. The world's inhabitants; or, Mankind, animals, and plants; being a popular account of the races and nations of mankind, past and present, and the animals and plants inhabiting the great continents and principal islands. llows, heavily laden, and often carry- ,ing a child on her hip. The blow-gun is a very prevalent weapon amongthese and many other Indian tribes. A number of these tribes are semi-Christianised, eat salt, and are comparatively peaceable; but there stilllive on the upper Napo, many tribes known as Infidels. The formerare known as Indians, and are descended from a people once fo
. The world's inhabitants; or, Mankind, animals, and plants; being a popular account of the races and nations of mankind, past and present, and the animals and plants inhabiting the great continents and principal islands. llows, heavily laden, and often carry- ,ing a child on her hip. The blow-gun is a very prevalent weapon amongthese and many other Indian tribes. A number of these tribes are semi-Christianised, eat salt, and are comparatively peaceable; but there stilllive on the upper Napo, many tribes known as Infidels. The formerare known as Indians, and are descended from a people once formingpart of the Inca nation. These people wear short cotton drav/ers (men) or cotton clothwrapped round from the loins to the knee, with a short jacket or shirt(women), with many ornaments. Their blow-guns are made differentlyfrom those of the Guiana Indians, in two similar halves, of a hard speciesof palm, and joined lengthwise with wax and fibre. Their bore is almostas true and perfect as that of a gun-barrel. Burial takes place in thehouses ; and the men are usually buried in their own canoes, or a sufficientlength cut from them, dressed in their best, and with supplies of food. THE SOUTH AMERICAN INDIANS. 819. UMAHUAS, BRAZIL. It is only witli great difficulty thatthese Indians have been persuaded tosettle in permanent villages, and manyof them readily take to roaming again,or have resorts and sheds in the voyages are undertaken downthe river Napo, and up the Amazon, tothe salt mines of Chasuta on the riverHuallaga, and to the upper Amazon forpoison. These journeys are extremelyfatiguing, lasting several months, andbeing largely made against strong cur-rents. Of the so-called Infidels, who do not eat salt, and have very many different languages, many are httle *=?. Ill n ^*^® Zaparos. known. The Zaparos (the name meanmg a covered basket of wicker work in two layers with waterproof leaves between) are some ofthe most expert spearmen and hunters known, detecti
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