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LIST OF THE ENGRAVINGS. 
another, serving for the night, and shaded 
■with a light roof. Immediately to the 
right is the kitchen, ■with a tartaruga 
(turtle), that most patient of all slaughtered 
animals, which, simply laid on its back, 
helplessly and noiselessly awaits the fatal 
stroke. In the foreground, the temporary 
wife of the owner, a young mestizo lady 
with raven-black hair, comfortably smokos 
her cigar, rocking herself leisurely In the 
hammock. 
Peepabatiox of tub India-bobber. 
The woi'kman, a Mojos Indian, holding 
his wooden shovel, covered with a fresh 
layer of milk, in the white smoke which 
issues out of the chimney-like pots from 
a fire of uauassu and urucury palm-nuts 
(which alone consolidates the milk in the 
proper way), sits in the midst of his 
simple utensils ; the nuts on the ground, 
the calabashes, and a goblet of bamboo 
in which he fetched the milk from the 
seringal, to pour it into the turtle-shell in 
the middle. 
Vignette; Suspended Birds’ Nests. 
These nests, of elastic fibres solidly 
interwoven, are made by the guache 
(belonging to the cassiens species), a 
black bird of the size of our starling, with 
a long yellow tail. Sometimes several 
dozens of them are seen suspended at the 
overhanging boughs on the riverside, or at 
the extreme end of the branches of tall 
palms. 'Whoever has seen a palm-crown 
waved to and fro and shaken by the wmd 
will form an idea of the comforts of such 
a lofty seat. One, verily, must be a 
guache to find the door of the swinging 
house. 
CHAPTER VI. 
Initial : Fern-tree with Bromeli,® and 
Orchids. 
The graceful fern-trees are, with the 
palms and musaeom, one of the most 
striking forms of tropical vegetation. In 
Brazil there are at least six very different 
species of this family. The orchid in the 
foreground is the sumnre (Ci/rtopmliuiii 
r/lutini/erum, Raddi), whose sticky sap is 
used by the mestizoes of the interior for 
birdlime, and the repairing of their man- 
dolines, and for other purposes. 
B.vek-Canoe op Araba Indians. 
There can be no lighter, simpler, and 
better-constructed crafts in the world than 
these bark-canoes of the Araras and Carl- 
punas. Elastic pieces of bark of a finger’s 
thickness, stiffened out in tho middle and 
lightly laced at the ends, they accommo- 
date four persons very well ; and two will 
easily carry one over the rooks of some 
rapid down to calmer water. 
Our First Meeting with the Caripuna 
Indians. 
The vegetation in tho original sketch 
was drawn from Nature. Our first sight 
of our savage friends upon our landing 
I have tried to reproduce from memory 
as faithfully as possible. 
Portrait of a young Caripuna Indian. 
The physiognomy of tho young warrior 
with the long hair and the bunch of red 
toucan feathers in the nose, may be taken 
as the type of the whole horde. 
Caripuna Indian hunting. 
Half hidden in the dark shade of thorny 
prejauba palms, his long black hair hang- 
ing like a mane over his back, he waits, 
ready to shoot his game, he it the gi’aceful 
deer, tho wild hog, or tho taph. The 
straight ropes on the right are tho ah- 
roots of the imho ; aroideai clinging high 
above in the lofty crown of a castanheira. 
