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means of a kind of glue called guayca, which re- 
sembles the best made from animal substances, and 
is found between the bark and alburnum of the 
Combretum guayca, a kind of creeping plant. 
On the third day they arrived at the missions of 
Cari. Some showers had recently revived the vege- 
tation. A thick turf was formed of small grasses and 
herbaceous sensitive plants, while a few fan-palms, 
rhopalas, and malphighias, rose at great distances 
from each other. The humid spots were distin- 
guishable by groups of mauritias, which were loaded 
with enormous clusters of red fruit. The plain 
undulated from the effect of mirage, the heat was 
excessive, and the travellers found temporary relief 
under the shade of the trees, which had, however, 
attracted numerous birds and insects. 
On the 13th July they arrived at the village of 
Cari, where, as usual, they lodged with the clergy- 
man, who could scarcely comprehend how natives of 
the north of Europe should have arrived at his dwell- 
ing from the frontiers of Brazil. They found more 
than 500 Caribs in the hamlet, and saw many more 
at the surrounding missions. ‘They were of large 
stature, from five feet nine inches to six feet two. 
The men had the lower part of the body wrapped 
in a piece of dark-blue cloth, while the women had 
merely a narrow band. This race differs from the 
other Indians, not only in being taller, but also in 
the greater regularity of their features, in having 
the nose less flattened, and the cheekbones less pro- 
minent. The hair of the head is partially shaven, 
only a circular tuft being left on the top,—a custom 
that might be supposed to have been borrowed from 
the monks, but which is equally prevalent among 
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