Three Vassar girls in South America : a holiday trip of three college girls through the southern continent, up the Amazon, down the Madeira, across the Andes, and up the Pacific coast to Panama . -, began to thump with theirpestles in tlie large larinha mortars, and to send oti rockets, and tire guns. ^ What is the meaning of all this racket? Maud inquired. Have. INDIAN n)KA OF AN ECIJPSE. we chanced upon the Brazilian Fourth of July, or is this the fete ofsome more than usually illustrious saint? The Professor explained that the Indians were exorcising an evilspirit who had stolen the moons f
Three Vassar girls in South America : a holiday trip of three college girls through the southern continent, up the Amazon, down the Madeira, across the Andes, and up the Pacific coast to Panama . -, began to thump with theirpestles in tlie large larinha mortars, and to send oti rockets, and tire guns. ^ What is the meaning of all this racket? Maud inquired. Have. INDIAN n)KA OF AN ECIJPSE. we chanced upon the Brazilian Fourth of July, or is this the fete ofsome more than usually illustrious saint? The Professor explained that the Indians were exorcising an evilspirit who had stolen the moons food. The Indians believe, saidhe, ^that every few weeks a young moon is born; its growth is con-stant and rapid, and finally it reaches its full, obese middle age; then, NEAR TO NATURES HEART. 81 like man, It grows no longer, but beeomes daily tliinncr until it fadesnwa} and dies, and its place is supplied by its otlspring. Now whenan eclipse occurs they attribute the diminished lorm to the depriva-tion of the daily allowance of farinha, which some trick}- spirit hasstolen away. Then, to encourage the dying moon, and to comj)e-l theevil spirit to restore the food, two operations are necessar\ : fnsl, thebeating of farinha in the great family mortar, and second, the shootingof rockets and firearms to scare the liend who is causing the belief
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