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WANDERINGS IN 



First The iiiside is prettily done in basket-work, with wood not 



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unHke bamboo, and the outside has a coat of wax. The 



cover is all of one piece, formed out of the skin of the 

 Tapir. Round the centre there is fastened a loop, large 

 enough to admit the arm and shoulder, from which it 

 hangs when used. To the rim is tied a little bunch of 

 silk grass, and half of the jaw-bone of the fish called Pirai, 

 with which the Indian scrapes the point of his arrow. 



Before he puts the arrows into the quiver, he links them 

 together by two strings of cotton, one string at each end, 

 and then folds them round a stick, which is nearly the 

 length of the quiver. The end of the stick, which is 

 uppermost, is guarded by two little pieces of wood cross- 

 wise, with a hoop round their extremities, which appears 

 something like a wheel ; and this saves the hand from 

 being wounded when the quiver is reversed, in order to 

 let the bunch of arrows drop out. 



There is also attached to the quiver a little kind of 

 basket, to hold the wild cotton which is put on the blunt 

 end of the arrow. With a quiver of poisoned arrows 

 slung over his shoulder, and with his blow-pipe in his 

 hand, in the same position as a soldier carries his musket, 

 see the Macoushi Indian advancing towards the forest 

 in quest of Powises, Maroudis, Waracabas, and other 

 feathered game. 



The Indian Tlicsc generally sit high up in the tall and tufted trees, 



in pursuit of . t t i c i • i i 



his game, but Still are not out of the Indian s reach ; for his blow- 



