44 WANDERINGS IN SOUTH AMERICA 



living' in the midst of woods, bore evident marks 

 of attention to their persons. Their hair was 

 neatly collected, and tied up in a knot; their 

 bodies fancifully painted red, and the paint was 

 scented with hayawa. This gave them a gay and 

 animated appearance. Some of them had on neck- 

 laces, composed of the teeth of wild boars slain 

 in the chase ; many wore rings, and others had an 

 ornament on the left arm, midway betwixt the 

 shoulder and the elbow. At the close of day 

 they regularly bathed in the river below ; and the 

 next morning seemed busy in renewing the faded 

 colours of their faces. 



One day there came into the hut a form which 

 literally might be called the wild man of the 

 woods. On entering, he laid down a ball of wax, 

 which he had collected in the forest. His ham- 

 mock was all ragged and torn; and his bow, 

 though of good wood, was without any ornament 

 or polish; ''erubuit domino, cultior esse suo." 

 His face was meagre, his looks forbidding, and his 

 whole appearance neglected. His long black hair 

 hung from his head in matted confusion ; nor had 

 his body, to all appearance, ever been painted. 

 They gave him some Cassava bread and boiled 

 fish, which he ate voraciously, and soon after left 

 the hut. As he went out you could observe no 

 traces in his countenance or demeanor, which 

 indicated that he was in the least mindful of hav- 

 ing been benefited by the society he was just 

 leaving. 



The Indians said that he had neither wife, nor 

 child, nor friend. They had often tried to per- 

 suade him to come and live amongst them; but it 



