Through Five Republics On Horseback Being An Account of Many Wanderings in Sou
Through Five Republics On Horseback Being An Account of Many Wanderings in Sou
George Whitfield Ray
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" The reader may be surprised to learn that these repulsive reptiles lay an egg with a pure white shell, fair to look upon, and that the egg is no larger than a hen's. One day I was called to see a dead man for whom a kind of wake was being held He was lying in state in a grass-built hovel, and raised up from the mud floor on two packing-cases of suspiciously British origin. His hard Indian face was softened in death, but the observant eye could trace a stoical resignation in the fea- tures. Se...veral men and women were sitting around the corpse counting their beads and drink- ing native spirits, with a dim, hazj belief that 128 Bolivia, that was the right thing to do. The peddler of chicha carries around a large stone jar, about a yard in depth. The payment for every drink sold is dropped into the jar of liquor, so the last cus- tomers get the most "tasty" decoction. Next day the man was quietly carried away to the little forest clearing reserved for the departed, where a few wooden crosses lift their heads among the tangled growth.
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