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A Family or Zurumatas. 379 
936. On the 23rd July the Wamaru Serrika Fall forced them to 
unload the boats and carry them together with the baggage along the 
banks, a labour that, was only completed by evening. The height of 'the 
fall was 45 feet. 
937. They had hardly proceeded a mile on the morning of 2J:th July 
when a new cataract soon followed by several others, though not sd 
considerable, in rapid succession, forced them to commence afresh the 
wearisome work of yesterday. On the afternoon of iMJth July they 
reached Karamutahura Fall which was especially conspicuous by the 
fact that the greatest portion of the water Avas carried away in a south- 
easterly by easterly direction in a 450 foot long natural granite aque- 
duct. The fall started twenty feet above the remaining portion of the 
nuiss of water, which had already at its comntencement rushed down 
into the <lepths, and flowed on aloug the bottom of the aqueduct at the 
termination of which it joined the Avaters rushing down it from the 
cataract. The boats had to be let town hert^ Avith ropes. The party 
had hardly put a half mile l>etween them and the Fall, when they reached 
the top of a new cataract where tlie current rolled over a sharply inclined 
mass of granite l,r>00 ft. long and then rushed headlong over a mighty 
steep precipice, and boats had accordingly to be emptied again. The 
black Pacu was so plentiful here that within a short while they were able 
to kill 21. partly with arrows and partly Avith cutlasses. 
938. According to barometric reading, the bed of the river was now 
222 ft. lower than in the environs of the Maopityan settlement, so 
that the gradient Avas 4.4 ( ?) ft. to the mile. The position of the cnrionH 
cataract just mentioned ,Avas 1° 20' 50" lat. N. and 57° 10' 50" long. W. 
939. From the many tracks which they found next morning in the 
sand, jaguars must be pretty plentiful there. Towards midday they 
passed the mouth of the Camu (Sun River) which flowed into the 
Caphiwuin from the N.N.E. 
940. On the 28th they finally struck again one of those fisherman's 
huts which the Indians are accustomed to build at spots Avhere fish are 
plentiful. ISince Uwiya ( Sect. 034) this was the first, just as its en- 
virons seemed to be the "ultima Thnle" of the Maopityans. A small 
fall, which however offered many difficulties to its passage, induced my 
brother to pass the night at its suinmil . They had hardly pitched the 
tent when at some distance away rising smoke indicated the presence 
of people in the neighbourhood. One of the Avoodskins was let down the 
cataract, and on paddling to the column of smoke they found a family 
of Zurumatas, a branch trilie of the Pianoghottos, consisting of a man, a 
young woman, a girl, and a l>oy: the latter were completely naked. 
Judging by his build of body, the man seemed to correspond entirely 
with the Maopityans except that, unlike them, he did not wear a pig- 
tail. The qneyu of the woman was made out of seed -pips. They were 
just then returning to their home Avliich aaus still 5 days' journey from 
here. 
941. On the 29th July they reached the junction of the Wanamu 
with the Caphiwuin. The foi-mer comes from N. by F., while the conrse 
of the Caphiwuin shortly l»efore its junction is entirely 81° E. : as a 
