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EARTH EATING INDrANs.-The


hamlet Of Uruana is inhabited by the


Otomacs, one Of the rudest Of the A.
lmerican Tribes. These Indians swal.


low quantities Of earth for the purpose
Of allaying hunger. When the waters
are low they live on fish aud turtles


but when the rivers swell, and it be-
comes difficult to procure that food,
they eat daily large portion Of clay.


The travellers found in their huts
heaps OF il in the form Of balls, piled


uP in pyramids three or four feet hiyh.


This Substance 10 fine and uuctuous, of
q ayellowish-grsy color, containing silica
and aIumina, with three OF four per
cent. Of lime. Being restless and tur.


oulenf people, with unbridled passions
and excessively given to ,ntoxication,
the little village Of Uruana is more diff
6ctslt to govern than any Of the other
n. IS. ons. BY inhaling at the noee the
POW de- obtained from the pods of the
acaci.' nsope they throw themselves in.
% a stal e OF intoxication bordering on
madness, th.et Lasts several davs. dur
ne which a. .-e.odful murders are com.
nitted.


The most vim die tive cover the nail
{ the thumb witt, tbe euraye poison,
he slightest scratch, t>eing thus sufi-
lent to produce dea.'h. When this
r'me Is perpetrated at night they cast
he body into the river. Every time
and the monk, tsthat / see the women
itch water from part Of the shore to
mich they do not usually 60 Mr. it, ]


inspect that a murder has been COM
,itfed in my mission.''-Hunsboif's Re
,oyrhes.