Mangeromas = Mayoruna = Matsés?

AMAZON TRIBES / OLD BOOK 

explorer Algot Lange wrote about the "Mangeromas" / book = In the Amazon Jungle, Adventures in Remote Parts of the Upper Amazon River / published in 1912

he arrived to the area known as "the white man's grave" in 1910 / Vale do Javari - Javari Valley / upper Amazon River - often known as the Solimões 

initial time spent at Remate de Males - "Culmination of Evils" / a support town for the rubber industry

Remate de Males, as I have explained, is at the junction of the Itecoahy and the Javary rivers, the latter 700 miles in length, and thirty miles or so below the village the Javary joins the Amazon proper, or Solimoés as it is called here.

he explored deeper later / only survivor of his group / saved by an indigenous tribe he called Mangeromas

Henry Walter Bates wrote about this tribe in The Naturalist on the River Amazon /  text was about his explorations in the 1850s / lived 14 years in Brazil

Bates' spelling was different = "Manjerónas"/ portrayed them as "fierce, indomitable, and hostile" / also wrote that they were cannibals 

excerpts from Algot Lange's book  

There seemed to be few maladies among these people; in fact, during the five weeks I spent with them, I never saw a case of fever nor of anything else. 

When a person died the body was carried far into the woods, where a fire was built, and it was cremated. 

I saw no signs of idolatry. They believed implicitly in a good and an evil spirit.

Their faces all had the usual scarlet and black stripes. 

...the Indians cut off the hands and feet of their enemies, dead or dying, and carried them home.

I had lived here weeks among these cannibal Indians, had enjoyed their kindness and generosity without charge; I could give them nothing in return and they asked nothing. 

this indigenous group today may be the Matsés or Mayoruna / the ones that captured Loren McIntyre in 1969 / McIntyre described them as using necklaces of human bones and skulls as drinking cups 

Mayoruna comes from Quechua / means "people of the river" / they used to attack other tribes killing the men and taking women and children to be integrated into their group

both books are interesting readings from primary sources / mind the style and context of those times 

[ CONTEXT ] = old books, explorations, uncontacted tribes, Amazon