RoTH] ANIMAL FOOD 175 
that they are fooled into believing that the day has dawned. So 
with the labba, both opinions are current. On the upper Demerara 
at every little timber grant or Indian camp is to be seen the regular 
bull’s-eye lantern of the -London “bobby.” These lanterns or 
“shoolers” are imported and soldexpressly for labba hunting. Drift- 
ing noiselessly at night down the stream in a corial, with a friend 
guiding the paddle, the huntsman, with gun in one hand, flashes the 
lantern in the other along the banks. When about to shoot he raises 
his gun to his shoulder, steadies it with his left hand that still holds 
the lantern, and by the help of the light shining along the barrel, 
takes aim and fires. 
Among other methods commonly practiced is that of holding 
a big drive and, circling around, shooting at close quarters. In the 
Waiwai country the Indians will thus drive the big black spider 
monkey (the couata), and on the Takutu the Wapishana will do the 
same thing with the deer (JO). So, also, on the Orinoco, when the 
Guajiva and Chiricoa reached the banks of a stream they would 
sweep the area in a semilunar evolution, and might extend it so as 
to complete a circle. In this manner they would all advance together 
toward the center, so that nothing—jaguar, deer, ete.—could escape 
when they discharged their arrows at close quarters. In order to 
facilitate the hunting, and so that the long grass should prove no 
obstacle, they took care to fire the ground, full of brambles, in close 
proximity to the stream where they proposed halting, and where the 
animals came to drink (G, 1, 255). The burning of savanna grass 
for driving deer was also practiced on the Rupununi by the Makusi 
(SR, 1, 363). 
158. Snares and traps of various descriptions are also employed to 
catch game, birds, and fish, while to bring an animal within arrow- 
shot the most common method is to imitate its call. The latter may 
be effected with the mouth alone or by blowing into a folded leaf. In 
the pairing season it is a common trick on the Barima and Kaituma 
Rivers to imitate the call of the tapir and so bring it within range of 
bow and arrow. The same is done with deer (sec. 168). 
159. Hiding shelters, watch posts, etc., in the form of more or less 
permanent inclosures fixed in the ground or upon the trees are em- 
ployed by the Taruma, Waiwai, and Parikuta. Before the advent 
of guns they were used by the Wapishana. Those built on the 
ground, usually in the neighborhood of their cassava fields, are made 
of four uprights joined by crosspieces at a height convenient for the 
hunter to shoot his arrows. Kokerit leaves, with their stalks down, 
are arched over these crosspieces toward the inside and in sufficient 
quantity to prevent anything within from being seen. Here the 
Indian will take up his place and watch for acouri and other small 
