xvi NOTES OF A BOTANIST 
ciano— A riven rock — Picture-writing — Guaharibo Indian 
— Monagas — Botany of the Casiquiari — Reach the 
Orinoco — Esmeralda — Description of Esmeralda and 
Duida — A magnificent scene — " In reality an Inferno " — 
The inhabitants — Descend to the Cunucuniima river — 
Stop at second fall — On in small canoe — Tussari's pueblo 
— Maquiritari Indians — Manufactures and produce — 
A native dance — A quarrel — Vegetation — Return — 
Descent of first fall dangerous — Enter Casiquiari — 
Pueblo de Monagas — Notes on vegetation — Entered 
Lake Vasiva — Startling explosion — Ascent of the Paci- 
moni river — The vegetation — Pueblo do Custodio — 
Narrow stream for two days — Two miles of path to Sta. 
Isabel — No provisions — A dance — To the Cerro Imei — 
Return to San Custodio — Cerro Tarurumari — Low but 
fine view — Interesting plants — Letter to Sir W. Hooker 
— Summary of journey — Vegetation of the Casiquiari, 
Pacimoni, and Esmeralda — The story of Custodio — Note 
on the sources of the Orinoco . . . -385 
CHAPTER XIII 
TO THE CATARACTS OF THE ORINOCO AND RETURN 
TO SAN CARLOS 
To Tomo — Road to Javita — Javita and Balthazar — Padre 
Arnaoud— San Fernando de Atabapo — -National hacienda 
— Vegetation of rivers Temi and Atabapo — Voyage down 
the Orinoco — Reach Maypures at night — Dangerous 
entrance — Description of Maypures — The pilot of the 
falls — Picture of San Jose — The village — Surrounding 
campos and sierras — View of the falls — Vegetation on 
the rocks — Preparing dried beef — Incessant labour — 
Fever — Return to San Fernando — At point of death for 
five weeks — His nurse wishes him dead — At Javita, 
carried to Pimichin — List of plants at Maypures — Return 
to San Carlos — Decadence of Spanish Venezuela under 
the Republic — The growth of San Carlos — The Pataua 
palm — Vegetable oils of the Rio Negro and Orinoco — 
Insects used for food — Remarkable thunderstorms . 449 
