ewo ure Waters Axo BLack, arden MacGreagh London, Jor han Cape, Price, 26 shillings.
To be stranded with one's baggage and two companions in the tropical Sorects on the upper reaches of the river Amazon in the territory of a tribe of Indians with a blooditirsty is quite x hair-raising experience; and that is the most exciting adventure recorded in Mr. Gordon' MacCreagh's high travel-book. It was the cum of two years? arduous explorati the highlands of Bolivia and Central Brazil.
'What were we to do? We were there on their private dock, so to peak, and we couldn't ce' away. anywhere else, Wild thoughts came to ts of taking to the river and swimming. Where to—with. out equipment, guns, anything? We "were "up ngninst. hard, practical facts. It is only in Fition that men evwim long distant ces holding rifles and ammunition and matches and so forth high and dry in the air with one hand. And even if we had managed to et away with arms and ammunition, where should we have gone? for that matter—can't suddenly land somewhere in the dark out of nowhere and hew their way for two or three hundred miles through the tangle of the Brazilian jungle.
Fortunately. the explorers made friends with the bad Indians of the Piquié River and they found them "delightful." Their system moloea life is worthy of record. If Mr, MaeCreagh has not been deceive ed, moloch life is that dream of our. wildered radieals—communism, They live 20 or 30 families in a moloch, which is nothing other than a lofty empty barrack of, split palm trunks and palm-leaf, thatch, almost invariably 100 ¢6i in length, with a frontage of 80. 'To each family in the moloch is assigned an cight—or 10—foot. space along the wall, separated from the next, very often, by no more than a low rail a8 a' line of demaveation. Privacy ism. Tmown. The space acts as hammockroom for the family; that is all, Cooking is done at the comminal fireplaces between the central root supports, and not by each individual wife, but by the women who have hech told off to the job.
Division of Inbour wyitematically worked out:
Everybody is told off to such work as he may be best fitted for. Men with an aptitude for hunting aye told off to hunt, Fishermen to fish. Artisans to make canoes. or weapons, Musicians to make flutes and rattles, which take an important place in their ceremony Women attend to the housc-Reeping; to the growing of the mandiocn evop and is preparation into taiynba; and since thay earn their place in the community. by their honest labour, they are not the beasts of burden to be which ju the fate of 40 many Indian women.
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