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thick, nose straight or slightly Roman, forehead 
lowish, rather receding, and with the bump of 
locality universally strikingly developed. Their 
hair is cut off straight just over the eyes, and 
allowed to hang down long behind, usually reach- 
ing the middle of the back. They streak their 
faces daily with anatto, and sometimes pour the 
juice of jagua over their bodies, but this is not done 
(as by the inhabitants of Tarapoto) to hide spotted 
skins, as they are quite free from caracha. 
The characteristic dress is a sort of poncho called 
a cueshma, which is a long narrow rectangular piece 
of cloth (coarse cotton, the manufacture of Anito or 
Tarapoto) with a slit in the middle through which 
the head is passed ; as it is narrow it covers the 
body before and behind to below the knees, but not 
at the sides, so that the arms are free. The legs 
are encased in^breeches of the same material, tight, 
but not fastened at the knees. ... A few of them 
who have been down to the Amazon wear shirt and 
trousers. The women are none of them pretty, 
though there are some countenances not unpleasing. 
They cut their hair like the men, and as the latter 
are of slender make the two sexes can scarcely be 
distinguished at a distance. Generally a pollena 
constituted the article of dress of the women, the 
body from the waist upwards being naked, but they 
hang a profusion of beads (white, red, and blue) 
round their necks, and sometimes use armJets of 
the same. . . . 
The forests on the opposite side of the river 
abound in animals, and those who go in search of 
the tapir rarely fail in killing one. Don Ignacio 
and I paid two men — to one three yards of English 
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