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TRAVELS ON THE AMAZON. 
\September. 
matical figures, while there were some very complicated 
and fantastic forms : all were scattered irregularly over 
the rock to the height of eight or ten feet. The size of 
most of the figures was from one to two feet. 
I took a general sketch of the whole, and some accu- 
rate tracings of the more curious single figures, which 
have unfortunately been since lost. The night felt chilly 
and damp, and we had nothing to cover ourselves with, 
or should have slept on the mountain. As it was, we 
arrived home very tired about eight o'clock, and were 
glad soon to turn into our hammocks. 
The next day Senhor Nunez determined to go with us 
himself, to show us the cave and some more picture- 
writings, situated in another part of the mountain. We 
now went on horseback, but could no more find the cave 
than before, and were forced to send our Indian for an 
old man who lived a couple of miles olf, and who knew 
the place well. While he was gone, Senhor Nunez went 
with me to find the picture-writings, which we did after 
a fatiguing walk. They were situated on a perpendicular 
rock, rising from the top of a steep, stony slope, which 
almost deterred me from getting up to them, as I was 
very tired and thirsty, and there was no water. How- 
ever, having come on purpose to see them, I was deter- 
mined to persevere, and soon reached the place. They 
were much larger than the others, and extended higher 
up the rock; the figures, too, were all different, con- 
sisting principally of large concentric circles, called by 
the natives the sun and moon, and several others more 
complicated and three or four feet high. Among them 
were two dates of years about 1770, in very neat well-j 
