Chief Henry's Scarlet Uniform. ' 369 
ing its playground under the table of an evening, would clamber up to 
us, and then, as if it liad suddenly gone mad, bound back again directly 
it saw the lighted candles standing on top of it. Its eyes shone much 
brighter in the dark than do tliose of the eat tribe. Although the 
Durukuli, like the monkeys, is fond of everytliiuü,-, its favourite food 
would seem to be little birds, a taste that it shewed at Mr. Stutchbury's 
where, already on the third night, it had taken a bird out of its cage. 
My brother only came across one specimen on his previous journey and 
this had been found by an Indian in a hollow tree. Its intolerance to 
light, as well as tlie dark hidiiig-]da('es wliere it spends the day, seems to 
nie to be the chief reason why tlu' animal is to be so extremely rarely 
seen. The fur is much thicker than that of the other monkeys, and is 
also somewhat woolly. Its geogra]>lii« al dist libution appears to extend 
over a large portion of South Amei ica. Although I offered the Arawaks 
a consideral»le price for the animal, they did not want to pai't with their 
pet: they had bartered the pretty creature from the Akawais to whom it 
had been brought by the Macusis. 
000. On the day after the j\rari(|uarri feast, wlien the participants 
were still lying sick and intoxicated in their hammocks. I left Asacota 
and continued my journey up the Barabara. The first target for my 
gun was a large Laharia snake. On cutting open the swelled body, a 
number of 3 to 4 in. long yoimg ones swarmed over me, all of them still 
possessing their yolk-sacks, and so contradicting the statement that the 
young slip out of their eggs only at the moment of birth : this at least is 
not the case with Trifionoccpluiht.'^ alro.r. 
001. After being overtaken, during the couise c.f the afternoon, by 
I wo boats with Venezuelans from the Orinoco who wanted to go to 
CeorgetoAvn, Ave reached by evening the mouth of the little forest 
stream Kuamuta. We were just steering into it to spend the night at 
Ihe settlement of the same name when we noticed some Indians in the 
village, no( far from its month: the villni>e, surrounded Avith fruit-trees, 
from which the sandflies had driven us away six weeks before (sect. Sß.")). 
I altered my plans and landed theic. Jtist as I jumped on shore the 
very first thing to cntch my eye was ;\ red nnifoi'm Hint had been spread 
out on a bench placed in front of the buildings, so tlinl it could l>e seen by 
everybody travelling over the itabbo. TTeiiry. ai)p()inied head over the 
Warraus of Kuanmta and its environs, came towards me, bade 
me welcome, and led me to Iiis temporary residence. Since the Oover- 
nor had promoted him to the chieflainsiiip of all the Warraus in this 
district, he pitched his camp now sometimes here, now some- 
times there, and just at present was living at this picturesque- 
Iv situated settlement. I had hardly stepped in the big house Avith the 
dusty olassAvare. etc.. than he fetched a much rolled-np package from 
out of a Avell^locked trunk, and on undoing the many Avrapi>ings of i>aper, 
l»ieces of calico and di'ied plantain leaves, ]uoduc-d the Governor's 
official warrant, and held it before me with a proudlv tiiumphant look. 
He had also received the uniform at the same time, and so that every 
passer-by should know who was livino- there, it was spread out on the 
bench, when not in use. jnsl like is accustomcl to fly the flag on a 
