THE VAMPIRE INDIANS 
vampire. Those Indians are great fighters, and are in a 
constant state of hostility with all their neighbours. They 
are good hunters and fishermen. Their weapons are well 
made, and consist of bow and arrows, spears and war- 
clubs. The Callisecas and Carapaches are very light in 
colour, with a yellowish skin, not darker than that of 
the average Spaniard. They are fine-looking people, 
fairly hairy on the face and body. The men grow long 
beards. Men and women generally go about naked, but 
some of the Indians near the river have adopted long 
shawls in which they wrap themselves. After marriage 
the women wear a loin-cloth, but nothing at all before 
marriage. The girls when young are attractive, with 
luminous, expressive, dark brown eyes. These Cashibos 
are supposed to be the “ white race ” of the Amazon. 
They are nevertheless not white at all, but belong to a 
yellow race, although they are, as I have said, of a light 
yellow colour. Many yellow races have come under my 
observation in the islands of the Pacific Ocean, who were 
just as light as the Cashibos, such as the Bilans and 
Manobos, and some who were even whiter than they are, 
such as the Mansakas of the Mindanao Island. The 
Cashibos are wild people, and the settlers in the neigh¬ 
bourhood are much afraid of them. 
On January thirteenth, when we were three days out 
from Masisea, we were travelling between high, rocky 
hills with almost vertical sides. Their section showed in 
the lower portion narrow bands of violet-coloured rock 
and white light stone in a horizontal stratum. Above that 
had accumulated a deep layer from thirty to one hundred 
feet thick of red earth. 
We went across a dangerous whirlpool. The launch 
had hardly enough strength to pull through at full speed. 
The water all around us formed great circles with deep 
central hollows, and, as we went through, rose before us 
like a wall. It had quite an impressive effect. That par- 
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