A BEAUTIFUL ISLAND 
trees with their spotless white branches embellished the 
landscape. 
On the left a tributary of some size entered the Arinos 
from the southeast in two arms with an island between; 
the larger arm was forty metres wide, the smaller ten 
metres. Then another stream entered the Arinos on the 
right side. 
We were again confronted by a large basin enclosed 
on the north by a crescent-shaped wall 100 feet high, at 
the foot of which at the level of the river was a quantity 
of debris of yellow rock. The river at that spot turned 
sharply from 20° bearings magnetic north-northeast, to 
290° bearings magnetic — that is to say, almost north¬ 
west. The width of the Arinos at this point was from 80 
to 100 metres. 
Towards sunset we came to a beautiful island 200 
metres long. We cleared a sufficiently large space in the 
dense and gorgeous vegetation to make our camp for the 
night. 
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