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that had been made to the contrary ; and the only- 
thing to disturb the comfort of our prospects was the 
unanimous and apparently truthful statement of every- 
one that game and fish were so scarce as to be almost 
non-existent in the district. 
SEIDEL, who had arrived at Teroota the day before, 
had gone up that morning to a house which he had built 
for himself far up Roraima, at the nearest available point 
to the base of the cliff-like part. We took up our 
quarters for a day or two in Teroota itself, in order to 
determine our further plans. 
The view of the two mountains, Roraima and Kook- 
enaam from the village of Teroota is of indescribable 
magnificence ; yet, though words must fail to give any 
adequate idea, some attempt must be made to describe 
the main features of the picture. 
The two mountains, the greatest length of both of 
which is from north to south, lie directly east and 
west of each other, only separated by a gorge, which is 
at one point very narrow and is apparently throughout 
the greatest part of its length of no great width. Ro- 
raima, the easternmost of the two mountains, roughly 
speaking, forms at its southernmost point a right, or per- 
haps a slightly obtuse, angle. Westward from the apex 
of this angle the side of the mountain runs upward in a 
generally straight, but really slightly concave, line, for 
about four miles, almost directly north-west, and then, 
forming at that point a somewhat similar angle, which 
angle is the most western point of the mountain, its side 
then turns to the north-east. On the other hand Kook- 
enaam, the westernmost of the two mountains, ends at 
the south in a somewhat rounded point, from which its 
