The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1894-11-25

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A CARD WARRIOR.
duced him. His skin had q yellowish tinge
unlike the coloring of q mulatto, and yet
It was not yellow enough to be the canary
color that the Caribs were said to have.
His moderately long hair was perfectly straight,
and he had the rich dark-brown eyes of the
pure negro. His lips were pink, too. and that
was an unusual sign. The minstrel negro al
ways has flaming red lips; but II you look at
the real negroes you meet in the street or In the
West Indies or anywhere else, you will find that
their lips are nearly always black. Sometimes
they are red, but very seldom. This boy was
slender. but muscular. and more graceful In his
movements than the other. Before the voyage
was over l learned that he was the progeny Of q
mulatto father and a pure Carib mother.
after our first days visit to the pitch lake,
and after we had eaten the supper cooked by
the boatmen over a little FIRE on the beach at
La Brea, the boatman and ! walked about the
settlement looking at the curiosities, and at fire.
quent intervals he pointed out bushes to mo
which he called Roucou. l had never heard Of
Roucou. and took no particular interest in the
bushes; but he seemed to consider them OF such
Importance that at length I stopped to ex-
anime one Of them, and It was fortunate that
I did. for II was the famous Bro orelldn1,
which furnishes the annatto dye of IN
LONE ,h.ned .Imost nm. ;. heat. and ~ ,h.
no,s vora s.sds covered v,,h . rad m.
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which "a p.ad r,inc,nalIv nov ,or oo,or,nr
cheeses, giving them q slight red tinge: but in
former times 1t was used for q very different
purpose. Tho pods are covered with short
prickers, which make them unpleasant to han
die. but the boatman carefully picked q number
80 him wb.t he intenosd to do With ,bsm
.. nj. Roucou bos. he answarad. .Roucor
nj. A. naint A. Inoi.n, u.ed ,o main, darsseIvs.
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- C.rIh how paint nesaIf nm IIka his .ran,a.a-
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Ho,biro orsndsd him mora than sny IrsInu.,
,,on ,hs, he was an ord,narv coIorad hov go
snant som, time IN eYtr.cting m. wa,v min
go ,ha nod. and .,ickino g. In : INN 90
.hau ana than With bs.ntifnl saranI,v haoap %
remov. nj. clotbin0 This was no gre., tssk "a
he wora pothing bp, a straw hat and a naIr
., oo,,on ,ro,sars thu, raacba5 down roa-Ir
20 hi. Lnsas. Hs began 20 strIDe bimssI,
vy,th ,hs nerv red NUN ovar bI. ,rupL ana
r,uhs ,o,,owino "a q ssamad IN me ,ba rrincI
nal bonas Thsra va. a broad strina ror "a
s,a,cs marr,no tbs courss ~ ,ba hrsss, h,ra
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win Y '.'Pes tNs"' "hsteS eho"ihs
the ribs. The spine, the bones or the arms and
legs, even OF the fingers, were all thus marked,
,,J,h c,rclas aronna ,ha Ina ans and A. n..
"i' t"' NH"o o"p' a"u n'o nar-
row stripes running down each foot. This was
nothing. however, TO the effect produced when
$500 =, ,n.rL III. co. u..,.aauu. 49,.
nc Dosa" q "s iaoe' 0speeuhS put .
great red ring around each eye, another about
his mouth. a stripe down his nose, and diagonal
,,riDas across Mi, cheeks In thi, costuma ha
looked about as much like a young imp OF Satan
as ANYTHING | can imagine.
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Nheh "e hAd a"ihlIeu the ooy suhclehtly
he began TO dance around the camp fire, picking
nm a long stick and brandIshinv IL for a smear.
ana IL eeTuih'y ""sa S'aI'lihs representation OF
a Garth camp fire Of three or four centuries ago,
built possIbly on the same spot. He sang what
he 'aiIod war Song lh some NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
jargOn. which may have been Carib; and he en-
tered 40 fully into the spirit OF the thing that he
would have kept 1t up indefinitely II the boat
man had not put an end 10 Il. No doubt the boy
mad. . business ~ giving This sxhIbition Tor tha
entertainments OF MS passengers ana the small
coins II brought him. but l considered II well