Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1922-08-04
STRANGE Tribe
Believes Most Beautiful Woman Is
She Who Is Most Mutllated.
they live IN SOUTH AMERICA
Have no Religion Whatever and Know
Nothing of Outside World-visited
by Christian Missionary First Time
This Year ..... ..--.

There is a tribe of natives in Brazil
which has standards of beauty so diff
ferent from ours that it regards as
loveliest that woman's face which has
been most grotesquely mutilated,
writes Edward Marshall.
It's standards Of morals are SO diff
ferent from ours that although neither
male nor female of it's species ever
wears clothing OF any sort, not even a
scrap, and although during the rainy
season dozens of families live herded
in closely interviewer trees without
privacy, immortality and particularly
marital unfaithfulness are unknown
among the people. 80 *
Their innocence of the knowledge OF
the outside world is so complete that
white visitor could describe loco
motive only by saying that it was a
horse Of steel with belly of fire.
They never have had any re-
ligion whatsoever and never have set
up a single idol nor have they, till this
year, ever been visited by Christian
missionary.
Their staple article OF diet is fish,
taken from the river, and they never
have devised net or a fish hook. They
get their fish by shooting them with
arrows sped from bows and feathered
with the gorgeous plumage Of the In
Vulnerable tropical birds which abound
throughout their wonderfully rich
homeland.
This amazing tribe lives much more
than a thouand miles from the Atlantic
seaboard, in a wonderfully rich Sec
tion of the great South American Re
public which never has been visited by
any white man so far as is known; ex-
cept the Rev. F. C. Glass, a mission
airy of the Evangelical Church Of
South America.
Thirty Years Among savases. z
Mr.. Glass is an Englishman and has
just returned to his home country
after thirty years Of work in South
America, where recently his English
born wife died after spending with
him in the far regions which they
chose the whole OF their married life.
He has brought back to England for
education the six children born to
them In South America.
SO constant has been this white
mans exposure to the sun and weather
during his long and self sacrificing
service that his complexion Is that of
an Indian-dark, apparently OF Cau-
casion blood.
The country which Is marked by the
astonishing pecularities which I have
mentioned is so far up the great River
Araguaca that it took Mr.. Glass two
months to drift down in a canoe to the
east coast from which he embarked for
England.
In all he has travelled $4,000 miles In
the wilds of Brazil and most of this.
travelling has been in that part of the
interior which Is practically unknown
to other white men and, which is in
iidDilCu, odSSI ny lDOul fuV HdIlNS..
tribes, many of which are as primitive
as those to which 1 have referred.
The tribal name of this particular
people is Carapa and they are peace
able and kindly, scarcely seeming to
know fear or the sentiment Of hostili-
ty.
Their country is filled with marvel
Gus mineral wealth which never has
been tapped and it's possibilities as
cattle-raising territory are, the mis-
sionary (who seems to be a very
practical person. thinks unlimited.
Despite the terrible facial mutilation
of the women which is about the only
decorative" custom that they seem to
have, the Csrapas are physically mag
nifcent, and in their naked grace,
their discove:er believes, are unparal-
led.
Don't Marry But are Faithful.
Their skin is a dark, light brownisE1
red and the magnificent play of their
muscles beneath it as they bear heavy
burdens would offer a study which any
sculptor might travel far to make.
Their curiosity when they saw
white man for the first time was as
keen as might be expected and they
approached him with frank fearless
ness, having had few experiences with
enemies and therefore being practical
ly without thought that anyone could
desire to do them harm.
Their family devotion Is eXtraor-
dinary, but extends only to the i'm
mediate members Of a group centered
around a couple which has mated.
There are no marriage ceremonies, but
when n pair has mated the association
is invariably exclusive and for life.
These people never have developed
any intoxicating drink, although they
have at hand fruits whose juices would
ferment; they do not utilize for drink
ing purposes extracts Of the coffee
bean although coffee trees grow wild
throughout their territory.
The bright vegetable colors with
which they fantastically paint them
selves seem to be laid on without the