Up the Mazaruni for diamonds . re taken. Hence his argumentthat the game was bexed and kept out ofsight. No get um. Must catch beena, he said,earnestly. A beena is some sort of a riteor charm that the hunters go through in orderto give them good fortune or luck or whateverit is they most desire. There is a differentsort of beena for each thing. I gave him ahalf day holiday to catch beena. Beingespecially anxious to bag deer he was going tocatch deer beena. The sly fellow had hid-den away somewhere, just for this emergency,the nose of a deer. Beena may bring good luck but I wouldnot care for go
Up the Mazaruni for diamonds . re taken. Hence his argumentthat the game was bexed and kept out ofsight. No get um. Must catch beena, he said,earnestly. A beena is some sort of a riteor charm that the hunters go through in orderto give them good fortune or luck or whateverit is they most desire. There is a differentsort of beena for each thing. I gave him ahalf day holiday to catch beena. Beingespecially anxious to bag deer he was going tocatch deer beena. The sly fellow had hid-den away somewhere, just for this emergency,the nose of a deer. Beena may bring good luck but I wouldnot care for good luck earned in that chap heated the nose of the deer on ashovel over coals until it fairly sizzled. Thenhe cut slashes, not deep, but enough to drawblood, on his chest, arms and legs and rubbedthat hot, greasy nose into the cuts. He be-lieved that the fat thus entering his body orblood would enable him to get all the deer hewished, as it would give him power over them. That afternoon he went out, and, sure [ii8]. HWAh O CO w H < FOR DIAMONDS enough, he returned with a big deer. I didnot dare photograph it for fear the Indianwould become frightened or discouraged, andleave. No power on earth could persuadehim that it was due to any other reason thanhis beena that he got the deer. As I explained, I took many pictures butlost the greater part of them through at-tempting to develop the films in the hot cli-mate. Birds of unusual variety, to me, werephotographed in plenty. The toucans wereinteresting birds. They would come quiteclose to us, and I managed to get a snapshotof one not more than ten feet away, just ashe was apparently sharpening his giganticbeak on the shore gravel. I found the Indians to be not only interest-ing but very likable chaps. I formed a strongfriendship and they likewise became veryfriendly with me. I learned much of theirlanguage, had them at our logie for guests ona great many occasions and, after a manner,got so that I could talk well wit
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