226 We Dance foe, the Benefit of the Indians. 
pletely changed to burlesque in savage man. Had the vain coxcomb' 
finally completed his careful body-painting, which must have been 
washed off and renewed ten times before meeting with his approval; 
had he, after many a fruitless attempt, girded his loins inl the approved 
folds of drapery Avith tho long piece of blue clotli (salempore) that he 
had probably obtained in barter; had he tlirown the ends over his 
shoulders like once upon a time the proud Eoman wore his toga; and 
had he then leant upon the shoulders of his second Ego, another young 
Inflian ; the one with a flute under his arm, the other with it in his 
mouth — he would verily have l)een able to pose as model for Apollo before 
the most critical artist. In spite of this, his affected and unnatural 
conduct proved an inexiiaustilde source of amusement for us. The two 
friends actually seemed to have grown up together, the one being always 
the shadow of the other. r>otli were awnre of tlie superiority they 
displayed among their fellow villagers, because a thin moustache 
adorned the upper lip of the latter inflividual. Vanity anion;? the 
Oaralvitta residents seems to be held in iust as bad credit as with us. 
for Castor and Pollux, as we called these two dandies, were treated with 
open contempt by everybody. 
501. The complaisant friendliness of our hosts had quickly estab- 
lished the most intimat« relations: the few days' stay amongst them 
were enlivened with joke and jest and when they had showed us all their 
dances, and had given exhibitions of their games, they asked us to let 
them see the dances of the Parana ghieris. Waltzes and galops must 
have seemed peculiar because these made their sides split with laughter, 
and on enquiring the reason, it was jsimply this: that they were mad 
'(nv!^i)}iiirir) and fatignintr dances. The quadrille on the other hand 
met with the most irpueral approl»ation and the more methodically th>i 
steps were executed the greater was the applause. 
502. On the morning of 8th Decendier^ with a salvo from every gun 
available, we left friendly Carakitta, accompanied by the old chief and 
his pretty daughter — sickness preventing his wife from coming — • 
together with a number of other villagers : we crossed the Carabo on the 
thickly hemmed-in l)anks of which I found a new tree-like Inga in bloom, 
and then climbed Mt. Kinotaima, the slope of which was covered with 
exquisite Thihaiidirie, Teruströmiac, etc. We followed the crest for 
several hours over a tableland, only here and there interrupted by 
insignificant hills, which consisted of the most flourishing forest oases 
wherein were yet gathered, besides the genera above mentioned, different 
species of Anonn and hitherto unknown Melostornnrear. We then 
neared the south-eastern slope of Kinotaima, when the sandstone-range 
of the Humirida with its wall-like declivities emerged ahead of us in 
N.E. and the lovely valley of the ]\fuyang lay at our feet. The summit 
of Kinotaima rises about 2,000 feet aboA'e the latter, and 3,000 feet above 
sea-level. Still again I turned my gaze, and yet once more my looks 
lingered on the beautiful foliage of those families of plants, to take 
farewell of proud Eriniitipu, of Mareppa-Emba in the West, of TJcaraima 
in the South-West, and now to greet mth heavy heart the bleak granitic 
mass of Mairari lying in front of me in the distant South-East. We 
