8 TlMEHRI. 
I may here take the opportunity of stating that at 
each inhabited place to which we came we left a certain 
amount of provisions, tobeusedon our homeward journey ; 
a circumstance which afterward proved ot the greatest 
advantage to us. 
While our messengers were fetching the baggage to 
Konkarmo, we found plenty to occupy us. There, as we 
had found throughout the course of our journey to that 
point, the country had been so long without rain that 
hardly a flower was to be seen ; and but very little 
botanical collecting was possible. But at Konkarmo 
there were other circumstances of interest. There, for 
the first and only time in Guiana, I saw stone implements 
made, and indeed actually learned to make them myself, 
after the rather peculiar manner there followed. There, 
too, the people, who were very numerous and most 
hospital and kind, tried to interest us, and effectually 
succeeded in so doing, in many ways, especially perhaps 
by dancing and playing games for us after their own 
manner. Not the least curious or the pleasantest mat- 
ter to be studied at Konkarmo was the extraordinary 
ecclesiastical mania which then possessed the people of 
that place and of that whole neighbourhood, inducing 
them to give up almost all work and to devote themselves 
instead, throughout the day, to an extravagant and 
perfectly unintelligent imitation of such church services 
as some few of the party had seen, when on their travels, 
at the distant mission. But these are all subjects which 
must be told of on some other occasion. 
From Konkarmo, too, we sent for certain Arekoona In- 
dians, living in the direction of Roraima, who were said 
to know the path to that mountain ; and they, on their 
