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roiuul llic suiaU-po-x piitieiil rl(>s<'(l and llie entraiiee stopped up with 
paliii-leave.s ; the sick man had sticcuiu hcd to the scouru'i' aii<l w ith the 
exception ol' a lew wiiom we toniid engaged in pvepaiini; OaLavcni ])aiHt, 
the inhabitants had left the yillage. Ajnongst the aborigines of 
Guiana it is exclusively the Wapisianas, Tarumas and Macusis who en- 
gage in the manufacture of this ])igm('nt from out of the leaves of 
Bi(j)ionia .chica : it has already found its way to Xoi'tli America, where it 
is used for colouring cotton red and yellow, and for adulterating coch- 
ineal. Tlie leaves of the beautiful cveeper are somewhat dried in the 
sliade beforehand and then thrown into a large trough or pot full of 
water, wliere it l)ecomes completely fermented by the second or third 
day, as a consequence of whicli the rod colouring material at the same 
time settles down as a fine powder. When this process is completed, 
the sediment is washed until such time as all the foreign particles are 
removed, when it is exposed in Üw sun to dry and then packed in little 
boxes made of palm-leaves. Tlie Indian uses this fine coloui'ing matter 
only as a faeepaint for AAliich purpose it is mixed with sweetly- 
perfnmed resin. 
T,")."». We could not do any business witli the monkey because the 
owner wanted a gun for it. When I let him gee my surprise at l»eing 
asked this enormous amount he explained that the whole settlement 
wanted a gun because the only one they possessed was useless, llad they 
by chance wanted a couple of fish-hooks, T would have obtained the 
object of my rlesires at that price. 
750. At midday on the 24th we reached Aripai settlement, wliere tlie 
villai'ers bouglit us such a lot of pine-apples that we could hnv > 
freighted a corial with them when the young Portuguese woman at the 
same time asked us to take lier to AYaranuta. There being alreadv 
several Portuguese from Fort ?2no .Toaquim livinrr there, she' wanted to 
CO and jfiin them, because in Aripai she did not fee] any too' safe. Wo 
readilv acceded to her wishes and with her goodsl and chattels, consist- 
inc of two worn-out Tvlue di-esses, f'.1<e was soon in our coi-ial. 
7.57. As on coming up the river T had noticed at Curua several young 
seedliuQs of the glorious AttaJra s^prriofid tsect. fi67) T landed here 1o 
plant them in a box and take them Avith me to Berlin. The same thing 
that had happened with my ant-bear took place with the kainiau that T 
had left behind here, close liv: T found a well-prepared skeleton, but 
some of the vertebrae were missintr. On the followincr mrtrning we were 
alreadv headinir into the mouth of the Awaricuru which, in consequence 
of its vifte of level and in connection with the Quatata, presented a grand 
v^-aterwnv to the immediate neiobbourhoed of Pirara. Rwift as an 
orrow we shot down hetween the banks of the Pupununi with the result 
that whereas ten days were required to go up the stream, it took us four 
to pAmr« dowr». 
7,5S. At Pirara, which we reached towards evening, we found every- 
thing just as it used to be. Levingston was likewise still there, trying 
to rake in, by fair means or foul, every bit of money that was to be 
found among the Indians, so as to bring at least some salvage frcm tlie 
shipwreck of his speculative hopes ]>aek to Geoi'getown. As a mattet" 
