures on Right Bank of the Casiquiari, 
A little above the Cano de Calipo. 
pun's in its lower part is an uninterrupted and 
dangerous rapid ; and at Aracapa caxoeira, a few 
miles up, two islands divide it into three narrow 
channels, each of which is a nearly perpen- 
dicular cascade of about 15 feet high. At this 
point canoes have to be unladen and dragged over 
one of the islands, which are masses of granite 
having on them much picture-writing, where not 
clad with shrubs. The most distinct figures are 
on the top of a rock which rises perpendicularly by 
