Through five republics on horseback; being an account of many wanderings in South America . the youth and beauty ofthe place danced and drank liberal potations ofchicha, the Bolivian spirits, until far on intomorning, when all retired to their hammocks todream of their Virgin and her lovely babe. After this paper Virgin the next most promin-ent object visited I saw in Piedra Blanca was asaint with a dress of vegetable fibre, long hairthat had once adorned a horses tail, and eyes ofpieces of clamshell. Up to four years ago, the statute was in forcethat Every one who directly or through any actc
Through five republics on horseback; being an account of many wanderings in South America . the youth and beauty ofthe place danced and drank liberal potations ofchicha, the Bolivian spirits, until far on intomorning, when all retired to their hammocks todream of their Virgin and her lovely babe. After this paper Virgin the next most promin-ent object visited I saw in Piedra Blanca was asaint with a dress of vegetable fibre, long hairthat had once adorned a horses tail, and eyes ofpieces of clamshell. Up to four years ago, the statute was in forcethat Every one who directly or through any actconspires to establish in Bolivia any other reli-gion than that which the republic professes,namely, that- of the Roman Catholic ApostolicChurch, is a traitor, and shall suffer the penaltyof death. After a Vv^eeks stay in Piedra Blanca, duringwhich I had ample time for such comparisons asthese I have penned, quarantine lifted, and theexpedition staff separated. I departed on horse-back to inspect a tract of land on another fron-tier of Bolivia, 1,300 miles distant. 130 PART in. PARAGUAY. i:» *• AN INDIAN AND HIS GOD NANDEYAEA I need not follow the beaten path;I do not hunt for any path;I Willi go where there is no path,And leave a trail. im PARAGUAY Paraguay, though one of the most isolatedrepublics of South America, is one of the hundred years before the Mayflower sailedfrom old Plymouth there was a permanent settle-ment of Spaniards near the present capital. Thecountry has 98,000 square miles of territory, buta population of only 800,000. Paraguay mayalmost be called an Indian republic, for thetraveller hears nothing but the soft Guaranilanguage spoken all over the country. It is inthis republic that the yerba mdt6 grows. Thatis the chief article of commerce, for at leastfifteen millions of South Americans drink thistea, already frequently referred to. Thousandsof tons of the best oranges are grown, and itsorange groves are world-famed. The old capital, founded in
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