. The adventures of a tropical tramp. nts. Knowing that the Huitotas, a neighbor-ing tribe, were very fond of wooden plugs forear-ornaments, they had brought along a truck-load of wooden spools. But these Indians wereOcainas, and it seems that the Ocainas were wear-ing brass plugs in their ears this season. ** Their objection to undressing was not due tomodesty,* explained Professor A., who had wit-nessed the function. ^^They merely wished to bephotographed in their new clothes. They felt asan American woman might feel if forced to bephotographed in her last years styles. The Ocaina village wa
. The adventures of a tropical tramp. nts. Knowing that the Huitotas, a neighbor-ing tribe, were very fond of wooden plugs forear-ornaments, they had brought along a truck-load of wooden spools. But these Indians wereOcainas, and it seems that the Ocainas were wear-ing brass plugs in their ears this season. ** Their objection to undressing was not due tomodesty,* explained Professor A., who had wit-nessed the function. ^^They merely wished to bephotographed in their new clothes. They felt asan American woman might feel if forced to bephotographed in her last years styles. The Ocaina village was one of those w^hosenatives gather rubber for the Peruvian AmazonCorporation, whose alleged treatment of the In-dians caused so much scandal back in 1911, whenSir Koger Casement visited the region for theBritish Government and reported that the rub-ber gatherers were cutting off the fingers or earsof their employees as a punishment for not bring-ing in enough rubber, and in some cases wereburning the Indians alive. I had met various. ALONG THE AMAZOX
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