WANDERINGS IN 



Siparouni to the right hand, and on the third day 

 come to a little hill. The Indians have cleared 

 about an acre of ground on it, and erected a 

 temporary shed. If it be not intended for pro- 

 vision ground alone, perhaps the next white man 

 who travels through these remote wilds will find 

 an Indian settlement here. 



Two days after leaving this, you get to a rising 

 ground on the western bank, where stands a 

 single hut ; and about half a mile in the forest 

 there are a few more ; some of them square, and 

 some round, with spiral roots. 



Here the fish called Pacou is very plentiful : it 

 is perhaps the fattest and most delicious fish in 

 Guiana. It does not take the hook, but the 

 Indians decoy it to the surface of the water by 

 means of the seeds of the crabwood tree, and 

 then shoot it with an arrow. 



Macoushi You are now within the borders of Macoushia, 

 inhabited by a different tribe of people, called 

 Macoushi Indians ; uncommonly dexterous in the 

 use of the blow-pipe, and famous for their skill 

 in preparing the deadly vegetable poison, com- 

 monly called Wourali. 



It is from this country that those beautiful 

 paroquets, named Kessi-kessi, are procured. Here 

 the crystal mountains are found ; and here the 

 three different species of the ara are seen in 

 great abundance. Here, too, grows the tree from 

 which the gum-elastic is got: it is large, and 



