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Indian Antipathy to Ke&roes. 
but extends all over America. With a trifling modulation of the voice 
they sing about all their deeds in war and in the chase, and at times give 
way to an almost inexhaustible flow of sarcastic humour and biting satire 
to whicli it would seem Indians are unfortunatelv inclined. The bciiinnino; 
and end of all their performances always consist of a deafening general 
outroar, like dogs' barking, by which the spirits who rejoice in others' 
misfortunes, are driven out of the neighbourhood. 
otiS. Although we spent several days among these happy mountain 
folk, we could not quite allay the shyness of the women and children, but 
we already seemed to have found more favour in their eyes than our 
tw o negroes, with wldch their unpleasant odour in addition to their black 
colour nniy have had a good deal to do. if either of them unexpectedly 
turned up in the presence of the women or girls, they would certainly 
hold their noses, and, as soon as he turned his back on them, spit several 
times. Young birds twitter just as the old ones sing: when the boys saw 
the black Hgiires, even at a distance, they also started to spit. The great- 
est pleasure we could give the men, and the biggest fright the women, 
was t(» Are our snudl mortar, the loud explosion of which would be echoed 
a thousand times over on the neighlxniring mountains. When the 
woiueu saw us complying with' the entreaties of the men, and about to 
load the gun, we could rest assured that with ears closed and the cry of 
''Okai Arakabusa. okai Arakabusa (Big (Uin),*' they would run away and 
set the whole cam]) iu an upi'oar. A really laughable confusion took place 
when we, of a morning, Avhile the women Avere busy painting their 
husbands' and sons' toilet required for the performance in the evening, 
w ould fire the tliunderbolt out of pure devilry. It was a characteristic 
and stirring life that we led here, and from which some interesting side- 
light was daily gleaned : for instance I was deeply moved every time Avhen 
some newcomers would arrive and this or that one recognise among the 
Paranaghieri an old friend of his, my brother, and, hurrying with a 
hearty handshake, express his unfeigned joy to his friends and relations 
in the most spirited expressions of speech and action. 
3()0. As on previous similar occasions, I also saw here scars from 
wounds, that made one's heart ache: they must have got these in battle 
01* else in the chase when at inconveniently close quarters with some beast 
of ])rey. Thus, there was a Wapisiana chief Avho had accompanied my 
brother for some considerable time on his former journey who had lost 
the (mtire calf of his right leg. and whose foot was also a bit askew. The 
strong ]>owerful fellow, while fishing in the Znruma some little while 
previously, had been caught on the leg by a kaiman, but, by not losing his 
presence of mind, struck the huge brute so soundly on the head and tail 
with the club that he happened to have at hand, as to make it let go at 
the expense of his calf, though not before it had bitten the bone through. 
His companions who had fled in terror at the time, hurried l»ack, quick 
enough no doubt, to save the unconscious fellow from l)eing drowned. 
Without any trained assistance, the break and the wound were so far 
healed as to permit of his making the i-day trip to Torong-Yauwise. also 
to see the Paranaghieris. From A\ hat we were told, the number of Indian 
lives lost annually by kaimaus must be fairly considerable, for they also 
