PAINTED BODIES OE THE INDIANS. 
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^ked me n appear to be dressed iu laced clothes. If painted 
'ations had been examined with the same attention as 
. 1Q se who are clothed, it w r ould have been perceived that 
i i0 most fertile imagination, and the most mutable caprice, 
ai e created the fashions of painting, as well as those ol 
garments. 
v Minting and tattooing are not restrained, in either the 
^ ew or the Old World, to one race or one zone only. These 
laments are most common among the Malays and Ame- 
^ raees > fnit ^ le time of the Itomans they were also 
®Ptoyed by the white race in the north of Europe. As the 
in°Hi picturesque garments and modes of dress are found 
be 6 9‘ reciau Archipelago and western Asia, so the type of 
® painting and tattooing is displayed by the islanders 
th ' . . e ^ c - Some clothed nations still paint them hands, 
is *fi na ^ s ’ au d their faces. It would seem that painting 
U[ , tl0u confined to those parts of the body that remain 
Sav 0vere( l; and while rouge, which recalls to mind the 
in age state man > i s disappearing by degrees in Europe, 
th e S ° me to ?' ns of the province of Peru the ladies think 
embellish their delicate skins by covering them with 
Aft Un f g , ve g e t a We matter, starch, white-of-egg, and flour. 
Hjj having lived a long time among men painted with 
n]..- 0 ai id chica, we are singularly struck with these re- 
0 f‘ "l 18 . °t ancient barbarism retained amidst all the usages 
“Ration. b 
of g e Pcampment at Pararuma afforded us an opportunity 
% ti amiuill o several animals in their natural state, which, 
-fhes v We seen 01ll y in tlie collections of Europe. 
lni Sa - e . e an imals form a branch of commerce for the 
th e ‘° Uui ' les - They exchange tobacco, the resin called mani, 
key s l g,llent ,°f chica, f/allitos (rock-manakins), orange mon- 
grel Ca Puchin monkeys, and other species of monkeys in 
k°ok s on tlle coast, for cloth, nails, hatchets, fish- 
af a j’ auci Pms. The productions of the Orinoco are bought 
th e m W Price from the Indians, who live iu dependence on 
h'ai'ip >, an d these same Indians purchase fishing and 
Price 'mplements from the monks at a very high 
W t ’ lta file money they have gained at the egg-harvest. 
V 0L r8e I v es bought several animals, which we kept with 
