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forced its way through the rugged rocky boulders and cliffs. Farther 
up a real labyrinth of thickly forested islands spread a green coverlet, 
streaked with silver bands, over the whole river bed. Surrounding the 
house itself was a flourishing- fruit)- and kitchen-garden where, together 
with European plants which under this foreign sky reached a perfection 
unknown in the homeland, the indigenous pine-apple reached such a truly 
immense size that, unable to support the huge golden fruit, the weak 
stalk had to be supported. The bird-spider ( My gale Blondii and M. 
avicularia), a creature of repulsive appearance, had chosen the pine- 
apple leaves for its quarters and on almost every plant one recognised the 
small muslin-like thick web with its hateful occupant: I doubt whether 
the spider really devours humming-birds, because in this robber’s castle 
I never found a trace, not a feather of one. 
731. Mr. Youd’s community consisted of Caribs, Macusis, Para* 
vilhanos and some Brazilian soldiers and Vaqueiros (cattlemen) from 
the Rio Branco who had settled here. The delightfully inviting appear- 
ance of the houses, the exemplary order and cleanliness that reigned 
over the whole village, and all the happy and contented faces of the 
converts produced an exceptionally favourable impression; deeds pro- 
claimed more loudly than words the love enjoyed by Mr. Yoiul and how 
blessed had been his influence. The larger number of the residents 
consisted of Caribs. Some Macusi families who had settled here a short 
while before, could be distinguished from these, not only by build of body 
but particularly by the absolutely different patterns with which they had 
painted their bodies : the females had paid a truly minute attention to 
their lines which were always broken up at right angles and interlaced. 
The women wore their beautifully full and shiny hair, kept clean and 
tidy, hanging a long way down over the neck and shoulders: the men 
on the contrary in most cases had it cut short. Immediately above the 
ankles and calves, as well as above the wrists and elbows, the legs and 
arms of the women and girls were wound with strings of beads a hand’s- 
width broad. 
732. Mr. Youd told us that one of the three Indians who had 
accompanied my brother to London in 1839 and spent a year there had 
come and settled here on his return. But Sororeng, a Paravilhano, had 
not let himself be seen and my brother was just about to express his 
surprise when, all of a sudden, we saw coming from out of one of the 
houses a fine adult barefooted man wearing a long overcoat buttoned all 
the way up, with his somewhat short neck tied in a high cravat, his head 
covered with a felt hat, and legs clothed in black trousers. . Dripping 
with perspiration he hastened to my brother with an expression of the 
most heart-felt joy, and hardly knew in fact whether he ought to express 
his feelings at once more seeing my brother in exactly the same way as 
the latter received him: he seized his hand, then stood in front of him, 
watched him long and attentively and then turned suddenly round, 
hurried back to one of the houses and brought out a young woman whom 
he presented to my brother as his wife. He told him that Saramang, the 
Macusi, who had also been to London, died soon after his return from 
Europe. Having again declared his intention of also coming with us on 
