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ANCIENT AND MODERN MINGLE IN THE GUIANA HUNTSMEN'S ARMAMENT
| Wild animals, nearly all nocturnal in their habits, are abundant in the impenetrable forests and rolling savannas of Guiana. Among the game are jaguars, sloths, puma, ant-eaters, tapirs, and armadillos, with various breeds of deer and monkeys. There is thus plenty of scope for the hunter who, when possible, equips himself with firearms, but most often depends solely upon his bow |
RUDE SHELTER THAT MAKES HOME TO THE INDIAN'S WIFE
| As in other parts of the American continent, so in Guiana, many of the native tribes show certain Mongoloid traces in eyes and cheek-bones, of which ethnological curiosity a good example is this Indian housewife garbed in simplicity before her rough dwelling. The population of this colony is, for the most part, grouped in and around the capital or in the main river valleys |