CHAPTER XIV.

Road to the Primeval Forests--Barbacoas, or Indian Suspension Bridges--Vegetation--Hollow Passes--Zoology--the Montana Plantations--Inhabitants--Trade in Peruvian Bark--Wandering Indians--Wild Indians or Indios Braves--Languages, Manners, and Customs of the Indios Bravos--Dress--Warlike Weapons and Hunting Arms--Dwellings--Religion--Physical formation of the Wild Indian Tribes--Animals of the Aboriginal Forests--Mammalia--Hunting the Ounce--Birds--Amphibia--Poisonous Serpents--Huaco--Insects--Plants 271