. The adventures of a tropical tramp. THE RAPID TRANSIT SYSTEM AT IQUlTOS. THE HOTEL WHERE WE OCCUPIED MAGNIFICENT ROOMS FOR A DOLLAR A DAY In Perus Most Isolated City 319 Most of these girls appeared to belong to thesemi-professional class. They were largelyworkers from the cotton mill, or servants in thefamilies of the upper-class Peruvians, trying toincrease their scanty earnings by the sale of theirvirtue. Servants anywhere in Peru receive smallpay. In fact, the time is not far distant, accord-ing to an old resident of Iquitos, when most of theservant girls there were practically slaves. B
. The adventures of a tropical tramp. THE RAPID TRANSIT SYSTEM AT IQUlTOS. THE HOTEL WHERE WE OCCUPIED MAGNIFICENT ROOMS FOR A DOLLAR A DAY In Perus Most Isolated City 319 Most of these girls appeared to belong to thesemi-professional class. They were largelyworkers from the cotton mill, or servants in thefamilies of the upper-class Peruvians, trying toincrease their scanty earnings by the sale of theirvirtue. Servants anywhere in Peru receive smallpay. In fact, the time is not far distant, accord-ing to an old resident of Iquitos, when most of theservant girls there were practically slaves. Boat-men going up the smaller rivers after rubber orvegetable ivory would bring back Indian maidensand sell them for twenty or thirty pounds. Thefamilies purchasing a girl would take her beforethe Prefect, who .officially proclaimed her thefamily ^s property. Usually the boatmen pur-chased these Indian maidens from the native tribe,although several cases are on record where theywere taken by force. Naturally these maidensdid not escape molestation from the boatmen onthe
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