. The adventures of a tropical tramp. interior tribes, butlive merely on yacca root or such game and fish asthey can obtain vnth their spears and they practice only among them-selves, killing and eating the aged members of thetribe, whom they prepare for the table by wrap-ping in banana leaves and roasting in the ashes. In vain we scanned the jungle-grown banks ofthe river to see them. We were now on thePachitea River, swelled by new tributaries untilit was two or three hundred yards wide in places,but the tangle of cane, palms, and big treesdraped with vines, was still the
. The adventures of a tropical tramp. interior tribes, butlive merely on yacca root or such game and fish asthey can obtain vnth their spears and they practice only among them-selves, killing and eating the aged members of thetribe, whom they prepare for the table by wrap-ping in banana leaves and roasting in the ashes. In vain we scanned the jungle-grown banks ofthe river to see them. We were now on thePachitea River, swelled by new tributaries untilit was two or three hundred yards wide in places,but the tangle of cane, palms, and big treesdraped with vines, was still the same. They never come down to the river, ex-plained Eivera. Their costume makes them toopopular with the mosquitos. The word mosquito, as used in this country,refers to a little gnat, extremely numerous andtroublesome on the Pachitea. The same thingin Brazil is known as the pium fly. It leaveslittle red blood-spots where it bites, which turnblack in a few hours and resemble remain on the skin for a week or more, and. w si ^ ^ O o ^ « ^M 1—t r a. /^ as o ^ E-« —^ ps
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