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people and kind/ and it is then put under an inverted pot 
or in some other dark and secluded place, and is there left 
without food or care for a day or two. If it survives this 
treatment, it is taken out and it is then generally docile 
and ready to eat the food given to it. Monkeys, 
especially marmozets {Midas rujimamis), are sometimes 
caught in a much more simple way. If a number of them 
are seen by an Indian feeding on a small isolated tree, 
he shakes the trunk violently until one or two of the 
animals are thrown to the ground. The Indians there- 
upon chase and run down the fallen ones, and seize and 
hold them, though often at the cost of a severe bite or 
two. Even old animals caught in this way become com- 
paratively tame in three or four days. 
It is the duty of the Indian women to feed the live 
stock belonging to the settlement. At intervals during 
the day they bring out many quakes, or baskets, from 
which they release crying and half-fledged birds or young 
animals. These are fed with cassava bread chewed by 
the women. Among some tribes, especially the Warraus, 
the women suckle the young mammals as they would 
their own children. Sometimes the birds are so young 
that it seems almost impossible that they can be reared 
by hand. Sometimes, especially in the case of parrots, 
the feathers do not seem to grow so soon under these 
unnatural circumstances as they would in nature. A 
nearly full-grown parrot may sometimes be seen without 
a feather or even a piece of down on its body, and in this 
state is as odd-looking a fowl as can well be seen. But it 
is very seldom that the women fail to rear the young 
stock. Even humming birds, taken a few days after they 
