Appendix 



Natives of the Amazon Region 



Alfred Russell Wallace, in his Travels on the Ama'zon 

 (1853), speaks most warmly about the aborigines of that 

 district — both as to their grace of form, their quickness 

 of hand, and their goodnatured inoffensive disposition. 

 He says (chap, xvii) : " Their figures are generally superb ; 

 and I have never felt so much pleasure in gazing at the finest 

 statue as at these living illustrations of the human form." 

 In his My Life^ vol. ii, p. 288, he says : " Their whole 

 aspect and manner were different (from the semi-civilised 

 tribes) ; they walked with the free step of the independent 

 forest-dweller . . original and self-sustaining as the wild 

 animals of the forest . . . living their own lives in their 

 own way, as they had done for countless generations before 

 America was discovered. The true denizen of the Ama- 

 zonian forests, like the forest itself, is unique and not to 

 be forgotten." 



From The Putumayoj or DeviPs Paradise. By W. E. 

 Hardenburg (19 12), 



" The Huitotos are a well-formed race, and although 

 small, are stout and strong, with a broad chest and a promi- 

 nent bust ; but their limbs, especially the lower, are but 

 little developed. . . . That repugnant sight, a protruding 

 abdomen, so common among the ' whites ' and half-breeds 

 on the Amazon, is very rare among these aborigines. . . . 

 Notwithstanding some defects it is not rare to find among 

 these women many who are really beautiful — so magnifi- 

 cent are their figures, and so free and graceful their move- 

 ments." (p. 152). 



*' Unions are considered binding among the Huitotos, 

 and it is very rarely that serious disagreements arise between 



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