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An Indian village 



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- 98 



We passed an Indian fishing village on the edge of the river, with 

 huts, scaffoldings for drying the fish, hammocks, and rude tables. 



Group — Wood ibis. South American jabiru. Sariema 104 



Group — A jabiru's nest. A troupisd nest - - - H* 



Snake-birds and cormorants - - 118 



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 - 130 



Colonel Roosevelt and Colonel Rondon with bush deer 134 



We hung the buck in a tree. 



The return from a day's hunt - 138 



Tapir, white-lipped peccary, and bush deer. 



Kermit Roosevelt 144 



Two pranchas being pulled by launch with our baggage and 



provisions - 154 



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



Colonel Roosevelt and Colonel Rondon looking over the vast 



landscape - - 168 



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 182 



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 - . I84, 



Group — The game of headball played by Parecis Indians at 



Utiarity Falls - - . . . jgg 



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

 ground, and butts the baU 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 . jgg 



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

 in North America which outranks this, if both volume and 

 beauty are considered. 



