you push it down again. But how does that make the water come?"

Harry. "It draws the water up by suction."

Examiner No. 1. "Yes; by suction. Can you give any Latin motto to show how the water rushes in to fill the empty place left by the water?".

Harry. "Natura abhorruit vacuum.'" Examiner No. 1. "Yes. Now translate this Latin expression."

Harry. "Nature abhors a vacuum.'" Examiner No. 1. "Very good.-Brother B., have you any further questions to ask?" Brother B. "No, I think not."

not of the menial sort, will reject a gratuity; the former almost certainly with something like resentment.

I remember a Londoner's telling me that, on coming to this country, he had several times offended Americans by his desire to "tip" them; that they nearly threw the money in his face, and assured him they were gentlemen. "And they weren't any thing of the sort, either, you know," he continued, "for they were very seedy, and I dare say hadn't a guinea to bless themselves with. You Americans are an awfully funny lot, now, aren't you, though?"

To my remark that we thought the poorer we were the more right we had to be proud, he looked perplexed, and murmured: "Yes, yes; Americans are deucedly rum." No doubt it is as difficult for our cisat

Perhaps, too, this will do for the present for us, and perhaps we may return again to this subject of Professional Blunders.

THE Ο Μ ΝΙΡΟ ΤΕΝΤ

SHILLING.

UR Anglo-Saxon kinsmen beyond the

American passion for the almighty dollar; unmindful or unconscious that it is quite equaled, if not exceeded, by their love of the omnipotent shilling. They who have spent any time in England must have learned that the shilling is much more of a power there than the dollar is here. It will accomplish on the other side what a dollar, though four times its value, will not begin to accomplish on this. A stranger is apt to think that there are few classes in England so exalted as to be beyond the acceptance of a shilling; and, when he has ceased to be a stranger, he is almost sure of it.

In the United States, persons that take douceurs or gratuities are usually in a servile capacity, and nearly always foreigners; the native having a pride that will seldom allow him to receive money for discharging his duty or rendering a courtesy. In England, no such nicety is observed. If you find any one over there who refuses to have his palm crossed with silver—a circumstance altogether improbable-ten to one, he is not to the manor born. In willingness to take money, wherever, whenever, or by whomsoever offered, the average Englishman is, in spirit at least, uniformly a servant. He is not only willing, he is anxious, energetic, resolute, to take it; he expects it; he counts on it; he feels aggrieved if he fails to get it, although he has done nothing to earn or entitle him to it. Where the line is drawn in England it is impossible to say. I once put the question to one of my countrymen who had passed much of his life there, and he frankly confessed his inability to answer. "I have discovered a few individuals," he added, "but I have never found a class that were not on the lookout for fees." Here you may be confident that any decently-dressed American, or any foreigner,

take money as for us to understand why they should take it on the slightest or even without pretext of service. The reason is plain enough; but the thing at issue is a comparison between the almighty dollar and the omnipotent shilling. They are so voluble about the former that we may well be excused for reference to the latter.

Tipping, as it is called over there, has become so much a habit that everybody falls in with it. The English, as a rule, do this or that thing because other Englishmen do it. They follow established custom blindly, unquestioningly; believing that custom rests on some divine right, like that of a king to a crown, or of a man to be a fool, if he so chooses. A good number of Britons, especially just now, are opposed to this perpetual and causeless tipping; for it has so increased of late as to be a serious annoyance to all, and a grievous expense to many. Comparatively few Americans have any adequate idea of its extent, and depth, and strength. They must stay on British soil a while to learn how firmly it has taken root.

Very recently I was told, in England, that the present Duke of Wellington, having accepted an invitation of the queen to spend a few days at Windsor Castle, offered, on his departure, a sovereign to each of the servants who had waited on him during his visit. The royal flunkies elevated their insolent proboscides, and said, "We don't take gold;" meaning thereby that, as the Bank of England issues no notes of a denomination less than five pounds, that was the smallest amount they would condescend to accept; whereupon the duke, it is said, went home and placed in each of his guest-chambers a printed notice that none of his guests should, under any circumstances, fee his servants, and that if they did so they would incur his serious displeasure.

