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for its beauty and intellect. The Acoways wear scarcely 

 any clothing, and indeed, when no white men are near, do 

 not trouble themselves about clothes at all. They wear their 

 coarse black hair very long, and are accustomed to cany a 

 piece of wood in the cartilage of the nose 



REAL AND IDEAL. 



The Caribs are also nude, and wear ornaments in their 

 under lips. Lastly, come the Macoushies, who are the best 

 wourali makers, and sell it to other tribes. 



In the accompanying illustration I have brought together 

 three figures, in order to show the difference between the 

 European and Guianan types of the human frame. The 

 " Painter's Ideal " is copied from an imaginative drawing 

 of a young Indian girl, as depicted by a well-known artist. 

 The model is clearly of an English type, with the abundant 



