As this tree grows at a great distance from Esmeralda, and was at that period as destitute of flowers and fruits as the bejuco de mavacure, we could not determine it botanically.
It is the bejuco de Mavacure, which is gathered in abundance east of the mission, on the left bank of the Orinoco, beyond the Rio Amaguaca, in the mountainous and rocky tracts of Guanaya and Yumariquin.
I may here insert the description of the curare or bejuco de Mavacure, taken from a manuscript, yet unpublished, of my learned fellow-labourer M.
Mutis, with the bejuco del guaco (Mikania guaco), which is the most powerful of all antidotes against the bite of serpents, and of which we were fortunate enough to give the first botanical description.
At the Orinoco the curare de raiz (of the root) is distinguished from the curare de bejuco (of lianas, or of the bark of branches).
An iron ferrule or a braided bejuco ferrule is employed to strengthen the shaft where the tang is inserted.
It is made of bejuco in Ambawan, Barlig, and Tulubin, and passes widely in the area through commerce.
The women sometimes wear the braided-string bejuco belt, i-kit', worn by the men.
It is of a uniform black color and has the bejucolacings the same as the others.
Most of the basket work of the area is of bejucoor bamboo.
It is made of six to twelve braided strings of bejuco (see Pl.
When the man is to be away from home over night he usually carries his food and blanket, if he has one, in the waterproof fang'-ao slung on his back and supported by a bejuco strap passing over each shoulder and under the arm.
It is worn on the back, secured by bejuco straps passing in front of the shoulders.
Fang'-ao is the sang'-i with a waterproof bejuco covering.
The strengthening of bejuco lacings and the raised wings are also found.
The thickest bejuco is used for rafts and cables, and, in conjunction with bamboo, for the making of suspension bridges.
Three feathers are placed about the arrow and securely wrapped at each end with a thin strip of bejuco or some strong grass.
These are made by taking a strip of bejuco and fastening the bristles to it so that they stand out at right angles to the leg of the wearer.
Some cross strips are tied with bejuco to these bamboos and the whole is covered with banana leaves.
At first he made a simple noose of bejuco so placed in the run that the deer's head would go through it and it would close on his neck like a lasso.
This trap consists of a lot of small nooses of rattan or bejuco so arranged on a long piece of cane that assisted by pegs driven into the ground they retain an upright position.
Necklaces of fine woven strips of bejuco or vegetable fiber are sometimes seen but are not common.
To count days ahead they tie knots in a string of bejuco and each day cut off one knot.
Each bejuco will yield two or three cuartillos of water.
After this they lay aside their white robes, and strip the bejuco bands from their arms and necks; the mourning ends, and they begin to eat rice again, and to adorn themselves with gold.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bejuco" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
