Under the Southern cross in South America . as a back wall to which the roof extends back at a very acuteangle. The roof is of corn-thatch and the outside wall is of sun-dried brick. In fact, they are little better than a shed, or what isgenerally called a lean-to in our own country. These Indiansare wretchedly poor and live (exist is the better wordj more likeanimals than human bemgs. They are dark-faced, sullen, unhappy-looking creatures, who seem to stand in mortal dread of strangers,wholly unlike in every way our conception of the Indian character. In our ascent so far we had passed severa
Under the Southern cross in South America . as a back wall to which the roof extends back at a very acuteangle. The roof is of corn-thatch and the outside wall is of sun-dried brick. In fact, they are little better than a shed, or what isgenerally called a lean-to in our own country. These Indiansare wretchedly poor and live (exist is the better wordj more likeanimals than human bemgs. They are dark-faced, sullen, unhappy-looking creatures, who seem to stand in mortal dread of strangers,wholly unlike in every way our conception of the Indian character. In our ascent so far we had passed several stations on the road,most of them Indian villages of adobe huts with thatched andcorrugated iron roofs. Indians of the peon type, men and women,with hard, furrowed faces and slave-driven mien, came out andglared at us; they excited a commingled feeling of disgust and black eyes followed us with a stolid, unmeaning, yet uncannyglare as we lumbered onward and upward. The first place of any importance we passed was Chosica, about. ? »? INMANS AT HOAJE
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