The weekly Corinthian. (Corinth, Miss.) 1894-19??, 1916-03-23

first OF the consistency of cream,
soon thickens, then dry and hard.
The oil of sassafras is. obtained
| nuch in the same way.
| The numerous tributary streams
J Of the Amazon differ remarkably
, in the color of their waters. The
character of the vegetation on
| their banks and animal life that
inhabit them. The main stream
lof the Amazon is white water
| stream, while other streams run
| through all the shades of yellow
| and olive to black. The Rio Ne
| gro, which is the largest and most
noted of all the black water
streams, appears at its mouth as
black as ink; this stream at its
head waters has the curious phe-
nomenon of it's waters flowing in
two directions. viz: to the north
and into the Orinoco. and to the
south into the Amazon.
The boats on the Amazon are
/! floating palaces, but the boats on
the tributary streams are not so
good, nor are they particular as
to cargo. In addition to a cosmo-
politan passenger list in which IN
dams largely predominant, the
boats are crowded with cattle.
hogs, sheep, goats and poultry and
the smell reminiscent Of farm
yards pervade the atmosphere,
and that too In a temperature
that threatens to burst the Their
mometer, is decidedly disturbing
to newcomers. However. the trip
is useful prelude to what is to
follow, for all Indian smells re-
quire a certain amount of getting
used to.
Along the banks of the Amazon
where the Indians live in semi
civilized state and with their Pc
culiar habits and language in a
general measure lost, the Portu-
guese language is used, but on the
Rio Negro and farther inland the
Indian language is used. The true
denizen of the forest is different
being from the so-called civilized
Indian, for many Of the cOmplicat-
ed villanies of man called civil
lied, are unknown to him, in fact
to the happy native Of the track
less wilds, crimes, miseries, power
ty, wants, broken hearts, broken
banks and a thousand other tor
lures invented by man called civil
lied, are unknown: he is rich
without wealth and happy with
out knowledge. The mountain
tribes are peaceful INDECENT peo-
pie and in both sees the most per-
feet regularity of features exist.
The cheek bones are not so gener-
ally prominent, nor are the eyes
oblique like the Redman of North
or even the Mongolian
Of Asia. Many Of the women who
have large black eyes and a rich
head of glossy black hair are
quite pretty and in color only diff
fer from good looking white
woman. They are as free from
encumbrances Of dress as it is
possible to conceive and the beau
ty Of these women, mingled with
the natural riches and human pow
erty form a sad sight. Their fea-
lures exhibit little mobility of ex-
preston and their imagination is
Of a dull gloomy quality; nor do
they seem to feel keenly the emo
tons of joy, grief, fear or enthu-
siasm, and probably their good
ness consists more in the absence
Of active bad qualities than the
possession of good ones; in other
words, a negative rather than a
positive. But we have in our
great cities millions who live
lower life in physical and moral
health than these so-callcd saw
ages. In the true meaning Of the
word we have no heathens left
IN the American Continent; all of
the aboriginal tribes have to
more or less degree come under
he influence Of civilization. | 10
lot mean by this that they do not
ynch negroes. rob banks. and
steal railroads, like Christians, but
t does seem unfortunate that in
eaching the heather so much that
S good, he Harmed from civilized
nan so much that is bad. Civil
zation gives rs joys, pleasures
md delights that make us live a
whole life in each day, but if our
utilization be perfect, why should