1052 The American Naturalist. [December, 
feet of slack to a sawyer in the river, just in front of our camp, 
and I had a good opportunity to watch him. He was terribly 
vicious, and would spring at anything that approached, making a 
hoarse, barking noise, which could be heard to some distance, 
and is a genuine voice. The next day we were visited by two 
savages of the Mangianes, as they were called by the Spanish and 
Christian Indians. They were much the same in color and gen- 
eral appearance as the Christianized races, but were smaller and 
dirtier. The man had a handkerchief tied about him for an 
apron; but the woman, who was entirely naked to her waist, wore 
a curious petticoat, made up of a long, narrow ribbon of braided 
rattan, which was wound round and round her hips, until it took 
the form of a petticoat, and was held in place by a band of bark 
cloth, passing between the legs and fastened to the waist. They 
were both barefooted, and the woman was armed with a wood 
knife and the man with rude bow and arrows. We had just 
killed the crocodile, and were taking the flesh from the bones to 
make a skeleton, and they carefully gathered the meat from the 
sand and stored it away, as also such pieces of old Juan’s jerked 
beef as he considered past hope. This they threw on the fire for 
a few moments, and then went' about chewing it with evident 
enjoyment. They have the reputation of eating snakes among 
the other Indians. They begged tobacco and salt of us, and 
promised to bring us wild fruit and honey. Their village was too 
far away for us to visit. The day after they came again, bring- 
ing a basket of the red fruit before mentioned, and a great piece 
of honey-comb filled with „honey. It was made by the big 
bees (Apis striata), which suspend their combs under horizontal 
limbs. On the seventh day of our stay Mateo killed a young 
bull ¢amarou; and after skinning it and cleaning the bones for 
another skeleton, as it continued to rain and the river was rap- 
idly rising, we concluded to return. The next morning our 
canoe was loaded with the heavy skins and skeletons and the 
rest of our baggage, and when we got in with our guns the 
edge of the boat was within less than an inch of the water, A 
box containing most of Juan’s ‘apa was taken out to lighten us a 
little, and we started in the rain, and, without stopping, we hur- 