This may sound strangely to persons unaware that, from time immemorial, it has been the custom in Britain for guests to fee the domestics of the gentleman or lady whose hospitality they enjoy. This would be a breach of etiquette that would hardly be pardoned here; for it would be an intimation that the servants of your host were not properly paid. In England, the breach of etiquette consists, or has consisted, in not recognizing the claims of every visible flunky to liberal

compensation for his kindness in doing his master or mistress's bidding. If you accept an invitation of a friend to breakfast or dinner in Manchester, Liverpool, or London, John Thomas will think extremely ill of you unless you give him a crown or half-crown at your departure, by way of showing your ap preciation of what he has not done for you. What the queen-by court etiquette the first lady of the land-tolerates, and even sanctions, the nobility and gentry, and even the plainest citizens, must subscribe to. Hence tipping the servants of your host is not only the habit, but the fashion; and the combination is irresistible.

One would think that the effort of the Duke of Wellington (not because of the name he bears, but of his rank) to break up this custom might succeed. I gravely doubt if it will. I hear, indeed, that it has had no perceptible effect. Tipping would seem to be a part of the British Constitution, were not the Constitution in a chronic state of imminent peril, according to the politicians, while tipping is in no danger of disturbance whatever. Certainly it shows no symptom of yielding a jot, nor will it, in all probability, for the very reason that it ought to have been extinguished long since.

The sturdiest endeavors to suppress tipping have heretofore been made in England without the smallest result. A few years ago all the railways combined to crush it. The managers and directors held meetings, and determined that they would discharge every and all of their employés who should, on any pretense or for any reason, accept a gratuity from a passenger. It was believed at first that the cooperation of these vast corporations to that end would abate the nuisance. For a while it was mitigated; but ere long it was as bad as ever, and for two or three years past it has been steadily increasing. You still see notices in the railway-stations that the servants of the companies are forbidden to receive gratuities; and yet your own eyes tell you that travelers regularly pay the por ters, guards, everybody they come into contact with, capable of adding to their convenience or comfort. The porter's duty is to handle luggage; he is hired for that purpose alone; but he hardly ever performs his duty without pay from the passenger to whom the luggage belongs. The fee is not large-a few pence, often a shilling-but it amounts to a good deal, because it is given every time the baggage is touched. You do not pay one man only you pay him who takes your wraps, bundles, or trunks, from the carriage; you pay him who has the baggage weighed, and you pay him who puts it in the van and assumes to look after it. This involves an expenditure of one shilling and sixpence to three shillings, and is to be undergone, even though your journey be but a few miles. I have known passengers going from Liverpool to London-a distance of two bundred miles and stopping en route, to pay nearly a pound to the railway-employés for doing what the company expressly hired them to do.

It is common to say that on English railways a judicious use of the shilling will se cure every thing that is to be secured, and

the saying is substantially true. If two persons are traveling together, and wish to have a coach to themselves, they have merely to intimate as much to the guard and put a piece of silver in his hand, and the thing is accomplished. If you are going from London to Edinburgh, or intend to take any other night-ride, you can have a coach alone by paying the proper fee. In this way you can enter a second-class compartment, which has no divisions of seat, stretch out at full length, 2 wrap yourself in rug and shawl, and get a good night's rest. Before sleeping-coaches were introduced into Europe, all experienced travelers chose such method.

I understand matters have gone so far that persons often buy second, even thirdclass tickets, aud obtain first-class accommodations by bribing the guard of the train. The bribe is much less than the regular tariff, hence its economy and liberal employment.

into the restaurants. At breakfast, or luncheon, or dinner, you pay sixpence for service in the bill, and sixpence-frequently a shilling to the waiter who brings you the bill!

In the United States we think the obligation, if any, is on the side of the person receiving money. The English seem to think the obligation rests with him who pays. Thousands of gratuities are given every day in England for no better reason than because the English find somebody kind enough to take their shillings. They often tip a flunky who has done absolutely nothing; whom, indeed, they have not seen until he condescends to accept their cash. Not infrequently they pay service three times-I confess my own guilt in this-by giving it at the inn where they may not take their meals (service is always charged without any reference to its renderings); by giving it to the restaurant where they eat; and by giving it to the waiter who has served them. The nuisance is growing so rapidly that the time may not be distant when all respectable persons will be expected to pay six times for one service.

