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kindly, primitive people, in geographical and zoological re>earch. ex- 

 ploration, and hunting. 



The general scarcity of mammal life along these faniiai> rivers was 

 stirprising. So man_\- ruhher gatherers live here that the countrv has, 



I'"'- 7?^- — I'ordcr marker lietwcoii Brazil ami X'ciKzurla. u illi )4()vcni- 

 ment officials of Ijotli cuuiUric-'. riit>t(>!;ra|)li !>> l.a \ arrc. 



in fact, been hunted out. and the natives lhem>el\e^ are often hard 

 pressed for fo<jd. Pacas and peccaries were plentiful, .and numi)ers 

 were shot for u>.e in tlie camp, 'iapir tracks were cro>.>>ed several 

 times, and small deer were occasionalK killed hv the natives. 



