from a room upstairs, accompanied b

O direct our steps. CHAPTER XXXI THE PLACE OF THE PAINTED HANDS Upon
leaving the Spanish settlement, Queen Barreto provided us with an escort
to guide us to the caves in which it was reported gold was to be found.
The country outside the settlement was of the same rocky, barren nature
as everywhere along the coast, while the natives we encountered were
hostile and warlike. Armed with spears and slings, they attacked us, and
were only driven off after many had been slain. Pedro de Castro did not
accompany us. He had pleaded a disinclination to leave his mother so
soon after their long separation. At the time we thought his conduct
strange, but in return for the assistance that Queen Barreto had given
us, we promised him a share of any gold obtained. At length, after a
day's journey, we came to the entrance to the caves, a gloomy portal to
a tunnel which ran into a high rocky cliff from which issued a sluggish
stream over a bed of water-worn pebbles. At the entrance to this dark
recess, upon the face of a flat rock, appeared painted hands, some with
six fingers, some with four, and others with only two. They were painted
with a dark brown pigment, and were easily discernib

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