SOUTH AMERICA. 
and the next morning seemed busy in renewing the 
faded colours of their faces. 
One day there came into the hut a form which 
literally might be called the wild man of the woods. 
On entering, he laid down a ball of wax which he 
had collected in the forest. His hammock was all 
ragged and torn; and his bow, though of good 
wood, was without any ornament or polish; u eru- 
buit domino, cultior esse suo.” His face was mea 
gre, his looks forbidding, and his whole appearance 
neglected. His long black hair hung from his head 
in matted confusion; nor had his body, to all ap¬ 
pearance, ever been painted. They gave him some 
cassava bread and boiled fish, which he ate vora¬ 
ciously, and soon after left the hut. As he went 
out, you could observe no traces in his countenance 
or demeanour, which indicated that he was in the 
least mindful of having been benefited by the society 
he was just leaving. 
The Indians said that he had neither wife, nor 
child, nor friend. They had often tried to persuade 
him to come and live amongst them.; but all was 
of no avail. He went roving on, plundering the 
wild bees of their honey, and picking up the fallen 
nuts and fruits of the forest. When he fell in with 
game, he procured fire from two sticks, and cooked 
it on the spot. When a hut happened to be in his 
way, he stepped in, and asked for something to eat, 
and then months elapsed ere they saw him again. 
They did not know what had caused him to be thus 
unsettled; he had been so for years; nor did they 
