In Search of an Unknown Race — page 57: what you’re looking at

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VAN, 49 The Indians could not or would not understand his signs. Indeed they paid but little attention to their prisoner, knowing probably that he could only escape by jumping overboard, in which case the alligators would make short work of him. Two men pulled leisurely on either oar, while the remainder squatted in close proximity to a pile of spears, only moving when called upon to relieve the oarsmen. The spears, with heavy lancewood bows and long arrows, were their only weapons. There was something almost appalling in their strange silence, and the personal appearance of the raftsmen was anything but prepossessing. Each man had his head closely shaven, excepting just above the forehead and behind the ears, where the hair was allowed to grow and hang over the shoulders like a shaggy mane. Their bestial and savage look was heightened by the practice common among the Mumurus of chipping the upper and lower front teeth to a sharp point, so that they resembled saw teeth. There was a cannibalistic suggestion in the looks of this people which was by no means pleasant. Van put the idea as far as possible from his mind, but de- spite his best efforts the terrible thought would come up, and it is no wonder that he gradually gave way to the deepest despondency as he realized his almost hopeless condition. Eomicbdoo