The young proprietor held a year-old daughter in one arm as he and Zacharias chatted in Portuguese across the counter. The man's wife peered timidly from a corner. In another corner, a dark-red hen tried to warm some eggs while flapping her wings as if urging us to leave. They took one look at our motley landing party and began to bawl. Even so, Zacharias characterized a typical life on the Amazon as quite happy.
People do farming and fishing and sometimes hunting.
Only for food, not for the market. They kill big animals only when they have the salt to preserve it. Otherwise, after two weeks, the meat has too strong a taste. Normally, they will catch some small animals and small fish for lunch and dinner. They go to sleep at night when it's dark and wake up when it's daylight.