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the highest fall, and cannot be reached without risk. 
They were engraved by a young woman who was 
lamenting the death of her mother, for whose 
epitaph they were probably intended. Day by 
day she sat on the rock engaged in her task, while 
her fast-falling tears ceased not to mingle with the 
cataract. Thus months passed away, until one day 
the maiden, worn with grief and fading almost to a 
shadow, fell over the rock and disappeared among 
the roaring breakers at its base. 
I had not with me pencil or paper of any kind, 
and I w^as obliged to content myself with a hasty 
glance at the figures, some of which represented 
human beings ; nor was I able to revisit the spot. 
On the top of the same rock there are shallow 
impressions, apparently the work of nature, which 
bear some resemblance to a human form, and are 
called by the Indians Tupana-rangaua (the figure 
of God). The damsels of the Paapun's visit the 
spot on stated occasions, and kneeling down on the 
knees of the figure, perform some kind of devotion 
— what, I could not learn. 
I copied a few rude figures on the rocks near 
the village of Jauarite. Those on Fig. 21 seem to 
represent very rudely various types of trees, as seen 
in the three figures on the right. The two upper 
ones indicate a buttressed stem or aerial roots, with 
flowers or fruits on the three terminal branches ; 
while the lower one has a tap-root, and diverging 
branches of a more usual type. The lower middle 
figure is probably the very rudest symbol of a 
human form ; while the remainder seem to be 
merely fanciful geometrical patterns. 
The large figure on Fig. 22 is called by the Indians 
