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Title: Up the Mazaruni for diamonds
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: La Varre, William, 1898-
Subjects: Diamond mines and mining -- Guyana Guyana -- Description and travel Mazaruni River (Guyana)
Publisher: Boston : Marshall Jones company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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. The labbas alsobelong to the hog family but are about as bigas jack rabbits. Small game birds were alsoplentiful. The maams were the best gamebirds, about the size of a very small turkeyand much like them. The white people callthem bush turkeys but scientists say that theydo not properly belong to the turkey family.We didnt care what family they belonged to,we found the tneat delicious. I do not mean that the game was so plen-tiful that it came down to us and begged tobe shot. But our Indian hunters seldom wentout without bringing back some meat. It wasa cheerful sight to see three or four hunterscome marching in, each with a part of a greattapir or deer slung over his back. We weresure of fresh pork, as we called it, for days. One of our Indians had hunted steadily forthree days without any success and he wasgetting decidedly sore about it. He had notseen an animal in any of his wanderings.When he returned empty handed on the thirdday I tried to cheer him. How come, buck man? (ii6)
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mW U WH O >^h-; < FOR DIAMONDS ^^No thing, he grunted. *Too much sit down, I said. *^No sit down! he protested. Wakwak-wak (walk), all tarn wak. Me no see. Howcan shoot um me no see? There was no argument there. If he sawnothing he certainly could bag no game. Butthis Indian was superstitious, as all are. Hegot an idea that there was black magic in mycamera, and it bothered him. Too much humbug, he said, pointing tomy camera which I happened to have withme. You tak picture all tam, put um pictureon paper and sho all mans. Deer know thisand be bexed (vexed) see um picture on pa-per. Run away. How go for catch if nosee? This was a lengthy outburst for an In-dian. He had reference to my taking his pic-ture as he came into camp with various kindsof game over his shoulders. He believed thatthe dead game knew its picture was takenand that its spirit warned the living game tokeep away because the picture taking was aninsult. He did not reason that the gamewould be warned to keep away f

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