Indigenous peoples of South America

Well, certainly not from the average drugstore.

Karari is made by the South American Indians.

It's very rare in this country.

Say, Stanley, did you notice? Dexter died at the same time Quartz was executed.

The natives were Kukama Indians, an amiable but degraded race, with mental powers hardly superior to the average Londoner." So, I mean, it's funny, it's genuinely funny, but also there's a tiny bit of kind of all lives matter here.

It's like he's saying, well, yeah, I'm racist about South American Indians, but I'm also racist against Londoners.

So, you know, what does it matter? I think I am actually willing to give the benefit of the doubt here.

I think Conan Doyle is just having a joke and he's just making out Challenger to be just an asshole who's rude about just about everybody.

Now, the word Curupuri.

The notes here in the Annotated Lost World say, Curupuri, correctly spelled Curupira, is one of the two bush spirits of the ancient Tupi tribes and is still popular in Brazil.

Although he protects game animals and is generous to those who help him, kuru pira is greatly feared by country people because he severely punishes those who are rude to him and their source there is a book from 1963 the comparative ethnology of south american indians volume 5 and some of the references here are quite old that's not And some of the language is a little bit dated considering this is from the 90s.

But yeah, there's still great stuff in it.