274 A Remarkable Growth of Musa. 
jrith the sound of the fife, and soon saw five men coming along, but vbo 
in consequence of the bacchanalian feast were still so overcome as to 
render it impossible to have a sensible talk with them. It was only on 
the next morning that this was possible. As Kaikurang wanted to 
return from here to Canaupang, he handed the party over to the chief 
of Carimang, who was to take them to the first Akawai settlement. The 
village lay in 5° 44' lat. N. The difference between the dry and wet 
bulb thermometer seldom measured more than 2 degrees, its highest 
position 81°, its lowest 66.2° F. : the height was 1,830 feet above sea 
level. 
639. On the morning of 19th December the party left the little 
village and followed for a time the bank of the Carimang. After a two- 
hours' march they reached the isolated crag Kapoi-tipu, i.e., moon-rock, 
which rises to about 400 ft. and has received its name from a yellow semi' 
lunar-shaped mass of quartz embedded in the sandstone. 
640. In Carimang they brought my brother fruits of the Musa para- 
'disiaca and 51. mpienturri which must be growing wild in the neiglibour- 
hood. Kear Kapoi-tipu he also found the former flourishing among 
'ffelicoma and Ravenald whence they stretched for more than half a 
aay's journey along the T^anlc of the little stream Paruima. The soil 
Consisted of a yellow ferruginous clay mixed with sand and quartz frag- 
ments. Some of the plants reached a height of 50 feet and their stems 
a thickness of 4 ft. with the rpsult that they formed so thick a fence that 
the party had to cut ä way through. My brother found no seed-grains 
in the fruits the shape of which at the same time also differed essontiallv 
from those of the cultivated plant, in that not only were they considerably 
larsrer but not so sharply triancrular. "It was not men, but Makunaima 
when he yet lived off eärth, who brought the plants here." However 
in\>ch the statement that the "Musd is not alone peculiar to the tronics of 
the bid world hut also to those of the new may militate against all past 
experience, the occurrence of so luxuriant a growth over an area of 
more than KO square miles is nevertheless very remarkable: the absence 
of seed-£rrairi in the fruits of course conflicts with the assumption that 
It is indigenous. The Indians had also shewn us previously several 
place« wh«^^«^ \\\f^ were 'rn'owing wilVl. c.a., Mt. Vi vi on the Knpunnni. 
641. Thev pitched their catnr» at the foot of Mt. Warima-tipu, ia 
gandstone cliff similar to TCapoi-tipu, except that on one side it conld he 
fclimhed. From the top, almost overgrown with f^nlirah'op. thev saw the 
KuffP obelisk-like Trutipu in R. bv E. The ^ohralin FJi-wfirfJinr had 
individual stems 18 ft. hiffh, w^hile a MaTtÜarin with reddish brown 
Mossoms occupied whole tracts exclusively. Excer>t for a PapVionarpa, 
the onlv arboreal form present, the snrface was otherwise covered with 
orchids, a bush-lik'e 'ülmla and several equally bnshy species of 
642. Äfter followiTTer the "Paruima Ta tributary of the rarimanffV 
'for some time, they crossed it in a woodskin and on the opnosite shore 
commenced to climb up-hill afffiS'n'. TTdoti the tor*, mv brother tioti'^orf 
towards the west a steen, about 2,000 ft. high, mountain chain which the 
Indians called Kaum-tipu ^CauratipuV. It also seemed to belong to 
the sandstone formatJoS. ^ 
