41 8 NOTES OF A BOTANIST chap, xn 
quarrel. In a short time Aranau was led out by 
his brother (the aforementioned Miguel), who had 
grasped him in his arms ere he could reach the 
forsaken husband. The storm was now over, but 
dancing was at an end. Drinking of jaraki (caxiri 
of Brazil) went on as before. Most of this is made 
of Yuca, but some is made from yams. It is prepared 
in large ollas (pots), into which calabashes were 
dipped, and, all slimy outside with the beverage, 
dispensed at once to the company. They drank 
enormously ; at first some of them drank two or 
three full calabashes, one after another. At any 
time when their stomachs were inconveniently full 
they seemed to have the faculty of vomiting forth 
its contents, only to make room for its immediate 
repletion with jaraki. The floor was soon in a 
disgusting state. 
The water of the Cunucuniima is black and clear, 
like that of the Guainia. The bottom is sandy 
with rocks sometimes standing out, but from the 
first to the second fall the bed is mostly rock. 
Above this the river is again tranquil and its bed 
sandy, till the third very rocky raudal, from which up- 
wards the river would seem to run chiefly over rock. 
There is mostly very little gapo, but in a few places where the 
shore is gently sloping and sandy I noticed the same Ingas as on 
the Orinoco and Casiquiari. . . . 
The stones mider water in the second fall are covered with a 
green leafy mass of vegetation, which, when it emerges by the 
drying up of the river, raises itself erect and bursts into flower. 
It is composed of two species, one a Hygrophila (Acanthacese), 
and the other a curious Eriocaulacese (Papalanthus). There is also 
a small quantity of Podostemon here and there, but at' the third 
fall the rocks were covered with the same species, only just be- 
ginning to be exposed. 
Game is as frequent as on the Orinoco, and fish nearly as much 
so. There were no turtle. 
