In the Atures mission both types of tribe can be found. With the missionary we visited huts of the Macos. The independent Macos are orderly and clean. They have their rochelas, or villages, two or three days' journey away. They are very numerous and like all wild Indians cultivate cassava, not maize. Thanks to these peaceful relations some indios monteros, or nomadic Indians, had established themselves in the mission a short time before. They insistently asked for knives, hooks and colored glass beads, which they sewed on to their guayucos perizomas). Once they got what they wanted they slipped back to the jungle because missionary discipline was not to their liking. Epidemics of fever, so common at the start of the rainy season, contributed to the desertion. Jungle Indians have a horror of the life of civilized man and desert when the slightest misfortune befalls them in the mission.