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IN HUMBOLDT'S COUNTRY 
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Rio Negro. He seemed very good-natured, but 
much less intelligent than the Barres, etc., and 
when those around me laughed at the words of his 
language (of which I wrote 
down as many as I could get 
from him), he laughed more 
heartily than any. 
Monagas, with six others, 
were gathering nuts of Juvia 
on a river which seems to be 
the Manaviche, and had gone 
very far up when they came 
upon a cleared space in the 
forest which constituted a 
pueblo of the Guaharibos. 
The houses were annular, the 
low roof sloping slightly out- 
wards and being only two or 
three varas in width, while 
the whole of the centre was open to the sky. The 
roof and outer wall were made of the long, broad, 
simple leaf of a palm, apparently like the Bussii 
of Para. Under the roof were slung the ham- 
mocks of several families. Several broad, clean 
paths led from the houses into the forest. In one 
house were two young men with three young 
women. One of the men fled, but Monagas and 
his companions captured the rest. After binding 
the captives, they were attacked by a party of 
returning Guaharibos, but escaped in the dense 
forest after killing one of them, and got safely back 
to their boats. . . . All three women died a few 
years afterwards of scarlatina. 
According to Kude-Kubiii, there are several 
Fig. 35. — KuDE-KuBUi, a 
Guaharibo Indian (50 years 
old). 
