SOUTH AMERICA. j^g 

 ci-devant Dutch Guiana, commonly known by the name Third 



JOUKNKY. 



of WaroAV, Arowack, Acoway, Carib, and Macoushi, 



Principal 



They Uve in small hamlets, which consist of a few huts, nations, or 



tribes of 



never exceeding twelve in number. These huts are Indians, 

 always in the forest, near a river or some creek. They 

 are open on all sides, (except those of the Macoushi,) 

 and covered with a species of palm leaf. 



Their principal furniture is the hammock. It serves Their ham- 

 them both for chair and bed. It is commonly made of " 

 cotton ; though those of the Warows are formed from the 

 ^ta tree. At night they always make a fire close to it. 

 The heat keeps them warm, and the smoke drives away 

 the Mosquitos and sand-fiies. You sometimes find a 

 table in the hut ; but it was not made by the Indians, but 

 by some negro, or mulatto carpenter. 



They cut down about an acre or two of the trees which Occupations 

 surround the huts, and there plant pepper, Papaws, 

 sweet and bitter Cassava, plantains, sweet potatoes, yams, 

 pineapples, and silk-grass. Besides these, they generally 

 have a few acres in some fertile part of the forest for their 

 Cassava, which is as bread to them. They make earthen 

 pots to boil their provisions in ; and they get from the 

 white men flat circular plates of iron, on which they bake 

 their Cassava. Tliey have to grate the Cassava before 

 it is pressed, preparatory to baking ; and those Indians 

 who are too far in the wilds to procure graters from the 

 white men, make use of a flat piece of wood, studded ^ 



