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95 feet aiul the other 65 feet, especially interested us owing to a peculiar 
impression on the surface of their summits: they at the same time 
reminded me of a similar freak of Nature in the homeland. As in the 
wildly romantic Bode valley of the Hartz Mountains, the highest rocky 
top shows distinct tracks of a horse on the jump, so here on both granite 
boulders one is apt to be deceived by the imprint of a human foot just 
in such a way as if somebody had sprung from one stone to the other: 
the representation of the whole foot, but particularly that of the five 
toes is indeed remarkable. The Indians told us, with a certain amount of 
awe, that, this was the trail left behind by the Great Spirit when he still 
lived amongst their forefathers and had wandered through the district. 
These two huge granite blocks had apparently been oue boulder in 
previous times : as the result of natural causes this had burst and was 
completely split. The coloured people called them “Jump-stones/’ 
750. The Rapids commencing above these interesting boulders con- 
tinue in similar if not increased number on their farther side also, so 
that during the course of a whole day from sunrise to sunset it often 
happened that, we barely covered three or four miles. The uncommon 
skill and facility in swimming, that I had hitherto only had opportunity 
of admiring in the Indian males, was displayed by their women to an 
equal degree, for Sororeng’s wife and mother-in law braved the whirlpool 
when hauling their boat just as well as the men, and swam rope in hand 
through the blustering eddy from crag to crag with the same ease as 
they did. 
751. On the 18th January we at, last reached the Twasinki Range 
rising 1,100 feet above river level on the western bank, while some miles 
farther in the background the Akaiwanna Range, some 1,000 feet, in 
height, rose on the eastern shore. Both these ranges impinge upon the 
river in such a way as to force it into a regular S, a double bend, the 
total course of which amounts to abont, 6 miles. Innumerable rapids and 
eyots with intricate channels, the waters of which often seem to be changed 
into masses of foam, render this stretch almost un navigable. Of the 
three most, considerable waterfalls which are found within this reach, 
that of Yucuribi* in 4° 59' lat. N. is the most dangerous. A huge rocky 
dam, formed of granite and gneiss boulders piled up on top of one 
another in layers, that cuts the river from north to south, is responsible 
for the really grandiose scenery here: the mountain ranges simul- 
taneously recede somewhat from either side of the river and by that 
means form the most magnificent mountain amphitheatre that, the 
imagination can shape, an amphitheatre in the arena of which the wildly 
raging foaming and thundering waves of the river, already cribbed and 
cramped by the preceding rapids, rush against one another in the most 
awful strife. The waterfall must have been visited several times already 
by enterprising colonists, because several names and initial letters were 
seen to have been cut, on the trees standing near. 
threat Yucuribi Fall is over diabase (E.E W), 
