Title: The American Museum journal
Identifier: americanmuseumjo11amer (find matches)
Year: c1900-(1918) (c190s)
Authors: American Museum of Natural History
Subjects: Natural history
Publisher: New York : American Museum of Natural History
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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own Indiims were sciil I'oi- l)c;ircrs to the set tK'niriil on llic ( iH'ii.ipow u iilxmt "llolinia," tlic lioiiic of tlic l.ilc Dr. Hovalliiis. thirty miles Ix-yond the rim of the irrrat falls. On .Inly l".l, Sprostoiis' men carried up eiioii^di ecpiiiJUient to otaMisli a cami) and lield-i)ase on tlie I'otaro l(i\cr, aliont ji mile al)o\e the falls, when- 1 took up my work. Xo phototii-aph or xcrhal description can set foi-th the niaL;ni(icence ol Kaieteur Iallsaiid the wonilerfnl iieauly of 1 heir set tin feet hiuii, the white w alers i-oll dow n fi'oiii the hard rock on the brim to rush ilia cataract through the ureat gorye, nearly a thousand leet lie- low the li'\'el of the plateau. It was a delight to e.xphtre the forests and saxannahs of this plateau, and to f,^ain with every day new views of the beauty of this natural niar\(>l. Our Indian niessen^-ers re- turned on tile twenty-first with a party of ele\-eii ('lienaj)owu natives and better still, with a "ballyhoo" (or ()unt) which was very old but none the less serviceable. Shy and reticent at first, the Indians soon resjionded to advances and by the twenty- eighth, when all the jioods were brought uj), eoivlial relations had l)een establi>he(l. I )i-. Luiz, who had remained below to study the Tukeit region in de- tail, came up with the last car- riers to occupy the camp and to make a close comj)arati\e study of the savannahs and forests of the Kaieteur Plateau, while I pushed on to Brazil in the \u)\)v of reaching Horaima. It is true the attempt seemed foolhardy in \iew of the short time a\ailal)le and the arduous natiu-e of the joiUMiey beyond, but it was thought that at least the Brazilian sa\annahs could be gained and studied, while chance might fax'or the successful aeeomplishmenT of the whole journey. Accord-

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