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ON THE ABORIGINES 
in their disposition than the UanpeSj by whom they are 
much feared. They bury their dead in their houses, and 
mourn for them a long time, but make no feast on the 
* occasion. The Isanna Indians are said not to be nearly 
so numerous, nor to increase so rapidly, as the Uaupes ; 
which may perhaps be owing to their marrying with 
relations, while the former prefer strangers. 
The Arekamas make war against other tribes, to ob- 
tain prisoners for food, like the Cobeus. In their su- 
perstitions and religious ideas they much resemble the 
Uaupes. 
The Macus are one of the lowest and most uncivilized 
tribes of Indians in the Amazon district. They inhabit 
the forests and serras about the rivers Marie, Curicuriari, 
and Urubaxi, and live a wandering life, having no houses 
and no fixed place of abode, and of course no clothing ; 
they have little or no iron, and use the tusks of the wild 
pig to scrape and form their bows and arrows, and they 
make a most deadly kind of poison to anoint them. At 
night they sleep on a bundle of palm-leaves, or stick up 
a few leaves to make a shed if it rains, or sometimes, 
with “ sipos,'’ construct a rude hammock, which however 
serves only once. They eat all kinds of birds and fish, 
roasted or boiled in palm-spathes ; and all sorts of wild 
fruits. 
The Macus often attack the houses of other Indians 
situated in solitary places, and murder all the inhabi- 
tants ; and they have even depopulated and caused the 
removal of several villages. All the other tribes of In- 
dians catch them and keep them as slaves, and in most 
villages you will see some of them. They are distinguish- 
