. The adventures of a tropical tramp. n the plaza every evening,and even besieged transient guests at the Palacio,eager to earn a few centavos. Of course, prosti-tution is rampant anywhere in the tropics, wherecenturies of the Latins rule over the Indianclasses has not tended toward a moral uplift, butthe condition seemed particularly acute in Iqui-tos. The girls fairly swarmed in the evening, semi-Indian girls of all ages, with little physical at-traction save that of youth, dressed in one-piececotton garments of varying degrees of shab-biness, their eyes seeking customers. Iquitosboasted tha
. The adventures of a tropical tramp. n the plaza every evening,and even besieged transient guests at the Palacio,eager to earn a few centavos. Of course, prosti-tution is rampant anywhere in the tropics, wherecenturies of the Latins rule over the Indianclasses has not tended toward a moral uplift, butthe condition seemed particularly acute in Iqui-tos. The girls fairly swarmed in the evening, semi-Indian girls of all ages, with little physical at-traction save that of youth, dressed in one-piececotton garments of varying degrees of shab-biness, their eyes seeking customers. Iquitosboasted that it contained no assignation houses,nor did it require any. The girls would come tothe little stone plaza fronting the malecon, andthe eagerness with which they stared at our win-dows did not speak well for the habits of formergringo visitors. One wrinkled old woman wouldbring her fourteen year old daughter to the riverembankment, and if we chanced to glance fromour windows, would point to the child after themanner of an THE RAPID TRANSIT SYSTEM AT IQUlTOS
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