Departure from PibaiU. 
This Substitut' Avill keep at the very most for certainly fourteen days, 
but by tlie end of that time it will have developed into a play-ground for 
innumerable maggots. The thirsty soul accordingly takes care that no 
such devolution shall take place.. 
2. But the real travelling gear consists of the beloved hammock, the 
hunting bag mostly made of jaguar skin, bow, arrows, some fish-hooks, 
the filled rouge-pot, glass and comb, the calabiish, a suiuU bundle of 
tobacco l(-av<^s and some stri}>s of tlie ])a]t('r-like bast of Lcrijilns oUaria 
Linn, in which he rolls his tobacco to smoke like a cigarette. 
3. Aiiüough We knew that w iiencver nc unuertukes a journey of 
several weeks uiuation tue Indian never leaves üis wife at home, equally 
Irum mofives ui jtalon.sy, as lor his own innate comf(^»rt, to which she has 
to minister sutiiciency in every respect, we had nevertheless maue it 
distinctly uniterstood, wlieii hiring the carriers and guides that, with the 
exception of iSororeng and Aiyukaute, a Macusi who had been with my 
brotlier on a previous journey and as a mighty i'iai was held in consider- 
able repute among the whole of the tribe, no one was to take his wife and 
children with him. Our object was not to increase our party, already 
numerous enough without these dependents. 
4. When Aiyukante, accompanied by his daughlor and JJaru, his 
second wife,-torbe, a pretty long-haired girl ten years of age who 
cherished a deep-rooted objection to her future lord and master, appeared 
in front of our house, he was nevertheless followed by some few Indians 
also with A\i\es and children, ready e(| nipped ^^■ith Ijag and baggage for 
the trip. If we really wanted to start, we would have to make the best of a 
>ad job : to call these dependents back would mean the men following 
suit. The poor creatures were loaded up not only with all their cooking 
utensils, hammocks, etc . , but also with large quantities of cassava meal, 
although it was we who had to board them on the journey— because ab- 
stinence from fresh cassava bread for longer than a couple of days is 
yet another of an Indian palate's minor sorrows. The cassava meal is 
tightly packed in spacious plaited baskets Avhich are previously lined 
7*ith palm-leaves and at every camp so much taken out as avüI suffice 
for some fresh bread for the husband, it being baked either on a stone or 
equally as well in one of their empty pots. As the master, mistress and 
children left their house, they were naturally followed by the whole crowd 
of dogs that, with their insensate barking, were already intoning a 
Jubilee hymn on the journey in store, when fortunately the wishes of 
their owners ran counter to their own, a fact of whicli they were soon to 
be convinced by many a sound thrashing and repeated showers of stones. 
5. After we had finally said good-liye to Mr. Youd, and the officers 
who had come over from the fort, our party of forty-nine persons made 
a move in Indian file, the women forming the rean-guard. The road 
through the savannah, tending to the westward, brought us after half- 
an-hour's plenty of winding to the banks of lh^ ]*irar.i Iliver, where it over- 
flowed from Lake Amucu. The former, however, was so dry that we 
could wade through it without any trouble. The pretty clusters of 
Uelicteres guazumaefoUa shrub with their scarlet-red floral decorations 
