These Indians are now lazy and peaceful, and the inter-village wars, formerly frequent and sanguinary in the extreme, are now, thanks to the teachings of the priests and the Colombian settlers, a thing of the past. Their arms, which are now used only for hunting, consist merely of _machetes_ and shot-guns, obtained from the Colombians, and the _bodoquedas_ or _cerbatanas_, already described, which they get, in exchange for their hammocks, from the Indians of the Napo. Their food is much more diversified than that of the Santiago Indians, for, in addition to the numerous forest products, such as the _papaya_,[53] the _lime_,[54] the _caimito_,[55] _marañon_,[56] the _pishuayo_,[57] bread-fruit,[58] the tender tops of the _chonta_, the _camona_, &c., hunting is excellent here, and many are the animals that fall victims to their skill. Among these we may mention, as the most important, the _danta_ or _sacha-vaca_[59] which lives in shady swamps; the _chancho del monte_ or _huangana_,[60] which is a kind of peccary that lives in herds in the depths of the forest; the _ronsoco_ or _capivara_,[61] a large amphibious rodent; the _venado_ or deer,[62] of which there are several species; several kinds of monkeys, such as the _guaribas_, the _cotomonos_, and the _maquisapas_; the _sloth_[63]; the armadillo[64]; and various others. They also hunt wild birds of many different species and sizes, such as the _paujiles_, wild-ducks, partridges, wild-turkeys, various kinds of doves, &c. To all these we must add the numerous different kinds of fine fish, which they catch at all seasons of the year, especially in the dry season. Among the most important of these are _palometas_, _corbinas_, _bagres_, _boquichicos_, _gamitanas_, _cunchis_, _dorados_, &c. For fishing they use nets made of _chambira_-palm fibre, spears and hooks manufactured from hard wood or thorns, which they bait with larvæ or with the fruit of the _setico_[65] tree. Besides these, they frequently employ the celebrated _barbasco_.[66] Selecting some pool or quiet corner of the river, they drop a quantity of the crushed leaves and root of this plant into the water, which shortly assumes a milky hue and soon poisons the fish, both large and small. Directly the whole surface of the pool becomes covered with the dead bodies of the fish, of which the largest only are selected, the rest, including the millions of tiny fish, thus being killed and left to rot without being utilised at all. On other occasions they often take advantage of the pools left when the river goes down in the dry season, the fish imprisoned in them being either speared or caught in nets.