Marvelous is the potency of a shilling, or

while you can call a policeman and command a shilling.

Show places like Eton Hall, Blenheim, Warwick Castle, Chatsworth, can be seen for a pecuniary consideration. The opulent noblemen who own them are very kind to open them to the public, but visitors must fee the servants. The noblemen are not rich enough to render the gratuity unnecessary. No Englisbman could be so rich as that. Such affluence is not to be measured by British money.

I remember, years ago, when I first visited the Bodleian Library. After I had been through it, notwithstanding a well-dressed, intelligent man, who had opened two or three doors, kept suspiciously near me, I hesitated to offer him any thing. I thought books refine the mind; the very presence of immortal works softens, broadens, spiritualizes. Men privileged to breathe this atmosphere must be lifted above pecuniary consideration. Still, the fellow was at my elbow, and his every feature resembled a financial point of interrogation. Waveringly I placed a shilling in his hand. He glanced at it, and seemed surprised. I turned crimson, and

ond time for him as he said, "Couldn't you make it half a crown, sir? " Since then I have learned England and the English better.

People in the street, policemen at the corners, ushers at the theatres, tradesmen, custodians of all sorts, subordinates, and superintendents-men, women, and children-scan your face for a shilling, and are uneasy until they clutch it. The British are a sterling people in more than one sense. They may not care for their pound of flesh; but they insist on the pound that is composed of twenty shillings of silver.

Railway-attachés seldom if ever ask for gratuities openly. But they do negatively, and in a manner difficult to resist. Positive demand is wellnigh superfluous, so well setled is the custom, so fixed the price, so perfect the silent understanding between the paTon and the client. This methodic, wholeale tipping has not been introduced by forigners or strangers, who in the beginning are holly unacquainted with it, but by the native nd resident population, and is sustained and trengthened by them. Why do they practise ? Do they like to pay twice for the same hing? Not at all. They practise it partialbecause they deem it essential to convenence and comfort, but mainly because others ractise it. As true Englishmen they must ollow in the lead of their fellows they have ot the moral courage to depart from popular sage. They all acknowledge it to be wrong principle; that it is a serious tax on the arse; that a great many feel obliged to pay es when they can't afford to; and still they ntinue the habit, defending themselves by king, "How are we to get rid of it?" It ight to be broken up, they admit; but nody is willing to make a move to that end. The charge of service in European hotels as originally made to prevent servants from portuning travelers; in other words, to deive them of any excuse for begging for fees ter the regular bill had been paid. To a rtain extent this has been effective on the ntinent, though it is wholly inoperative in itain. In England, especially servants exct fees, and ask for them with their whole exession, quite as much as before service was egular charge. If questioned, they saying less than the autograph of one of the doubt truly-that they do not get the sere, and by a queer logic reason that, beise the innkeeper deceives or imposes on his patrons, the patrons should in turn imposed upon by his servants. Nearly all glishmen pay the proprietor for service, 1 pay it over again to the servants. They lare it a licensed extortion; but then evebody does it, you know, and they hate to odd-another way of saying they fear to thought mean. They have fully as great idity on this subject as we financially-senive Americans ourselves. In London and er large English cities service has crept

The English policeman is generally obliging, but how much of his obligingness is due to his scent of remuneration it is needless to inquire. He rarely asks in words for money, but he will receive it with amazing alacrity. He is always prepared to take any thing, from a sixpence to a sovereign, ever so many times duplicated. Entrance to more than half the places in London, where an order is supposed to be indispensable for admission, can easily be had by "tipping a bobby." To the House of Peers, for example, where noth

lords, spiritual or temporal, is said to secure ingress, half a crown to a policeman has been for years the regulated price. The same or less will serve for closed palaces, historic houses, art-galleries, or curious collections. When in England, never be intimidated by shut doors and flaring notices of inaccessible

ness.

