384 
Drios Tattoo the Entire Body. 
956. The meteorological records taken during the nine days' stay 
gave the following results : — 
Date of Observations. 
Instrument. 
Mean. 
Highest. 
Lowest. 
21st August to 1st 
September. 
lOU Observations 
Barometer 
inches 
29.074 
30th Aug. 
noon 
29.139 
29.028 
Attached 
Thermometer 
Thermometer 
Dry Bulb 
Wet Bulb 
degrees 
80.82 
29th Aug. 
2.30 p.m. 
90.44 
65.12 
80.96 
76.42 
91.40 
83. 
65.60 
65.1 
The position of Uio spot was 2' 3' 36" lat. N. and .''►6 34' 3" 
long. ^V. 
*X>~. Tlie next project on which they Avished to embark was to visit 
a setilomcnt of Drios (in the Cniaii. Except that the Drios, like the 
South Sea Islanders, tattoo tlie wliole body, they exactly correspond in 
build and attire Avith tlie Pianoghottos. The position of the settlement 
was 2° 3' 30" lat. X. and .">(► 34' 39" long. ^y. , 
958. Midday on 0th September the five woodskins were packed and 
although the men-folk had already been tiring themselves out for the 
past two days in lia< king a way through the trees banked one on top of 
tlie other, but slow progress was made. Every morning half the people 
had to be sent ahead, in order to. cleai' the waterway at least somewhat. 
On nth Se]itenil!er tliey reached the mouth of the Aramatau, which they 
had crossed on 22nd August: the united stream. a1<out 500 feet wide, 
now took a X.X.W. course. 
950. Some two miles from the junction, there commenced the series 
of cataracts and rapi<ls running in a N.N.E. direction, whereupon the 
river flows X.X.W. again, and soon afterwards receives the Curuni, 
which blusters down a consideral)ly steep precipice where, joined with 
the latter, it immediately rushes over a huge granite dam. Tlie Curnni 
was also unusually well provi<lcd with rapids, and came out of tlie 
E.S.E. The junction of both streams was in 2^ 20' .-,0" lat. N.. 612 
feet above the sea. 
060. The cataracts and ra])ids now followed one another in rapid 
succession. My brother named one of them Sir Walter Raleigh's 
Cataract because, projecting amidst the roaring waters near its base, 
was a huge rock of mica upon which the sun's rays seemed to visualise 
the picture of Guiana painted for Queen Elizabeth by Raleigh. At mid- 
day the temperature rose to 142' in the sun, to which they were exposed, 
because owing to the small size of the woodskins no tent-covers could be 
erected over them. The vegetation of the stream appeared to ho un- 
