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is open and undulating, with clumps of tree several acres 
in extent here and there ; and where the grass had not 
been burnt off it was over six feet high and excellent as 
pasture. The many Venezuelan houses scattered here 
and there on the savannah were very similar in structure 
and material to those of Indians, but that some were 
partly enclosed, the rough doors and windows being of raw 
deer-skins. The people who inhabit these houses seem 
to be of the same class as the squatters on our own 
rivers, and are of mixed Indian and Spanish blood. I saw 
neither white men nor negroes, though one or two had 
mulatto hair. They live like Indians, by cultivating cas- 
sava and plantains, or by grazing a few cattle or mining 
for gold at Caratal and in the neighbourhood. They use 
donkeys to carry their cassava and firewood from their 
fields to their houses. The Accawoi Indians work with 
these Venezuelans, and are paid wages up to 27 dollars 
per month ; but they say they are often beaten by their 
masters without redress. The Caribs will not work in 
this way ; but I was told that during the revolutions they 
take wages to fight for either or both factions, there being 
an understanding among them that they are not to injure 
their own countrymen if possible, but to kill the opposing 
Venezuelans. From the Caribs I learned that a number 
of Spaniards had come down the Urawan in canoes taken 
from the Indians, and had taken away the guns of the 
men living above Arraouta ; they had also dug up and 
taken away the cassava. From the appearance of the 
fields, the robbery appeared to have been committed 
about three months previously. At Koratoka the cassava 
had also been stolen, but not to such an extent as at 
