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bloody massacre lasted until the end of the third night, 
in compliance with the supposed command of MAKU-: 
NAIMA, and nearly four hundred persons including children’ 
fell vi€tims of their most horrible superstition and the 
mad ambition of asavage. Then, the gay drinking bouts 
were Over, and the survivors hid themselves in their huts 
to wait for the fulfilment of AWACAIPU’S promise. 
A fortnight passed and the day fixed for the resurrec- 
tion arrived—the time of the full moon-—the day when 
the Indians would be put on a level with the whites— 
the day for the celebration of their great triumph. Im- 
mediately after sunset they began to look eagerly, and 
waited—waited through the long night—but. never 
saw a single white Indian come down from Roraima to 
Beckeranta. In the morning, with downcast looks, the 
Indians assembled, and proceeded to the house of AWA- 
CAIPU, who quieted them by stating that the Great 
Spirit had ordered him to say that within five days they 
would be sure to see their murdered relatives rise and 
come to them as white people; the transformation had 
only been retarded a little. But, many of them had 
lost all confidence in him and a strong party had been 
formed who believed no more in his communications, 
for which they had many good reasons. In the first; 
place he had forcibly and against their wish taken several 
fine young girls from their lovers, and put them in his 
harem, and then the assembled crowd began to be tor- 
mented by a very powerful enemy, hunger. Such a 
large body of people living here for over a month had 
necessarily consumed a large quantity of food, and beside 
that had used up much cassava in preparing drink, And 
this cassava is the only vegetable the Indian cultivates in. 
