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629. The first few days at Pirara naturally passed very quickly in 
telling one another what we had heen doing since we parted. As already 
mentioned my brother had left Our Village on the morning of 5th 
December. The path led straightway up-hill where those conglomerate 
masses of ferruginous clay, with which the savannahs of the Takutu and 
Rupununi are covered, were everywhere met with. In the afternoon they 
again went dowivhill and soon crossed the track along which my 
brother had reached Roraima in 1838. The small settlement Waramatipu 
in which he had stayed on that occasion had disappeared : some spots of 
low brush-wood alone showed that houses had once upon a time stood 
here, nothing else being left to indicate the pleasant little village of 
those days. ToAvards evening and tired they reached Canaupang, the 
village of our friend Kaikurang, where some of the residents, on 
seeing that their chief was accompanying my brother, expressed their 
readiness to come also: he had accordingly to remain a couple of days 
there to allow them time for collecting provisions. In the course of his 
short strolls he found on the banks of the Mapauri a little forest formed 
entirely of the "Akawni-nutmeg" or Camara, and as they were in flower 
he was able to determine the tree as AcrodlcluJlnm Camara. 
6o0. On December 8th my brother left Canaupang villnge, climbed 
the mountain which had given the name to it, and on the summit, in the 
hope of getting hold of some skeletons turned with Sororeng along a side- 
path in the neiglibourhood of Arawayam village, where the oft-time men- 
tioned feud had broken out, and the victims of which ought still to be lying 
unburied on the held of battle. Unfortunately he came a few days too late 
because, judging from several indications, the relatives of those fallen 
' had only just left the scene of sti4fe with the collected bones for their 
present settlement. In the afternoon they reached the Yuruani which 
already had a breadth of 500 feet, although its source of origin could 
hardly l)e 10 miles behind them : its depth varied l)etween 6 and 1.3 feet. 
The first thing they managed to do next morning was to take the luggage 
over in a small "wood-skin" which they fortunately found there. The 
road again led up-hill over terrace-like sandstone steps dotted with 
numerous rounded-off quarts-fragments. Owing to the wash of the 
rain-showers pouring down over the horizontal strata, the latter had 
developed quite a columnar structure in certain places. A deep land- 
slip had taken on a very interesting and curious appearance through 
two columnar hardened masses of clay which rose from the bottom of 
the cauldron-like excavation to a height of 20 feet. 
631. Travelling in a south-westei-ly direction the party reached 
towards two o'clock the junction of the Kukenam and Yuruani from 
which spot both streams now receive the name Caroni that falls into 
the Orinoco below Angostura. From the hill on which they stood the 
whole Roraima range from Carauringtipu to the eastern end of the 
mountain could be seen.- They spent the night on a swampy mountain 
savannah. The luxuriant vegetation consisted chiefly of Melanthaceae, 
Erocaiiloneae, Xyrideae, and Commeh/naceae. Many of these plants 
were quite new to my brother: among such were two Rapateae, 
