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of the Uaupé Indians, the young men who figure in the dances drink of 
the Caapi five or six times during the night, the dose being a small 
cuya, the size of a very small teacup, twice filled. In two minutes after 
drinking it its effects begin to be apparent: the Indian turns deadly 
pale, trembles in every limb, and horror is in his aspect ; suddenly con- 
trary symptoms succeed: he bursts into a perspiration, and seems 
possessed with reckless fury, seizes whatever arms are at hand—his 
murucü, cutlass, or bow and arrows—and rushes to the doorway, 
where he inflicts deadly wounds on the ground or doorposts, calling 
out, “Thus would I do to such a one (naming some one against whom 
he has a grudge) were he within my reach.” In the space of ten mi- 
nutes the effects pass off, and the Indian becomes calm, but appears 
much exhausted. 
167. Ornamented Hammock (called Magueira in Brazil, Chinchorro 
in Venezuela) ; made at Tomo, on the Guainia (Upper Rio Negro). The 
body of the hammock is made from the fronds of Astrocaryum vulgare 
(called Tuciim in Brazil; Cuméri in Venezuela). The borders are an- 
open network made from the fronds of Mauritia vinifera (called Murité 
in Brazil; Moríche in Venezuela); the white feathers with which they 
are ornamented are those of the royal heron, the black of the curassow, 
and the rest are of parrots, macaws, humming-birds, etc. ; the cords 
are of Tucúm. 
168. Portion of stem and leaves of a species of Schnella, from fo- 
rests on the Rio Uaupés. All the twining Bauhiniæe have similar com- 
pressed sinuated stems, sometimes exceeding a foot in breadth, and 
ascending to the tops of the highest trees. From their singular con- 
formation, the Indians call them Jabotim-mitd-mité, i. e. * Land-turtle's 
ladder." " 
169. Musical instruments used by Indians on the Rio Uaupós. They 
are made of the slender branches of a tall Bamboo which seems an- 
ciently to have been planted near all the Indian settlements. The : = 
“ reeds ” are used also throughout the Guainia, Casiquiare, and Orinoco, — — 
where they are called “ Carízo." The peculiar dance in which they are - 3 
used bears the same name, which means simply “ bamboo. 
170. Indian “bellows,” made of strips of the leafstalk of Sein. 
from the Rio Uaupés. 
171. A pair of drumsticks, used throughout the Uaupés for beating 
the big drum (called in Lingoa Geral Turucéna, but by the Tariana 
