. The adventures of a tropical tramp. THE gringo camp AT MOROCOCHA. ONE OF THE :\riNES AT MOROCOCHA In an Andean Mining Camp 49 coaxed. Wlieii at dinner with me, he would re-mark suggestively, ^^This meat reminds me ofring-tailed Mexican spider monkey,^ after whichhe would wait patiently for me to ask, *^Whendid 3^ou eat ring-tailed Mexican spider monkey?After I had coaxed him for ten or fifteen minutes,he would start a series of reminiscences whichwould cover everything from a banquet with thesepia-colored president of a West Indian repub-lic to a dog-roast with th savages of the UpperOrinoco
. The adventures of a tropical tramp. THE gringo camp AT MOROCOCHA. ONE OF THE :\riNES AT MOROCOCHA In an Andean Mining Camp 49 coaxed. Wlieii at dinner with me, he would re-mark suggestively, ^^This meat reminds me ofring-tailed Mexican spider monkey,^ after whichhe would wait patiently for me to ask, *^Whendid 3^ou eat ring-tailed Mexican spider monkey?After I had coaxed him for ten or fifteen minutes,he would start a series of reminiscences whichwould cover everything from a banquet with thesepia-colored president of a West Indian repub-lic to a dog-roast with th savages of the UpperOrinoco. And w^hen he had finished, as thoughrealizing that he had been immodest in gratify-ing his love of story-telling, he would wave hishand in depreciation of himself and conclude,**But that was nothing. Judson had killed three Mexican bandits in histime, although he was quite harmless in appear-ance, with washy blue eyes that squinted almosttimidly through horn-rimmed glasses. **Itwasnt any adventure, he explained, *4t wasdarned hard w^ork. Another man with an int
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