ms, short legs, protuberant abdomens, a thin beard, and a
bold, restless expression. They pierce the lips, and wear peccari tusks
in them in time of war. The Indians on the Purus live generally on the
communal principle, and are unwarlike and indolent. The Puru-purus bury
in sandy beaches, go naked, and have one wife.

On the great northwest tributary of the Rio Negro, the Uacaiari, there
are numerous tribes, collectively known as the Uaupes. They have
permanent abodes, in shape a parallelogram, with a semicircle at one
end, and of a size to contain several families, sometimes a whole tribe.
One of them, Wallace informs us, was 115 feet long by 75 broad, and
about 30 high. The walls are bullet-proof. Partitions of palm-leaves
divide it into apartments for families, the chief occupying the
semicircular end. The men alone wear clothes and ornaments, but both
sexes paint their bodies with red, black, and yellow colors in regular
patterns. The men have a little beard, which they pull out, as also the
eyebrows, and allow the hair to grow unshorn, tying it behind with a
cord and wearing a comb; while the women cut theirs and wear no comb.
They are an agricultural people--peaceable, ingenious, apathetic,
diffident, and bashful.

The Catauishes inhabit the banks of the Teffe. They perforate the lips,
and wear rows of sticks in the holes. At the mouth of the Jurua are the
uncivilized, but tall, noble-looking Marauas. They pierce the ears and
lips, and insert sticks. They live in separate families, and have no
common chief. Above them live the treacherous Arauas.[182] On the
opposite side of the Amazon are the nearly extinct Passes and Juris, the
finest tribes in central South America. They are peaceable and
industrious, and have always been friendly to the whites. The Passes are
a slenderly-built, light-colored, dignified, superior race,
distinguished by a large square tattooed patch in the middle of the
face. The Juris tattoo in a circle round the mouth. Near by are the
Uaenambeus, or "Humming-birds," distinguished by a small blue mark on
the upper lip. Higher up the Japura is the large cannibal tribe of
Miranhas, living in isolated families; and on the Tocantins dwell the
low Caishanas, who kill their first-born children. Along the left bank
of the Amazon, from Loreto to Japura, are the scattered houses and
villages of the Tucunas. This is an extensive tribe, leading a settled
agricultural life, each horde having a chief and