. 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. t, and probably he scatters otherspots and lines somewhere on his face. The forest Indians, including the true Caribs, build wall-less houses in clearings. They are usually square, the four posts and crossbeams Houses supporting a sloping thatch of palm-leaves, which on two opposite sides nearly touches the ground. The furniture of the THE SOUTH AMERICAN INDIANS. 8ii house in
. 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. t, and probably he scatters otherspots and lines somewhere on his face. The forest Indians, including the true Caribs, build wall-less houses in clearings. They are usually square, the four posts and crossbeams Houses supporting a sloping thatch of palm-leaves, which on two opposite sides nearly touches the ground. The furniture of the THE SOUTH AMERICAN INDIANS. 8ii house includes a huge vessel to hold paiwari—a fermented hquor madefrom cassava bread,—clay pots and vessels, gourds, baskets, and stools ;bundles of arrows, a bow, and perhaps a blowpipe, are hung up, and many-red cotton hammocks are slung from the beams. In the open savannahsthe Macusis and Arecunas, who are Caribs, and the Wapianas, build roundor oval houses, with thick walls of wattle plastered with mud, and with ahigh conical roof of palm-leaves. Often there is a separate ruder housefor the women. There are no windows, and the very narrow doorway ismuch blocked up. The floor is of mud trodden hard, The smoke from. DOMESTIC SCENE IN GUIANA. many fires has dyed the roof a deep, highly-polished black. Like theforest houses, the place is crowded with hammocks. Under each of theseare^fhe ashes of a fire ; for all Indians, whether at home or travelling,sleep][with a fire so directly under their hammocks, that the flames seemto lick the naked skins of the sleepers. When on a hunting or fishingexpedition, the Indians build a temporary shelter of palm-leaves of moreor less complex form. There is no formal system of government among these Indians. The? father is the authority in his family; and he is only controlled to a certain 8l2 THE INHABITANTS OF AMERICA. extent by fear of the peaiman, or medicine-man of the village, and theheadman,—who is usually the most successful hunter,—wh
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