The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-06-23

MECHANlO.
ployer named kroehle, who spent
three years in travelling amonS them
He had a camera with him. and | was
bile to get some prints from his mega
tives. Some Of these | dare not pub
lish. for the figures are entirely nude.
being especially interesting from An
chronological standpoint Mr.. kroehie
was twice wounded with poisoned ar
rows. and he had some narrow es-
capes from the head hunters IN the
n~eighborhood OF the River Napo. He
describes the NapO reglOn as run O
queer people. Some of the Indians
there have in the lobes of their ears
plates of wood or metal, as big around
as the bottom Of an average lumber,
The holes for them are first made
when they are children, and are grad
ually enlarged by inserting bits OF
grass and twiSS until they grow ana
become so stretched that they VIII
hold the great ear plugs. The same
custom prevails in Burma and IN
other parts of the orient. On the
highlands of East Central Africa l
have seen ear lObeS SO stretched that
when the plugs We're axe out they
hung down from the ears like straps,
and their owners would faSten them
oyer the tops Of the ear in order that
they might not catch in the branches
as they passed through the forest.
Many travellers who have made their
way along the eastern slopes OF the
Andes assert that cannibalism still
exists among some Of the Indian
tribes. Some of Mr.. kroehle's pic
lures are of ndian he calls the
Cachiros, h live along the River
Pachitea. These people are wild and
-eL l~--
guns and arrows tipped with a poison
so deadly that the scratch of an arrow
will cause death. They do not use
money, and all of their dealings are
by barter. They wash the gold from
the streams and bring it to the trad
ers in nuggets and coarse dust In
defense of cd~nnibaliSm the CachirOS
| say they would rather be eaten by
men than by worms, and they believe
thai if one eats a man he acquires
all the courage and other good quail
ties that man eaten had when
alive.
Others Of the tribes cultivate tn
soil in a rude way. They have little
fields of yucca, and sometimes of po-
tatOeS and corn. The yucca rOO
tastes like a potato. It is cooked over
the Goals and made into a cake; it i
also used to make a beer which il
somewhat like chiCha- The Aguaruna:
are among the tribes that have hoGse:
and cultivate the ground. They ar
a warlike tribe who fight with poison
ed arrows and build war-towers 70
defense They are polygamists ant
one man may have a half dozen wives
These people, both male and female
wear short skirts of bark OF of cotton
Another curious tribe along tn
Madr de Dios River, down which MI
Avant travelled, is the Huachipairis
These people. both male and female
wear short skirts Of bark or Of cOttoI
Another curious tribe aoln-, the Ma
Dire de Dios River, down which MI
Avant travelled, is the Huachipairi:
These people generally go naked, thei
favOrIte suits being coats OF red an
black paint. They cultivate the so
and weave clothes and ropes Of will
cotton. They are like the Aguaruna
in that they have several wives. The
frequently make raids On the Quich
uas. h descendants of the Incas. VIII
: live on h high plateau Of the Ande.
and steal their women to replenis
their haremS. They also buy hi
| wives, the price Of a woman being
! knife or a Ratchet. The Huachipair
make holes in h upper lip in whic
they put feathers or sticks. They al
t not friendly to the whites and til
Catholic missionaries have beer alb
2 to do very little with them.
5 Speaking Of the religion Of the II
S dams Of the eastern Andes, it is Of tt
most primitive nature. Some Of TT
9 tribes believe in a god, and some ha,
a belief in a future life, with the Sol
going through a series OF t~ransrnigrs
S tons much like that of the Buddhist
Certain tribes have their own ideas
t the beginning of man. One Of the
: ideas of the creation is that when IL
{ world came out of the original cha,
all mankind lived in a great cave. IL
entrance to which was guarded by
s tiger. The human race was kept
by the tiger, until one day the liber
a tor Of mankind. a giant anon his fe
e lows, fought with the tiger and kill,
s him. Then came out al
populated the earth. After living
d a cave SO long the human race h;
r. become very dirty. When they car
S into the light of day the realized TT
n and decided to wash. They heat
e some water in a huge earthenwa
- lar. Those who got the first ba