18 WANDERINGS IN 



JOURNEY. 



FIRST The Indians who frequented this habitation, 



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though 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 necklaces, 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 

 hammock 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 de- 

 meanour, which indicated that he was in the 



