In the forest that lies deep between the western cordillera of the Andes and the Pacific Ocean there is a small tribe of Indians called Colorados. The country is Ecuador, named for the imaginary line which transects it. Of the nine tribes that live there, the Colorados are by far the most colorful. Their name means red in Spanish, and they are red indeed, painted from head to toe. I lived for a little less than a year in a forest clearing in Colorado country. - Preface.