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230 ENCAMPMENT OF INDIANS. | 
the whole body; but there prevails in general as 
great a diversity in the mode of staining as is found 
in Europe in respect to dress ; and at Pararuma the 
travellers saw some Indians painted with a blue 
jacket and black buttons. Women advanced in years 
are fonder of being thus ornamented than the younger 
ladies ; and so expensive is this mode of decoration, 
that an industrious man can hardly gain enough 
by the labour of a fortnight to adorn himself with 
chica, of which the missionaries make an article of 
» traffic. After all, the paintings that cost so much 
are liable to be effaced by a heavy shower ; although 
the caruto long resists the action of water, as the 
travellers found by disagreeable experience; for hav- 
ing one day in sport marked their faces with spots 
and strokes of it, it was not entirely removed till 
after a long period. It has been supposed that this 
usage prevents the Indians from being stung by in- 
sects ; but this was found to be incorrect. The pre- 
ference given by the American tribes to the red co- 
lour, Humboldt supposes to be owing to the tendency 
which nations feel to attribute the idea of beauty to 
whatever characterizes their national complexion. 
The encampment of Pararuma also afforded the 
travellers an opportunity of examining several ani- 
mals they had not before seen alive, and which 
the Indians brought to exchange with the mission- 
aries for fish-hooks and other necessaries. Among 
these specimens were gallitoes, or rock-manakins, 
monkeys of different species, of which the titi or 
Simia sciurea seems to have been a special favourite 
with Humboldt. He mentions a very interesting 
fact illustrative of the sagacity of this creature. One 
which he had purchased of the natives distinguish- 
