^HE GREAT CAVERN OF GUACHARO. 119* 
Indians enter into the Cueva del Guacharo once 
. Tiofk*. r 1 l'»v means of 
• •cveral thousands or Dims are Kineu ; aim tnc 
tile"* defend their brood, hover around the lieads of 
9pJ?'«ge Indians, littering terrible cries, which would 
W but that of man in an untutored state. 
c»v„.!^°'’°^ed, as we continued our progress through the 
9t)(j '• ' banks of the small river which issued from it. 
On (.1* twenty-eight to thirty feet wide. We walked 
ttuif as far as the hills formed of calcareous in- 
-erv I permitted us. When the torrent winds among 
losL masses of stalactites, we were often obliged to 
,V. into its bed, 11(111011 is only two feet m depth. 
V«f 
'Vole 
i, 
^ 113 nea, VKinca i» vniy ... 
ti, -“'■nt, with surprise, that this subterraneous rivulet 
Hist,! “’■‘gin of the river Caripe, which, at a few leagues 
having joined the small river of Santa 
■^feo ’ *^avigable for canoes. It enters into the river 
onti ‘{^‘ler the name o£ Canno dc Terezcn. 
th the name of Can?w tie Terezcn. We found 
Of banks of the subterraneous rivulet a great quantity 
hi(|jijj^!''tvee Wood, the remains of trunks, on whicr^the 
iilia,,. V. tlie remains oi u > 
le Hlitnb to reach the nests hanging to the roots ot 
I he rings, formed by the vestiges of the old 
‘HoUtJii • I he rings, formed by the vestiges oi uie uiii 
a kjj . hs of the leaves, furnish as it were the footsteps of 
'rij '^pPorpendicularly placed. . 
1 '^’’otto of Caripe preserves the same direction, the 
*6et .^*^®adth, and its primitive height of sixty or seven^ 
Have distance of 1458 feet, accurately measured. 
seen a cavern in either continent, ot so uni- 
'a Per- '^®g*^^ar a construction. We had great difficulty 
af the Indians to pass beyond the outer part 
Hollem '•he only part wliicli they annnally visit to 
‘‘ecessjbe fat. -pj^g authority of los padres was 
''here J ’ induce them to advance as far as the spot 
^*■608 ®“‘i rises abruptly at an incUnatian of sixty de- 
V *-hn torrent forms a small subterraneous 
'^ve, ; V ,.rhe natives connect mystic ideas with this 
’'Whited by nocturnal birds ; they believe, that the 
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phenomenon of a .uhterranean ca«iade, but on 
hi England, at Yordas Cave, near Kingadale, : 