Seek a policeman and produce your shilling. These will prove your open sesame." If you see a vast crowd before you anywhere, and you fancy you are not going to get in, appeal to a policeman with silver, and straightway you will have precedence.

Never despair of any thing in England

The persuasive power of the shilling in England has its advantages, particularly for strangers and tourists whose time is limited. It unlocks doors, removes difficulties, cuts red tape, reduces friction. But it has its disadvantages, also, notably for the English themselves. Willingness to take money for aught but honest work is a bad sign. It mars manliness, impairs independence, dulls sensibility, integrity, honor. It is one of the many inconsistencies of British character; contradicts much of its sterling worth. We frankly confess that we pursue the almighty dollar too ardently. It is the mote in the American eye. But until the English have cast the beam of the omnipotent shilling from their own, they should extend to us the charity of silence.

JUNIUS HENRI Browne.

THE PERUVIAN AMAZON AND ITS TRIBUTARIES.

NOTES FROM A JOURNAL OF TRAVEL.

V.

June 15th.-Before daylight this morning we got under way, the Indians all manifesting great dissatisfaction, and protesting against going farther. They discover, very suddenly, that they have ailments of various kinds, pleading sore hands and feet from exposure to sun and water, though they have known nothing else all their lives. One old fellow is pitiable to see. He is in such terror of the Campas that you can actually see him trembling as he stands out in bold relief as popero of one of the canoes. Many years ago he was one of a party under the leadership of a priest, who attempted to reenter the Campa country. They were at

tacked by the Indians; and this old fellow and one other were the only ones so fortunate as to escape alive, he bringing away a Campa arrow in his body, the scar of which is now plainly visible.

At ten A. M. we arrived at the head of canoe-navigation on the Pichis, in latitude 10° 22′ 55′′ south; longitude, 74° 49′ west of Greenwich; elevation above sea-level, 213.359 metres; distance from the Brazilian frontier at the mouth of the river Yavari, thirteen hundred and fifty-six miles, and from the mouth of the Amazon (following the course of the river), thirty-five hundred miles; and, in a direct line, only one hundred and ninety miles from the Pacific coast. The river here was so rapid and shallow that it was necessary for the men to get out and haul the canoes up over the rocks. Among these rocks we found numerous specimens of coral and sea-shell; and just ahead of us loomed up the eastern spurs of the Andes. As the canoes could float no farther, this terminated our exploration of this river. We named this point Port Tucker, in honor of the chief of the expedition, and determined to remain here until the next day, before starting on our downward voyage. The average current of the river Pichis we determined to be two and one-fifth miles per hour. This average seems to be small for a rapid stream; but the difficulty in ascending arose from the fact that there were beds of round stones and gravel at intervals of every two or three miles, over which flowed a very rapid current, and between which a comparatively slow one intervened, thus making the above average.

June 16th.-When we awoke this morning we could hardly recognize our Indians. During the night they had all painted; some to protect themselves from the effects of the sun and water, and some to protect themselves from the Campas. The manner of painting to keep off the Campas was very simple. It consisted in a streak of blue vegetable paint, passing through the mouth and terminating at the ears, thus giving the wearer the appearance of having a bridle-bit in his mouth. I do not know wherein consisted the charm, but it was firmly believed by those who had thus painted themselves that they could not be struck by a Campa arrow. At half-past seven A. M. we embarked, and, much to the joy of our Indians, commenced the descent of the river.

In a short time we were borne by the swift current down to the confluence of the Herrera-yacu, where we stopped to breakfast and to verify observations. We found the presents, which we had left here for the Indians, untouched; and this our Indians regarded as rather a bad sign. Here we cleared for action, and made every thing ready, as we had to pass the outpost settlement. The current was strong, and we went at the rate of four or five knots per hour. When we neared the point where we expected the Indians, we heard a tambour in the woods, and knew that they were astir. Here there were rapids in the river, and the foremost canoe went aground. It was impossible to stop, and one by one each canoe shot past like an arrow. The Indians of the grounded canoe knew that their salvation depended upon

getting her off; so, in a second, they were overboard and at work. They got it off, however, so as to come in just behind the rear-guard canoe. We continued our voyage, nothing more of interest occurring; and in one day, going down-stream, we accomplished what it had taken three days to do in ascending. Why we were not attacked we cannot understand. We heard the Indians in the bushes, saw their tracks, and saw where their balsas had been moored within the last day or two. We supposed, however, that it was because we did not remain long enough for them to collect in sufficient numbers; for numerically we made quite a show.

