Isles of spice and palm . e 223 ISLES OF SPICE AND PALM conventions of civilization—and in villages ofwattled huts he dwells as wild and primitive asif the shriek of the locomotive whistle neverbroke the silence of the great forest or theput-put of a motor boat never echoed fromthe jungle-covered river banks. But if thebush negro has reverted to African savageryin life, customs and dress, yet he has acquiredmany arts and handicrafts and is far frombeing as black as one might reasonably expectfrom the color of his skin. He is fairly tem-perate, a good worker, a marvelously skillfulboatman and a
Isles of spice and palm . e 223 ISLES OF SPICE AND PALM conventions of civilization—and in villages ofwattled huts he dwells as wild and primitive asif the shriek of the locomotive whistle neverbroke the silence of the great forest or theput-put of a motor boat never echoed fromthe jungle-covered river banks. But if thebush negro has reverted to African savageryin life, customs and dress, yet he has acquiredmany arts and handicrafts and is far frombeing as black as one might reasonably expectfrom the color of his skin. He is fairly tem-perate, a good worker, a marvelously skillfulboatman and a master of hunting and him the planters and pioneers of theinterior largely depend, and in many ways heis far superior to his native red Indianneighbors. To see either the bush negroes or the Indiansin their own homes one must travel far up theriver by boat or into the interior by train—ajourney well worth while, for the scenery,dense tropical jungle, wild beasts and birdsand wilder people to be seen. 224. Javanese in Flowered Silk Clothes. Paramaribo
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