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regardless of their liking, that is when alluding to the entire Amazon country. 
Beebe, however, (p. 481) reports that native Indian tribes (Guiana) do not like it; 
Whitney (p. 25) says that the Brazilians “look upon scaleless fishes such as it is with 
aversion, claiming that the flesh conduces to a fever,” (untrue in each of the three 
clauses). Gibbon states that pirarucv was, at the time of his visit in the 1850's, 
a 
Fic. 39. Continued. The veneering process. Each strip taken out in the pre- 
ceding figure is skillfully cut into a thin sheet for drying. 
entirely new to the Cuyabds of the Madeira. Nash rightly says (p. 80) “‘its flesh 
is to the inhabitants of the Amazon what beef is to central and southern Brazil.” 
I have many times seen the inhabitants of the Peruvian Amazons making prepara- 
tions for a journey, or stopped for a chat with them while on a journey. Without 
exception somewhere about the canoe a roll of paiche was to be seen, together with 
a stewpan for cooking it, and either a bunch of green plantains, a bag of rice, or a 
bag of beans. 
