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Baeang has to be Propitiated. 
the Bapatea Friderici Augusti and the new species Saxo-Fridericia 
Regalis with its glossy leaves and beautiful yellow blossoms.* After 
being startled during the night with an awful storm they continued their 
journey in the morning, and at the end of a 4-mile stretch, found them- 
selves on top of the range, from which all tlie waters flowed northerly to 
the Apauwanga, a tributary of the Caroni : the former appeared to have 
a S.S.W. course. The slope of the mountain declined towards the N. 
and at 11 o'clock' they stood on an abrupt precipice at the bottom of 
which the Cama meandered its way. In the neighbourhood of the steep 
descent my brother finally discovered in bloom one of those plants that 
had already aroused his interest in 1838 and which on the Humirida had 
stimulated it in us anew: it was a new Jiarharciiid which, in honour of 
the Empress of Russia, he called Barbacenia Alewandrinae* While the 
Indians who now saw the valley and the new watershed for the first time, 
(so as to propitiate Barang, the mighty spirit,) rubl)ed their eyes with 
powdered cayenne i)epper, Kaikurang, who did not need to practise these 
devotions, served my brother as an excellent guide in this lovely area. 
The mountain chain which he still had to cross on his journey to the 
Cuyuui stretched away into tlie blue distance: the savannahs, furrowed 
with streams, spread tliemselves out between it and his standpoint: 
in N. by E. a second, range of uionntains, along which the Mazaruni 
should lie flowing, r-an from E.SE. to W.N.W. .Tndgiup,- from its contour 
it must rise jnst as steeply as Roraima, a fact which my brother confirmed 
with his telescope as soon as the sun could forge a way through the 
broken clouds and shine upon its sides. From the red colouration of 
the abrupt slopes, the mountain chain lielongs to the same formation as 
Roraima. My brother thought that he recognised in the former the 
mountains which Mr. Hillhouse on his journey up the Mazaruni called 
St. George and took to be quartz rocks although they are sandstone 
beyond a doubt. The Cama, whlich has its source on the Irutipu, flowed 
along their base into the Apauwanga. On the North the Irutipu has 
quite the appearance of an immense obelisk. Somewhat to the East of 
the Cama, on the northern side of Irutipu, the r-iver Ouyara runs along 
to join the western Cako which flows into the Mazaruni. The Cako takes 
its rise in the peculiar base of that remarkable mountain which the 
Indians call Waiaka-piapa, i.e., felled waiaka tree.f In the afternoon 
they reached two houses on the bank of the Cama. in about 5° 12' lat. N., 
where they spent the night, but the clouded skies did not permit of any 
astronomical observations. The thermometer had until now usuallv 
recorded a temperature of C)7h° F. at 6 a.m., 79i°F. at noon, and 
68i°F. in the evening, which gave an average of 72.7^F. 
632. As my brother, in addition to his objective already mentioned, 
was anxious to learn the extent of the basin of the Mazaruni, he now 
turned to the west to visit the sources of the Carimang or Carimani a 
south-westerly tributary of the Mazaruni. On the 12th December after 
crossing a little forest, they unexpectedly stood at the beautiful Cama 
* Tlie foot-notes givitig the technical descriptions of these plaTits. in Latin, 
t The iyi3 official map of British Guiana does not show thk. (Ed.) 
