e midst of
woods, bore evident marks of attention to their persons. Their hair was
neatly collected, and tied up in a knot; their bodies fancifully painted
red, and the paint was scented with hayawa. This gave them a gay and
animated appearance. Some of them had on necklaces, composed of the
teeth of wild boars slain in the chase; many wore rings, and others had
an ornament on the left arm, midway betwixt the shoulder and the elbow.
At the close of day they regularly bathed in the river below; and the
next morning seemed busy in renewing the faded colours of their faces.

One day there came into the hut a form which literally might be called
the wild man of the woods. On entering, he laid down a ball of wax,
which he had collected in the forest. His hammock was all ragged and
torn; and his bow, though of good wood, was without any ornament or
polish; "erubuit domino, cultior esse suo." His face was meagre, his
looks forbidding, and his whole appearance neglected. His long black
hair hung from his head in matted confusion; nor had his body to all
appearance ever been painted. They gave him some cassava bread and
boiled fish, which he ate voraciously, and soon after left the hut. As
he went out you could observe no traces in his countenance or demeanour
which indicated that he was in the least mindful of having been benefited
by the society he was just leaving.

The Indians said that he had neither wife, nor child, nor friend. They
had often tried to persuade him to come and live amongst them; but all
was of no avail. He went roving on, plundering the wild bees of their
honey, and picking up the fallen nuts and fruits of the forest. When he
fell in with game, he procured fire from two sticks, and cooked it on the
spot. When a hut happened to be in his way, he stepped in and asked for
something to eat, and then months elapsed ere they saw him again. They
did not know what had caused him to be thus unsettled; he had been so for
years; nor did they believe that even old age itself would change the
habits of this poor, harmless, solitary wanderer.

From Simon's, the traveller may reach the large fall with ease in four
days.

The first falls that he meets are merely rapids, scarce a stone appearing
above the water in the rainy season; and those in the bed of the river
barely high enough to arrest the water's course, and by causing a
bubbling, show that they are there.

With this small change of appearance in