Note 63 — THE CATARACTS OF THE ORINOCO.
Elizabeth Juliana Sabine translation
p. 229.—“The vault or cemetery of an extinct nation.”
During the period of my stay in the forests of the Orinoco, these caves of bones were examined by order of the Court. The Missionary of the Cataracts had been unjustly accused of having discovered in the caves treasures which had been hidden there by the Jesuits previous to their flight.