animated appearance. Some of them had on necklaces composed of the teeth of
wild boars slain in the chase; many wore rings, and others had an ornament
on the left arm midway betwixt the shoulder and the elbow. At the close of
day they regularly bathed in the river below, and the next morning seemed
busy in renewing the faded colours of their faces.

One day there came into the hut a form which literally might be called the
wild man of the woods. On entering he laid down a ball of wax which he had
collected in the forest. His hammock was all ragged and torn, and his bow,
though of good wood, was without any ornament or polish: "erubuit domino,
cultior esse suo." His face was meagre, his looks forbidding and his whole
appearance neglected. His long black hair hung from his head in matted
confusion; nor had his body, to all appearance, ever been painted. They
gave him some cassava bread and boiled fish, which he ate voraciously, and
soon after left the hut. As he went out you could observe no traces in his
countenance or demeanour which indicated that he was in the least mindful
of having been benefited by the society he was just leaving.

The Indians said that he had neither wife nor child nor friend. They had
often tried to persuade him to come and live amongst them, but all was of
no avail. He went roving on, plundering the wild bees of their honey and
picking up the fallen nuts and fruits of the forest. When he fell in with
game he procured fire from two sticks and cooked it on the spot. When a hut
happened to be in his way he stepped in and asked for something to eat, and
then months elapsed ere they saw him again. They did not know what had
caused him to be thus unsettled: he had been so for years; nor did they
believe that even old age itself would change the habits of this poor
harmless, solitary wanderer.

From Simon's the traveller may reach the large fall, with ease, in four