Excerpt from Guiana British, Dutch, and French The difierent tribes - Their houses - Canoee - Cassava, the stae of life -pepper-pot - cultivation-woman's work and man's work - The hunter and fisherman Weapons - Cotton hammocks - Mosaic feather-work Geometrical patterns on baskets and aprons - Laps Dancing dresses - Piaimen Esoteric cults Word building Polygamy in the chiefs - Its advantages Curare - Medicines - Independent nature of the Indian -blood-feuds - Hospitality - The Akawois, the gypsies of Guiana - Thrift unknown - Famine - Piwarrie f casts - Drunken orgies-native modesty - Danger of cloth ing - Use of the Indian to the traveller - Decreasing in number near the settlements - Christian missions. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.