June 18th.-At two P. M., yesterday, we reached the mouth of the river Trinidad, a tributary of the Pichis, and which we had passed on Trinity Sunday on our ascent, and which we intended to explore as we went back. When the order was given to turn up into this river, there was almost open mutiny among our Indians. At four P. M. we stopped for the night, the current being so strong that we had made only four miles in that time.

Under the cover of darkness five Indians deserted, thinking it better to try to navigate two hundred miles on a raft through the country of the Cashibos, and trusting to the fish that they might catch for subsistence, than to again run the gantlet of the Campas. Our numbers were so reduced by this last desertion, and the remaining Indians so worn out, that it was impossible to get the boats up higher, and so the exploration of this river had to be abandoned, and all our energies directed to regaining our old camp at the confluence of the Pichis and Palcazu. This we reached at five P. M., to find that our old ranches had been washed away by a rise of water. Thus ended the exploration of the Pichis proper. The vegetation along the banks is almost identical with that of the Ucayali and Pachitea, the trees being only remarkable for their general worthlessness as fuel for steamers and for timber. On all these upper rivers we have met with only three or four varieties of trees that serve as fuel for steamers, and these varieties are not very numerous close to the banks. For a mile or so back from each bank, the trees are not so tall, so large, or so close together, as in our virgin forests in the United States, and resemble enormous weeds more than any thing else I have ever seen. I have seen a tree three feet in diameter and eighty feet high exactly resembling a stalk of purslane, or, as it is commonly called, pursley. For the most part the undergrowth consists of varieties of palms, with creepers and weeds. There were many signs of animal life on the Pichis, but few varieties. We saw innumerable tracks of tapirs and ronsocos. We saw several large snakes also, but none resembling the boa. Two varieties of turkey and two of duck were the only fowl we saw fit for eating. After leaving the hills the river runs through a low basin, and I suppose that, for a large portion of every year, the banks for miles and miles back are under water, thus rendering it impossible for other animals than those mentioned to exist. There

were no mosquitoes or sand-flies; and there is an old Indian proverb that where the mosquitoes will not live the country is unhealthful. This proved to be so, all of us getting chills or some sickness, the result of malaria, that clung to us as long as we remained in South America.

June 19th.-There is one point, the posi tion of which we are anxious to establishPort Prado, on the river Palcazu; and this morning a call was made for volunteers from among our Indians. At ten A. M., with two canoes manned by the most unwilling set of volunteers I ever saw, we set off; and by nightfall accomplished ten miles. The Pal cazu only differs from the Pichis in having higher banks and a stronger current.

Port Prado, June 21st.-Last night we ar rived within a few hundred yards of this place; but it was so dark we were afraid to attempt a passage of the rapids. These are formed by the pouring in of the waters of the river Pozuzo at right angles to the direction of the Palcazu; and so all hands slept on a playa of round rocks not four inches out of the water, and the river slightly rising. Some of our men waded to the near. est bank to collect firewood for the night, and reported having stirred up a jaguar.

Port Prado, in latitude 9° 55′ 22′′ south, longitude 75° 17′ 45′′ west of Greenwich, is at the head of navigation for light-draught steamers on the Palcazu. It is the point to which the people of Huanoco and all the interior mountain-country have been for so long a time looking as the terminus of a railroad that would connect them with the ocean and furnish a market for their many valuable products.

It is just at the mouth of the river Mayro and half a mile from the mouth of the Pozuzo. Judging from their mouths, these are bold mountain-streams, their high, abrupt banks being strewed with immense bowlders brought down from the Andes, and their courses obstructed by numerous rapids. For several months during the year, on account of the bowlders and débris, washed down from the mountains, the Palcazu itself, even after its volume has been increased by the two aforementioned streams, is unnavig ble for light-draught steamers. Every few miles the stream spreads out, and ripples over immense beds of round stones and grave; and over these inclines we had, at this stage of the water, great difficulty in drawing our canoes. Along the banks, however, the marks on the trees indicate the water is har ing been, during the rainy season, at least twenty feet higher than at present.

