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and sizes that served as water-holders; together with some simple clay 
cooking utensils and a number of square plaited baskets in which they 
store their ornaments, bits of clothing, when they are so fortunate as to 
possess any, and gew-gaws of other kinds. On the hammock there alsi 
hangs the owner’s toilette which consists of a piece of bambu filled with 
rouge-paint, a comb, and a small looking-glass; the European frame is 
generally removed from the glass and replaced by a new and more 
durable one in which this costly article of finery has less chance 
of being broken. The main beam of the house is usually decorated 
with the hunting trophies of the owner: deer-horns, jaguar 
skulls, eagle claws, etc., and together with them the war-clubs, the 
curious blow pipe and the feather hats are hung on it. The innumerable 
arrows and a number of bows lie on the cross-beams. Judging from 
the large quantity, as well as from the neatness and accuracy with which 
everything was manufactured, it was very evident that this tribe must 
be far more industrious than the coastal ones. The whole of their wooden 
implements were neatly polished and painted, their weapons ornamented 
with motley feathers, and their plaitwork so well made in respect to 
the designs worked in with red or black, likewise ä la Grec, that the best 
European professional workmanship could hardly match them for neat- 
ness, but certainly never as regards durability. That their household 
implements and their ornaments, irrespective of their utility, have a 
special value in their eyes, from an artistic point of view alone, 
can be recognised in the fact that they only saw their way to bartering 
them when they inevitably required some European article or other. 
To barter a blow-pipe was still more difficult, probably due to the reason 
that they only get these from the Arekunas and Maiongkongs in exchange 
for their frightful vegetable poison Urari on which they accordingly set 
so high a value because the plant only grows in certain spots on the 
Canuku range (Sierra Oonokon.) It is at all events striking that the 
neatness and accuracy both of weapons and implements as well as a 
livelier industrial activity in general becomes always more distinct and 
evident, the farther one penetrates from the coast into the interior.* 
Only in one manufacture — pottery ware — are the occupants of the latter 
inferior to the former. Inside the houses, at different spots, small fires 
are continually kept burning, either under a small staging covered 
with the cut-up produce of the chase so as to get it smoked, or between 
three stones upon which, like our tripods, rest large pots to boil possibly 
collie drink or bit of meat. Snarling dogs lie in close circles around these 
fires like faithful watchmen. 
80J. As our party consisted of 48 head, and we proposed staying 
several days, there developed to be sure an otherwise probably unusual 
hustle and bustle in the little village which already had received word 
of our arrival from a family that were just returning home to Haiowa 
as we landed at Waraputa. We accordingly met with an abundant supply 
* The reason is very probably due to proportionately less intimate contact with inferior 
races, i.e., the negro and low-class European. (Ed), 
