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Title: The earth and its inhabitants ..
Identifier: earthitsinhabita293recl (find matches)
Year: 1893 (1890s)
Authors: Reclus, Elisée, 1830-1905; Ravenstein, Ernest George, 1834-1913; Keane, A. H. (Augustus Henry), 1833-1912
Subjects: Geography
Publisher: New York, D. Appleton and company
Contributing Library: MBLWHOI Library
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INHABITANTS OP AMAZONIA. Ill hostile elements. The Crichanas have the curious custom of burying their dead in the hollow trunks of trees killed by the close embrace of coiling lianas. All the wild tribes being driven to the upper reaches above the rapids, the Tapuyos, Negroes, and Brazilians occupy the lower courses of tbe northern affluents, where some have formed little mucamhos, or petty communal settle- ments, inhabited especially by runaway blacks, deserters, and freedmen. Through their influence Portuguese is gradually replacing the native dialects in this remote region where the lingoa geral had never penetrated. Here are still vainly sought the famous " Amazons " of the Icamiaba nation, with whom the whites had to contend during their first voyage down the great river named from Fig. 38.—Indian Populations of Amazonia. Scale 1 : 35,000,000.
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1,220 Miles. them. According to Wallace, OrelLma and his companions, seeing the young Indian warriors in the distance, with their long hair dressed in a top-knot, their necklaces and bracelets of berries, may have easily taken them for women ; hence the origin of the fabulous Amazons, suggested by classical reminiscences. Both Barbosa Hodrigues and Coudreau believe that the tribe of pretended female warriors is still represented by some of the Uaupes, whose chiefs possess "divine stones," quartz, jasper, or jade, through which they take years to drill holes, and which serve both as amulets and as badges of their authority. On the Upper Yamunda is seen a lake consecrated to "Mother Moon," into which the "Amazons" threw their muirakitans, sacred stones, representing animals, fishes, or other symbolic objects.

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