. The adventures of a tropical tramp. THE HOTEL AT BERMUDEZ. ON OTR WAY DOWN THE RIVER The Battle of Puerto Bermudez 245 arms. ** Indians come here, they get one what-you-call-eet?—^one big April fool. Bermudez, on one more intimate acquaintance,began to lose its metropolitan aspect. Withnothing to do but wait there, we soon exhaustedits limited amusements, and settled down to sit-ting on a soap-box under the shade of the hotelspalm-thatched porch, and drinking lemonadewhile we watched the naked Indian maidens bath-ing across the river. The Rev. Dr. Oliver ques-tioned whether this was the prop
. The adventures of a tropical tramp. THE HOTEL AT BERMUDEZ. ON OTR WAY DOWN THE RIVER The Battle of Puerto Bermudez 245 arms. ** Indians come here, they get one what-you-call-eet?—^one big April fool. Bermudez, on one more intimate acquaintance,began to lose its metropolitan aspect. Withnothing to do but wait there, we soon exhaustedits limited amusements, and settled down to sit-ting on a soap-box under the shade of the hotelspalm-thatched porch, and drinking lemonadewhile we watched the naked Indian maidens bath-ing across the river. The Rev. Dr. Oliver ques-tioned whether this was the proper thing for usto do, but then the river was two hundred yardswide at this point, and the Indians were somedistance farther up the stream. These tropical Indians, unlike the cholos of theAndes, bathed frequently during the heat of theday. Their one-piece brown robe slips otf could see them come down through the bananagrove to the sandy beach; there would be a flashof shiny brown skin as they doffed their garmentsand dived into the river; in a m
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