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and still more in character. The Partamonas are large, 
strongly built people, ugly in body and in features, and 
dirty in habits. The Macoosis, smaller, more slightly 
built men, with limbs of curiously beautiful form and 
wonderful agility, with unusually good features, cleanly 
in habit, most hospitable, obliging and generous, are by 
far the pleasantest of all the Indians of Guiana. Lastly 
the Arekoonas, people of large strong bodies and gener- 
ally of ugly features, are physically the most powerful of 
all, and are of great good temper, but as companions 
of the traveller are objectionable on account of their 
extreme greediness of disposition ; among all the many 
of their number whom I employed I never succeeded 
in satisfying one by the payment I gave, whereas I do 
not remember ever leaving a Macoosi unsatisfied. 
Early on the morning of the 28th of November we 
said goodbye with regret to Lonk and our other Macoosi 
friends at Konkarmo, and started with our new, Arekoona, 
companions toward Roraima. The path-foot led us, 
winding much, but always over the open savannah, to 
the Ireng river, which we crossed, at the customary 
Indian ferry, in three very long, narrow and cranky 
dug-out boats which we found there. After another 
stretch of savannah, distinguished from a botanical point 
of view by the first appearance of a dwarf and very 
graceful bamboo which afterward became a very common 
and characteristic plant along our path, we wound for 
a long distance through a light wood the underbush of 
which consisted entirely of a beautiful scarlet-flowered 
shrubby Justicia, then in full and picture-like bloom. 
Next came another stretch of savannah ; then, most 
wearisome of all, an Indian cassava field ; and at last 
