The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-06-23

vidgu with earrings mtrsavs Mr.. Baron.
Their sole ornament Is a stick passed
through the lower LIP.
zone Of the most Interesting things I
saw them "a was killing monkeys You
see 10 takes 5000 monkey teeth 10 make a
necklace. The savages move along nois-
lessly, like snakes in the grass.
and az the sight OF monkey
through the foliage they blow q tiny
poisoned arrow through q pipe at him.
Poor Mr.. Monkey is hit every time He is
dead IN three minutes. IL the air be calm
u IS dangerous to be within a hundred
yards of JlvarO armed with these minia-
lure weapons, for he can blow poisoned
arrow and kill at that distance
Poison is also used in catching fish The
Jivaro Is not bound by game laws or fish
commissioners, so ne takes large quanti-
ties of poison from the varvasco plant and
throws it into the river Then for fully
twenty miles farther down the stream,
fish are gathered in canoes from the sur
face of the water. They are only stupe-
ned by the narcotic. The Jivaro cares
nothing for sport so long as he can ret the
food, Yet you never meet him without
his lance raised and ready for his mark.
He carries IL above his shoulder, swaying
back and forth with every step he takes
Even when standing he keeps his right
moylng-always ready to strike. The
Jivaro warrior is like a sentinel in war
time. He is Taught when child that he
must be ever on the alert to defend him
self, and so you see him prodding his
lance at your face without any reason.
was going tO. shoot on my first exerience
OF this kind, but my guides explained and
smiled at my experience. l laughed, but
l laughed alone. In all my experience
with the saVageS don't remember haV-
ing heard one on them laugh.
They have no religion. They wor-
ship nothing. though they believe in
dreams. When well supplied with chica,
an Intoxicating liquor, they dream of kill
ing their enemies. Their doctors are the
actors, medicine men and fakirs of the
savages along the upper Amazon. Their
eXistance is likd the butterfly's, pleasant
and sunny at first. Free chicha and con-
quests in love affairs are among their per-
quisites. When anybody is sick the fam
lily get great quantity of chicha and call
in the doctor. He at once proceeds to de-
crease the supply of liquor. When almost
drunk he sings, dances, and goes through
a hidous gamut of lamentations. Then he
looks at his patient and sucks the effected
place industeriously, He splits out spi-
der.
Glow do you feel" he asks.
WNo BETTER
"'He sucks again, and splits out gravel
or thorn.
"The same question is repeated, and
each time the doctor brings forth a scor-
pion, or lizard, or monkeys tooth, until
the patient imagines there is some i'm
provement and says so.
''If the first patient dies the doctor is
suspected of being witch; the second
time he is declared one, and the third
time his own life is in danger, so much so
that his own brother will assist in kill
ing him, This very thing came IN
der my own observation, and it was from
one of these unfortunates that got this
dress and these ornaments. The con-
demned man gave them to me shortly be-
fore he was killed.
Nearly every museum has one of the
JivarO preserved heads They are great
curiosities. The warriors decapitate
their victims in. warfare and keep the
heads as ornaments at their girdles.
How these heads are preserved is a good
deal Of a mystry. The skull Is removed
and the skin and flesh treated with ex-
tracts from plants, which contract and
tan them. Then the hollow head is filled
with hot pebbles and dried The pebbles
are removed and a strange object the size
Of a mans hand remains"
But the dead face is horribly real.