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Lichen-like Skix Diseases. 
my brother, \^■l)ic•ll Mr. JJeuthuim had named after Allan Cunniugliaiu, 
so celebrated in connection with the Australian and New Zealand Uura. 
Like the Calycvpli i/lluiii i<ianh'ijanu)n, it is also one of the most lovely 
ornaments of the tropics.' The beautiful Indigofci'o pascnoruiit. Bcnth., 
Ca.sfiia uniflom and C. ruinosa Yogel, Farainea longifoiia Benth., and 
Coffea cntssiloha Benth., alternated witli the white snow-covered 
blossoming Eugenias and Psidknns. The palms had entirely disappeared 
from the banks since the day before yesterday. 
()97. In the morning (lOtli May) the thermometer was 83.3° F.: the 
wet bulb on tlie otlier liand 7!) " F. This difference of 4.;r showed 
plainly that the air Avas less moist than the day before, a fact that was 
also demonstrated by the rain having ceased during the whole of the 
night. 
G9S. Shortly before our departure we received another visit from 
40 Indians, men, Avomen, and chiklren, the residents of a settlement in 
the close neighbourhood. Among them was a woman far advanced in 
years, wasted to a skeleton, with long white hair who was still further 
remarkable in that her whole body was dotted with irregular isolated 
whitish, often also snow-white, spots from the size of a pea to that of a 
walnut which, on the back changed to a yellowish-white colour. The 
s])ots appeared in the greatest number on the al)douu'n: from th(4r scaly 
lichen-like nature, they were a sequel of the frequent skiivdiseases with 
which the Indians are afflicted.* She was also an old acquaintance of my 
brother, who in 1838 gave her hardly a month more to live. By devoting 
her whole love to a bonny young mother with infant in arms, and never 
leaving her side, the contrast lietween frail old age and the jierfection of 
vigorous youth became all the more marked . 
099. There followed upon the rainless night a morning the like of 
which only the lively inuiginalion of a poet can at all portray. The 
refreshing and lovely perfumes of the foliaged mountain-slopes were 
wafted over to us on the strong south-east breeze, while the forest- 
crowned sunauits proudly raised their stately heads already glowing in 
the morning sun and repeated the thunder of our guns a thousand times 
over in a rumbling echo that finally faded away in a soft murmur : to 
the intense joy of the assembled Indians we had fired them off when 
pushing away from the bank. After tliis enchanting idyll there fol- 
lowed the contentious epic : during the course of the day we had to sur- 
mount the Curnayair (Bent Fall), Euru-mru, Tremitre, Trekutara- 
tepau and several other Falls. The Matziendaua Mountains formed, on 
the western bank, the soutb eastern spur of the Canuku Range: they 
extended N.N.W. and were connected with the high Awarre-tequi and 
Burukutuau-yari. The small mountain stream, the Meneruau 
meandered along their base. Opposite the Matziendaua Range, the 
Catuau-aru, which has its source in the savannah soutUeast of Mt. 
Tarucupani, empties into the Rupununi on the eastern bank: Mt. 
Burutuau-yari lies IS". 27° E. from its mouth. 
' Tlie (?c unlit i( III described here is probably the result of an old iiinietiginous infection 
of the skin, wliidi sometimes leiu'es areas of pigmentation. (F.ti.R.) 
