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while rouge, which recalls to mind the savage 

 state of man, disappears by degrees in Europe, 

 (in some towns of the province of Peru) the 

 ladies think they embellish their delicate and 

 white skins, by covering them with colouring 

 vegetable matter, starch, whites of eggs, and 

 flour. After having lived a long time among 

 men painted with anotta and chica, we are sin- 

 gularly struck with these remains of ancient 

 barbarism, retained amid all the usages of civil- 

 ization. 



The encampment at Pararuma afforded us an 

 opportunity of examining for the first time seve- 

 ral animals alive, which till then we had seen 

 only in the collections of Europe. These little 

 animals form a branch of commerce for the mis- 

 sionaries. They exchange tobacco, the resin 

 called mani, the pigment of chica, gallitos (rock 

 manakins), orange monkeys, capuchin monkeys, 

 and other species of monkeys in great request on 

 the coast, for cloth, nails, hatchets, fish-hooks, 

 and pins. The productions of the Oroonoko 

 are bought at a low price of the Indians, who 

 live in dependence on the monks ; and these 

 same Indians purchase of the monks at a very 

 high price, and with the money they have gained 

 at the harvest of eggs, fishing and gardening- 

 implements. We made the acquisition of several 

 animals, which we kept with us throughout the 

 rest of our voyage on the river, and studied their 