As in the Pichis, there is, between these gravelly beds, but little current, the average being three and a half miles per hour. Port Prado is distant from the Brazilian from tier, at the mouth of the Yavari River, thir teen hundred and seven and a half miles; its elevation above sea-level is 242,815 metres

The general characteristics of the scenery are boldness and ruggedness, and from port are visible many mountain-spurs and tal peaks. One of these, a very lofty and beaut ful mountain, seemed to be recognized by Indians as a landmark, and was called by the "El Miradero," or "the Watch-tower." T

is the point at which the padres, in their visits to Ocopa, abandon their canoes and strike out into the forest. For the maintenance of their Indian crews that have to remain here until their return, they have set out some plantains and other fruits; but these before they are ripe are generally stolen by a small, weak, wandering tribe called the Lorenzos.

We found here a party of Christianized Indians waiting for the return of a priest from Ocopa. We noticed also an enormous old canoe, with the name "Pio IX." burnt on its side. This canoe must assuredly have made the lengthy voyage, and have gotten over the mal-pasos by a miracle only. Many of these Indians were suffering with tertiana -chills and fevers - and were completely

prostrated by it.

June 22d.-At an early hour we got under way, and at three P. M. joined our companions and sick men whom we had left at the mouth of the Pichis. To-morrow we start for the steamers. This morning, before setting out, when breakfast was announced, we were all struck with a savory smell; and, with more han usual alacrity, formed a circle around he pot into which the sergeant was scooping. for a long time rations had been scarce, and he idea of something fresh was very pleasnt. One by one we received our plates of tew, and one by one each person, after takng a few mouthfuls, seemed to lose his relh for it, until finally about two-thirds of the lates were put down only partially emptied.

About this time, however, it occurred to Come one to ask the old major, who was the aterer, what kind of meat he had been forinate enough to procure. His reply was, Moño, señor!" ("Monkey, sir!"). Those ho were eating at the time seemed suddenly tisfied, and without a word the ring around e pot was broken, and each person, aprently wrapped in the deepest reflection, rolled off by himself.

On this trip our Indians have reveled in ung alligators and monkeys; but most of r party have not become sufficiently Inthanized to consider such things delicacies.

June 27th.-Started this morning for the eamers. Our return down-stream is very Sonotonous. We now accomplish, in one ky, the distance it took us three to make, en going up, although our Indians work ry lazily, and had to be called up last night d threatened with a flogging should they t do better on the morrow.

We were paddling along to-day downeam, keeping out in the middle of the er, so as to get the full benefit of the cur at, and making about four or five knots an ur, when we discovered four canoes crawlalong the right bank, and almost hidden the overhanging brushwood. They proved be a party of Conibo Indians on the warth, their women accompanying them. They a supply of fresh fish and plantains, a rtion of which they sold us, much to our

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According to their custom, they saluted by bringing out masato in enormous calashes, which they passed round from mouth mouth, and were much surprised at our drinking. However, our Indian crews igged it, to the satisfaction of all parties.

We made them some small presents, and learned their mission and plans. They were the advance-guard of the Conibos of the Ucayali, and were going against the Cashibos, to steal their women and children. Three or four times during every year, these parties | are organized, and make expeditions for this purpose. But this was on a larger scale than usual. This advance-guard consisted of fifteen or twenty men, with their wives. Not allowing themselves to be seen, they were to proceed well up into the country of the Cashibos, pull their canoes out of the water, and hide them away; then take a position in the woods, and live for weeks, and probably months, trying to spy out, and find where the Cashibos were best situated for attack. As soon as all was ready, they would communicate with the main body, which was collecting from all directions at the mouth of the Pachitea.

