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of the Cerro Duida. . . . The same day was 
rendered memorable by having just before found 
two new nutmegs. 
Dec. 1 6. — We had a dim view of Duida this 
morning. Mosquitoes were terrible to-day, 
especially at 4.30 p.m., when we stopped to cook 
supper. . . . Looking into the cabin afterwards, it 
was like a beehive. 
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FiG, 34. — A Riven Rock in the Bed of the Casiquiari. (R. S.) 
Dec. 17. — Early this morning we reached the 
pueblo of Monagas, called Camaciano, from a 
raudal just above. I here met a Guaharibo, caught 
by Monagas about thirty years ago, and as at that 
time he was a young man apparently of twenty, he 
must now be near fifty. He speaks scarcely any 
Castilian, but through Monagas as interpreter I 
was able to converse with him. His name in his 
own land was Kude-Kubiii, but he has been bap- 
tized Jose Miguel. In personal appearance he is 
low of stature (five feet), pot-bellied and knock- 
kneed (peculiarities of the vegetarian Maciis), fair- 
skinned, and with light hazel eyes. His hair was 
black with a very slight tendency to curl over the 
forehead, where it had been left longer than on the 
rest of the head, in conformity to the custom of the 
