small quantity of the substance employed in the trade with Angostura. 
The greatest part comes from the mararo or caragna, which is an amy- 
ris. It is remarkable enough that the name mani, which Aublet heard 
among the Galibis [Caribs] of Cayenne, was again heard by us at 
Javita, three hundred leagues distant from French Guiana. The Mo- 
ronobea or Symphonia of Javita yields a yellow resin; the caragna, a 
resin strongly odoriferous and white as snow; the latter becomes yel- 
low where it is adherent to the internal part of the old bark. 
At the hamlet of Pimichin, near Javita, Humboldt 
spent the night at a pitch-gatherers’ camp (loc. cit. 368) 
and was able personally to see evidence of this forest in- 
dustry: 
We passed the night in a hut lately abandoned by an Indian fam- 
ily... A great store of mani (a mixture of the resin of the Moronobea 
and the Amyris Carata) was accumulated around the house. This is 
used by the Indians here, as at Cayenne, to pitch their canoes and 
fix the bony spine of the ray at the points of their arrows. 
The Kubeo and Desano Indians along the Rio Vaupés 
and its Colombian afHuents gather quantities of the pitch 
from Moronobea coccinea (which seems to be much more 
abundant from Mitu downstream than in the headwaters 
of the river) for making huge torches for the lighting of 
their large communal houses during tribal dances. Com- 
pact lumps of the dried, blackened pitch are heated and 
applied to the tops of small posts driven into the earthen 
floor. When ignited, the pitch gives off a surprisingly 
bright light. The Tanimukas and Yukunas sometimes 
employ the pitch of this species in the manufacture of 
dancing-masks, but the preferred resin for this purpose 
is that from Symphonia. 
Cotompia: Comisaria del Amazonas, Trapecio Amazénico, interior 
regions of trapecio between Amazon and Putumayo watersheds. Alt. 
above 100 m. November 1946, George A. Black & Richard Evans Schultes 
46-369,—Comisaria del Vaupés, Rio Vaupés, Mitt and vicinity. Alt. 
about 250 m. ““Columnar tree, 14 feet in diameter. Height 90 feet. 
Crown sparse, all at top. Bark thick, soft, roughish, brown outside, 
sandy inside. Latex abundant, yellow. Wood yellowish white. Flow- 
ers rose-red, Tukano = woo-hd-pee-ka-ne; Taiwano= go-hé.’’? Septem- 
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