. The adventures of a tropical tramp. te collars, they refused to mingle with thelower set, and formed a group by themselves. The tropical tramps of the roughneck division,disappointingly quiet from first impression, be-came more interesting upon closer of them were morose, silent men, who sel-dom spoke of their pasts, and to whom an inquiryregarding their reason for coming to the interiorof South America would have proved an affront,but most of them had come merely to seek for-tune and adventure and had remained to enjoythe easy life. All of them had tasted adventurein many
. The adventures of a tropical tramp. te collars, they refused to mingle with thelower set, and formed a group by themselves. The tropical tramps of the roughneck division,disappointingly quiet from first impression, be-came more interesting upon closer of them were morose, silent men, who sel-dom spoke of their pasts, and to whom an inquiryregarding their reason for coming to the interiorof South America would have proved an affront,but most of them had come merely to seek for-tune and adventure and had remained to enjoythe easy life. All of them had tasted adventurein many quarters of the globe, but most of themlacked the imagination to know an adventurewhen they tasted it. A few of them were collegegraduates; the majority were uneducated saveby travel; a few were illiterate. To get the interesting tales of their experiencesone had to dig. Even Judson, the little Texanwho had assisted me in Lima and who presentlyarrived in Morococha, although he loved to tellme about his adventures, insisted upon being. THE gringo camp AT MOROCOCHA
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