CONTENTS. X1 
CHAPTER VII. 
SOCIAL LIFE, APPEARANCE, AND LANGUAGE OF THE 
CARIBS. 
Happy Children. — Cleanliness. — Primitive Innocence. —A 
Modest Maiden. — Dress. — Face and Figure. — Flattening 
the Forehead. — Ugly Men and Women. — Carib Hospital- 
ity. — The Basket-Weaver. — Tropic Noontide. — Religion. 
— The Dying Woman. — A Lost Skeleton. — Burial of the 
Dead. — The Wake. — St. Vincent Caribs. — Two Dialects. 
—The Arowaks. —An Agreeable Tongue. — Vocabulary. 
— Caliban a Carib, and Crusoe’s Man Friday. — Cru- 
soe’s Island. — Black Caribs. — Weapons and Utensils of 
Stone. — ‘* Thunderbolts.” — Carib Sculpture. — A Sacri- 
ficial Stone. —— Whence came They ? — Their Northern 
Limit. —A Southern Origin. —Their Lost Arts. —A Dying 
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CHAPTER VIII. 
HOW I CAPTURED THE IMPERIAL PARROT. 
Meyong. — My Hut. — A Mixed-up Language. — Departure 
for the Forest. — Pannier and Cutlass. — Wood-Pigeons. — 
The Startled Savages. —The Bath. — A Gloomy Gorge. — 
‘‘Palmiste Montagne.”—-In the Haunts of the Parrot. — 
Immense Trees. — Parasites and Lianes. — Wood for Canoes 
and Gum for Incense. — The ‘‘ Bois Diable.” — Construct- 
ing the Camp.— Palm-Spathes. — A Bonne Bouche, the 
Beetle Grub. — Nocturnal Noises. — Comical Frogs. — A 
Blacksmith in a Tree. — The First Shot. — The Humming- 
Bird’s Nest. — The Parrot. — An Excited Guide. — An Acci- 
dent. — Wild Hogs.— The ‘Little Devil”. - . + + + 112 
CHAPTER IX. 
A DAY IN THE DEEP WOODS. 
The Bee-Tree. — Enveloped in Plants.— Ascending the Giant 
Tree. — Smoking Out the Bees. —Vegetable Ropes. — Honey 
ad libitum. — A Bite. — A Howl. — The Bee-Eaters. — Carib 
