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and logs had been laid over canos and hollows filled 
with water in the winter, but as all the ways along 
which heavy goods can be carried are by water a 
pueblo is ill - situated when remote from easily 
navigable waters. 
Sta. Isabel is inhabited principally by Cunipusana 
Indians, of whom there are still a good many from 
Fig. 41. — Pueblo de Sta. Isabel, with Cerro Tibiali, Rio Pacimoni, 
not far from the sources of the orinoco. (r. s. ) 
the head-waters of the Pacimoni towards the Siapa, 
and on the Carlo Castano. There are also a good 
many Mandauaca Indians, who seem to have been 
the original inhabitants of the Upper Pacimoni, a 
few Manaca Indians, and a family .of Yabahanas 
brought by Custodio from Marania. 
There are fourteen houses (of which one is the 
casa real), and every house contains at least two 
families. They are built principally round a plaza 
slightly sloping to the canito, which runs to the 
Uaranaka. The ground is sandy, rising at the 
back (to the N.W.) to a low hill. To the N.E., 
