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stranded on their coasts. They call them tamons, i. e., slaves. They 
make them serve them in everything with as much obedience, readi- 
ness, and respect as the most civilized people could do” (RO, 494). 
777. It has sometimes happened that tribes hitherto at war have 
been anxious to sue for friendship, and one or two incomplete ac- 
counts have been handed down as to the procedure by which peace 
under such circumstances has been concluded. Thus, on the Orinoco, 
as soon as the preliminaries were arranged, the parties confirmed it, 
after their barbarous fashion, by interchanging as many blows with 
a cudgel as amounted to complete satisfaction. [Each member of 
tribe A receives a blow for each member of tribe B that he has killed, 
and vice versa, no canceling. Thus each side gets full satisfaction.— 
W. E. R.] (G, 1, 317). In Cayenne, the method of concluding a 
truce, which he states is very rarely seen, is thus described by Bar- 
rére: The interested party goes into the enemy’s country. Usually 
it is the captain, with the chief men and all the youths, who march 
in battle array, well equipped with bows, arrows, clubs, stone hatch- 
ets, and other implements of battle. When at one or two short days’ 
journey from the karbet [meeting house] they depute some of their 
number to go and inform them that they wish to be friends and to 
live henceforth on good terms with them. If the offer be well 
received, they tell those who have halted to come along. The two 
nations then range themselves in order of battle, just is if they 
wanted to fight. They sling abuses and reproaches at each other for 
all the outrages committed. “ You stole our women,” says one; “ you 
killed and ate my father, cousin, brother,” etc., cries another... . 
Finally, after all these animated speeches, they suddenly throw their 
arms to the ground with loud manifestations of joy and then pro- 
ceed to the karbet, where they drink for three or four days (PBA, 
174). 
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