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FACING PAGE 



Snake-birds and cormorants 120 



Mixed flocks of scores of cormorants and darters covered certain trees, 

 both at sunset and after sunrise. 



Group — ^The great ant-eater. South American tapir 134 



Colonel Roosevelt and Colonel Rondon with bush deer 138 



We hung the buck in a tree. 



The return from a day's hunt 142 



Tapir, white-lipped peccary, and bush deer. 



Kermit Roosevelt 152 



Two pranchas being pulled by launch with our baggage and provisions . 160 

 The prancha was towed at the end of a hawser and her crew poled. 



Colonel Roosevelt and Colonel Rondon looking over the vast landscape . 174 



The ground was sandy, covered with grass and with a sparse growth of 

 stunted, twisted trees, never more than a few feet high. 



The Salto Bello Falls 188 



There is a sheer drop of forty or fifty yards, and a breadth perhaps three 

 times as great. 



Group — One woman was making a hammock. The mothers carried the 

 child slung against their side or hip, seated in a cloth belt, or sling, 

 which went over the opposite shoulder of the mother 192 



Group — The game of headball played by Parecis Indians at Utiarity 



Falls 194 



The kick-off: a player runs forward, throws himself flat on the ground, 

 and butts the ball toward the opposite side. Often it will be sent 

 to and fro a dozen times, from head to head until finally it rises. 



The Falls of Utiarity ... 196 



I doubt whether, excepting, of course, Niagara, there is a waterfall in 

 North America which outranks this if both volume and beauty are 

 considered. 



Group — ^A lonely grave by the wayside. The Parecis dance 198 



The dance of the Parecis Indians 200 



A number carried pipes through which they blew a kind of deep stifled 

 whistle in time to the dancing. 



Group — Tres Burity. The kitchen under the ox-hide at Campos Novos . 208 



At the Juruena we met a party of Nhambiquaras, very friendly and so- 

 ciable, and very glad to see Colonel Rondon 216 



