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would be a wait of several days while the re- 
mainder of the expedition caught up, Mr. 
Cherrie and I went along to devote to collect- 
ing the time thus gained. Doctor Zahm and 
Mr. Sigg accompanied us. We started 
two days beyond Aldeia Queimada, from a 
point called Rio Mandioca. There were three 
trucks, great well-built machines of German 
make [Saurer], laden to their fullest capacity 
with the heaviest and most cumbersome 
pieces of the baggage. It wasa strange sight 
to see them racing across the uninhabited 
chapaddo, at a speed of thirty miles an hour, 
and frequently through blinding rain and 
deep mud. One of the cars had a full-blooded 
Indian mechanician who seemed to be fully 
initiated into the mysteries of handling an 
automobile, from gathering up branches and 
Parecis Indians playing head-ball— The men show wonderful dexterity in striking with their heads 
the hollow rubber sphere a foot in diameter which they manufacture for the game. 
this game is played by no other tribe of Indians 
So far as is known 
Native Parecis Indians returning from the field.— These semi-civilized Indians raise large crops of 
mandioca, corn and sweet potatoes and make clothing, hammocks and various articles for ornamental 
purposes 
