tßETTY Baku Makes Her Escape. 
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two of these huge beasts that had been Iiarpooned at a Fazenda situate 
near the Zurunia mouth. From the description supplied, they were Sea- 
<f?ows (3Ianuh(s a iiif vir(inns Cuv.) As we were taking the same route in 
a fortnight's time and tlie Berlin Museum jxisscssed none of these inter- 
esting .animaLs, the inrornu\tion was naturally all the more welcome. 
273. Two days after Mr. Weiburg's departure for J^ao Joaquim the big 
military l)oats arrived and eTerybody stro\(' to freight them as quickly 
as possible with the goods already packed. I also took the opi>ortunity of 
again sending a portioii of my collections under the supervision of our 
friends to iNFr. Each, so that he might forward them on to Berlin. 
274. A few days before the return of the transports, the young Indian 
girl Barn — who, as the reader will remember, accompanied us with her 
future husband the Macusi Aiyukante, <n\ our trip to the Takutu, and 
had already shown an almost unconqueralde antipathy to him, — rushed 
into our house Avith the most patent signs of fear and excitement, and 
weeping bitterly, beseeched us to free her fi'om the persecutions of her 
hated bridegroom and alloAv her to travel with our l»oats to Waraputa 
Avhere she wanted to ])ut herself under Mr. Youd's protection, yhe could 
not become the wife of the hateful felloAV and, when she told him of her 
fixed determination, he had threatened, in case of refusal, to put her to 
death, a fate she would not escape as soon as the soldiers were withdrawn 
and we had left for Roraima. Barn was undoubtedly the prettiest Macusi 
girl in Pirara : the attentions that had been paid her not only by the 
ofiicers, but also by ourselves, and the evident favour in which she 
regarded one of the members of our expedition had so played upon Aiyu- 
kante's jealousy, now increased to deliberate vengeance through her 
indifference and antipathy, that he forgot uU about ordinary precautions 
and had told others Avhat he proposed doing. My brother was in a dilem- 
ma, for according to Indian concepts, Baru was Aiyukante's property 
because he had already bought her as a girl, to take her for his second 
wife after she reached maturity, and everything was to be feared from 
his revenge. This fact decided him, as far as it lay in his poAver, to pre- 
vent such a disastrous result. Still crying and with voice trembling, 
Baru assured us that she had so far informed no one of her intended 
escape to Waraputa, and with the greatest tension the poor girl was now 
depending upon my brother who, to her inexpressible joy, after thinking 
the matter over a while, allowed her to go. To defy Aiyukante openly, 
would be but to hasten his vengeance — it could only be prevented by craft. 
Aiyukante must lie kept away from Pirara until such time as Baru had 
got off on our boats. He had already for a long time past regarded Soro- 
reng with envious eyes because the latter had not only been hired to 
accompany us to the Takutu and the more distant settlements, but had 
now again been given the job of engaging men for us. More men, however, 
were still wanted and accordingly on the following morning my brother 
asked Aiyukante whether he could procure some. He promised to do so 
gladly, and by afternoon had left the village to get his promised pay as 
soon as possible. On his return Baru had already left Pirara two days 
before. Lashed with all the fury of unbridled passion, more like a raging 
