. The Andes and the Amazon :|bor across the continent of South America. fferent in words, these languages have the same gram-matical construction. In more than one respect the poly-glot American is antipodal to the Chinese. The languageof the former is richest in words, that of the latter thepoorest. The preposition follows the noun, and the verbends the sentence. Ancient Tupi is the basis of the Lin-goa Geral, the inter-tribal tongue on the Middle semi-civilized Ticunas, Mundurucus, etc., have onecostume—the men in trowsers and white cotton shirts, thewomen in calico petticoats, wi
. The Andes and the Amazon :|bor across the continent of South America. fferent in words, these languages have the same gram-matical construction. In more than one respect the poly-glot American is antipodal to the Chinese. The languageof the former is richest in words, that of the latter thepoorest. The preposition follows the noun, and the verbends the sentence. Ancient Tupi is the basis of the Lin-goa Geral, the inter-tribal tongue on the Middle semi-civilized Ticunas, Mundurucus, etc., have onecostume—the men in trowsers and white cotton shirts, thewomen in calico petticoats, with short, loose chemises, andtheir hair held in a knot on the top of the head by a comb, usually of foreign make,but sometimes made ofbamboo splinters. Thewild tribes north andsouth go nearly or quitenude, while those on theAvestern tributaries wearcotton or bark togas orponchos. The habita-tions are generally aframe-work of poles, thatched with palm-leaves; the wallssometimes latticed and plastered with mud, and the furni-ture chiefly hammocks and earthen Native Comb. * Authors compute in South America from 280 to 700 languages (AbbeRoyo said 2000), of which four fifths are composed of idioms radically dis-tinct. 318 The Andes and the Aisiazon. The Miindurucus are the most numerous and warliketribe in Amazonia. They inhabit both banks of the Ta-pajos, and can muster, it is said, 2000 fighting men. Theyare friendly to the whites, and industrious, selling to trad-ers large quantities of farina, sarsaparilla, rubber, andtonka beans. Their houses are conical or quadrangularhuts, sometimes open sheds, and generally contain manyfamilies. According to Wallace, the Mundurucus are theonly perfectly tattooed nation in South America. It takesat least ten years to complete the tattooing of the wholeperson. The skin is pricked with spines, and then the sootfrom burning pitch rubbed in. Their neighbors, thePararauates, are intractable, wandering savages, roamingthrough the fores
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