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How Fryer's Cataract got Named. 
medium apple. A third iuterestiiig tree Avas the fiicarizia tomentosa 
DeC the Irumvoud of the Colonists and the Talo sauto of the Portu- 
guese ; the bark eontuius a red balsamic principle, used *bj the aborigines 
as a sudorific. After t!he tree has been ;l}elled the timber has a red 
brown colour, which later on however changes to\ a deep black. 
IUI). Besides the, (Jcniim^a\arat\0), the Iikjw supplied us with a glori- 
ous delicacy because upon almost every branch there lurked an iguana 
upon which all arrows were immediately directed. Tlie majority of the 
females: had from] 18 to 24 eggs in the ovaries. 
710. Just as Ave had negotiated a dangerous fall, one of the Indians 
noticed a Giant Ant-eater that had come down to the river to drink. 
When the animal became conscious of the danger threatening, it clam- 
bered up the bank and huriied to the savannah. We quickly followed 
after it, but in our excessive haste left the gun and other A\eapous 
behind in the corial. The swift-footed Indians soon came up) with the 
fugitive which, in the absence of other weapons, they tried to kill by 
pelting it with stones: in peculiarly piteous notes the apprehensive 
creature repeated, the many manoeuvres which B had noted on previous 
occasions, until, when fatally hit with a stone, it tremblingly tottered a 
few steps forwai'ds and fell dead all of a heap. It was again a female, 
which strengthened me anew in the opiu'ion that these edentates are 
close u])on extinction. During the hunt my brother had; stopped at the 
mouth of the ( 'amai-karil)a or ^Maycar. \\ hich joins the Rui)nnuui on the 
western bank, to pass the night here because the third corial, in which 
Avei-e Mr. Fryer and (Joodall, was still behind. It just api^'arcd on tli<^ 
summit of the rapid already lying ])ast us when, as quick as lightning, it 
was drawn down the fall again^ and disappeared from view. At the 
very instant that it was dragged back by tlie current, we f^iw the crew 
jump into the river and the corial abandoned to its inevitable fate. We 
believed that Fryer and Goodall h'ad themselves gone : it was a frightful 
moment until the sight of the uninjured quietly rocking corial relieved 
our anxiety. The presence of mindj of Sororeng and two other Indians 
w*ho had not left their posts had saved' the lives of rur companions, the 
vessel, and its baggage. A real deadly pallor covered the faces of our 
friends as they came up to us, but then they had stood nearer to death 
than ever before. Äs they reached the summit of the fall, land wanted 
to cross the sb'eam,i'the strength of the crew wlas exhausted, th(e boat 
could not be moved from the 'spot for some seconds, and with the sinews 
of the paddlers completely relaxed, it was dragged down the stream 
again. The cataract that brought such danger in its wake and for which 
the Indians had no name, was on this account christened Fryer's 
Cataract, and is so marked in the map. 
711. During the night the pouring rain never stopped for a moment, 
and the rising flood had fairly reached up' to us by dawn. About eight 
o'clock in the morning it slackened a bit, and we quickly struck camp to 
resume our journey. During this interval my brother had clindied a. 
small rise near by, from which we saw him hurriedly return : liehind it he 
had seen the water just like a wall rolling along the savannah towards 
as. In frantiq haste we therefore tore down the tent and threw luffcaire 
