CANTON DEL RIO NEGRO 477 
nor have they always kept together, as on the 
Uaupes we find sections of the same nation in- 
habiting distant spots, and often mixed up with 
offshoots of some other nation. Probably the 
individuals of any nation were more united before 
the proximity of the white man compelled them to 
abandon their intestine w^ars. 
The nomadic tribes seem to know no othef 
limits to their movements than the meeting with 
white or red enemies. Such are the Maciis, who 
roam over the forests between the Rio Negro and 
the Japura, ascending to the Uaupes, and some- 
times, I am assured, descending nearly to the 
Barra. Rarely they are seen on the opposite side 
of the river. The Guaharibos, who inhabit on the 
Alto Orinoco above the Raudal de los Guaharibos, 
rarely descending below it ; and the Guahibos on 
the Meta and Calcanapara. All these tribes are 
ignorant of the construction of canoes, and, when 
they have to cross a stream which is not fordable, 
make use of rafts. Their food is chiefly fruits, 
eaten raw. 
On the Pataua Palm called Uaruma by the Barre Indians, 
AND BY Spanish Settlers Seje, which is a general 
Name for all Palms whose Fruit is used for mixing 
with Jueuta 
{Extract from Journal) 
There are two species at San Carlos. One, which is the same as 
the Barra QEnocarpus, whose beard is used for arrows of blowing- 
canes (called here Sarabatana), a tail, noble species with large 
oblong fruit ; the other (which I have not seen) has much smaller 
subovate fruit (not globose as in Bacaba), and the drink prepared 
from it has a distinct reddish tinge almost like that of the Bacaba ; 
