. The lower Amazon; a narrative of explorations in the little known regions of the state of Pará, on the lower Amazon . ge tree trunk which lies onthe ground and is being fashioned into a men are cutting away at it with their axes,while at various points some are using fire as anexcavator. The dugout is almost finished. Thewomen carry their babies and at the same timehold large baskets of farina for the men to eatfrom when they please. Long bush ropes are cut and fastened to thegunwale of this heavy craft which measures thirty-five feet in length and five feet in width. Rollersare cu
. The lower Amazon; a narrative of explorations in the little known regions of the state of Pará, on the lower Amazon . ge tree trunk which lies onthe ground and is being fashioned into a men are cutting away at it with their axes,while at various points some are using fire as anexcavator. The dugout is almost finished. Thewomen carry their babies and at the same timehold large baskets of farina for the men to eatfrom when they please. Long bush ropes are cut and fastened to thegunwale of this heavy craft which measures thirty-five feet in length and five feet in width. Rollersare cut from tree trunks, and the forest is beingcleared in a direct line to the creek for an earlylaunching. It will not be an easy task to transport DISCOVERING THE TRIBAL NAME 245 this ygara to the water as the road leads over twohills and through dense and comphcated , as always by a few Indians w^ho neverfor a moment let me get out of sight, I go back tothe maloca at noon to eat my scanty lunch, com-posed of roast turtle, grape-nuts, and condensedmilk with water. CHAPTER XIII Success ^ritK tKe Camera. NE of the young fellows, whose skillwith the bow and arrows I havemarvelled at on various occasions,walks past me with a small gourd,inside of which something is smiles at me and speaks some words, which,judging from his expression, must be of call him over to my hammock and ask him toshow me the contents of his carefully coveredgourd, whereupon he loosens the fibre that keepsa leaf snugly fitted over the aperture and raisesthe leaf a fraction of an inch. A large, black antwith enormous mandibles creeps out and flops tothe ground in front of me. The gourd is full ofthem. The man ties the leaf firmly on again and,with a stick, crushes the insect which is the name of it, the largest of the antspecies. I remember once while travelling on theJavary River, a tributary of the Upper Amazon,how one of these ants bit my leg. The pain a
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