Identifier: explorationofval00hern (find matches)
Title: Exploration of the valley of the Amazon
Year: 1853 (1850s)
Authors: Herndon, William Lewis, 1813-1857 United States. Navy Dept Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862 Mann, Horace, 1796-1859 Gibbon, Lardner
Subjects: Amazon River Valley -- Description and travel Brazil -- Description and travel Peru -- Description and travel Bolivia -- Description and travel America -- Discovery and exploration
Publisher: Washington, R. Armstrong (etc.) Public Printer
Contributing Library: Brown University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brown University

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edro milked the mother into a tin pot, for the benefit ofPilchards ear, which still troubled him. The woman evidently under-stood what was wanted with it, and stood still for Pedro to milk her asmuch as he chose. The boys are remarkable for large bellies, as thesketch of Matua and his brother Manu will show. The older onesexpress a willingness to go away from their mothers; Manu was asked,by signs, if he would go with me; he shook his head, no; when hewas made to understand that he could get a pair of trousers and some-thing to eat, he then nodded his head, yes. Pedro tells me they swellthemselves up by eating earth, which Indian children all do. One ofthe Caripunas got into the boat and examined the baggage; he soonfound a knife, which he took, and came out with it in his hand, beforeeverybody. It belonged to one of the negroes, who took it from theIndian. The savage appeared disappointed; he was then told if hewould bring yuca or other provisions for the men, he should have a knife.
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CARIPUNA SAVAGES. 295 They all declared they had nothing to eat in their houses. We madethem a little present, and bought a bow with arrows from one of theboys. They were particularly desirous of getting fish-hooks and knives. Matua is in the full dress of the men, who wear beads of hard woodround their necks, with bands bound tight round the arms above theelbow and round the ankles. The foreskin is tied up to a band of cot-ton twine, which is wound tight round the hips and under part of thebelly. All wear their hair long, and cut square ofi in front. In largeholes in their ears, they carry pieces of bone, or a stick of wood.Through the whole in the nose a quill is pushed, the cavity being filledup with different colored feathers, gives them a moustached appearance.These people are nearly all of the same height and figure, but differ verymuch in the features of the face. Some have thick lips, flat noses, andround faces; others are just the reverse. The former very ugly, and afew of th

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