Appendix 



Natives of the Amazon Region 



Alfred Russell Wallace, in his Travels on the Amazon 

 (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 : u 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 Putumayo^ or Devil's Paradise. By W. E 

 Hardenburg (1912). 



* 4 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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