The mode of capturing their brother-savages is this: The Cashibos, during low-water season, come down from the hills and back country to collect turtle and fish on the playas. As soon as they have assembled in a kind of encampment on the bank, the Conibo spies send word to the main body. This steals up, traveling by night, and in the darkness a circle of Conibo warriors is formed around the Cashibo encampment, and, at a given signal, begins to contract toward the centre. The Conibo women are waiting, with the canoes all ready in some secluded spot, to embark the warriors, in case of defeat. But the Conibos, their bows and arrows being better, having the advantage of being the surprising party, and always taking care to attack in superior numbers, are seldom defeated. If the surprise is a success, all old men and old women are put to death, and all young women and children kept, the best-looking women for wives for themselves, the ugly ones and children to be sold to the occasional merchants, who come up the Ucayali to trade with them. At a Conibo village, where I staid for several weeks, fully one-third of the inhabitants were Cashibos, and slaves of the Conibo braves. These little cannibals are very much sought after by the whites of the low country, as slaves; and their price varies from ten to fifty soles apiece. Recently, a steamer, having on board almost a dozen of these little infieles (as the good padres call them), of both sexes, arrived in Yquitos. They were locked up in a room on board the boat, and some show made of keeping it secret, as it is against the laws of the country, although the trade is openly carried on by the highest officials on this side of the Andes. I suppose there are some thirty or forty of these little savages in Yquitos, and, as their owners know that they will run away as soon as they get big enough, they get the most they can out of them now. One, a little boy, about ten years old, is very intelligent. He has learned to speak Spanish; and says he remembers traveling through the woods once with his father and mother, and some other Indians. They were attacked by Conibos, and his father and all the men killed. He, his mother, and all the other women, were taken prisoners. He knows no more, and cannot remember how

he got to Yquitos. He shows that he was bred in the forest of South America, for, if he sees a rat eating any thing, he will creep up behind it, and, before it knows what is the matter, catch it by the tail, and jerk it hard enough against the ground to kill it.

Among some of the interior tribes human heads are another article of traffic, in opposition to law. They are those of captives taken in war, and afterward put to death. By some process, known only to themselves, the heads are shrunk, leaving the features perfect, and the hair of the usual length and color. The skin becomes dry and hard, like parchment, though looking perfectly natural. It is said that pins are driven through the lips, to prevent their talking while undergoing torture, and also to enable the head to be hung erect. This custom of preserving the heads is still practised, though they cannot be induced to divulge the secret. The tradition, however, is this: the bones are taken out, and the cavity thus formed is filled with hot stones, which are shaken about until the drying and shrinking process is completed.

June 28th.-After a canoe-voyage of forty-one days, at twelve M. to-day we reached the steamers, and found them anchored just within the mouth of the Pachitea. Our descent of the river was, as a general thing, of not much interest-the only things worth mentioning which I have not recorded being an attack on the rear canoe by the Cashibos, resulting in the wounding of one of the latter; the grounding of a canoe in shooting some rapids, throwing some of us overboard and far out into the water; and the ascension of Inca Rock, which resulted in no new discoveries, except that the Cashibos were about there. One thing rather interesting that we observed was the total destruction of one of their chacaras by the Cashibos, because, in going up, we had taken a few plantains from it. Day after to-morrow we start back to Yquitos.

Physically the Indians of the Ucayali and Pachitea are not so large nor so strong as the white men of North America or Europe. Of their minds there is no good way of judg ing, but they certainly evince great ingenuity aud skill in the manufacture of weapons for war, canoes, and household and cooking utensils. Those who are friendly and have business relations with the white man are in some instances honest, and have great regard for their word. They are very superstitious and cruel. They believe firmly in an evil spirit or devil, but whether or not they believe in a good one is not certain. Their laws with regard to chastity are very severe. Among the Conibos, if a woman bears her husband twins, both of the children are killed, because one is the child of the devil, and it is impossible to discover which. Among the Cashibos the same custom prevails, with the additional enormity that both are buried alive. Cashibos are, I believe, the only known tribe living on the tributaries of the Ucayali that are cannibals, and, besides being cannibals, they eat even their dead. Their weapons consist in the bow and war-club. Their arrows, from the greater size, have not the same range as those of our North American

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