Panama and the canal in picture and prose .. . WHERE THE FLIES GET BUSY inborn instinct of the Latin-American to insult acaptive or a fallen foe, stands on the poor tunashead and strikes an attitude as one who invitesadmiration and applause. Perhaps our cameratempted him, but our inclination was to kick thebrute, rather than to perpetuate his pose, for thepoor fish was still living. It had been caught in anet, so its captors informed us. On our own Floridaand California coasts the tunas give rare sport witha rod and line. Like most people of a low order of intelligencethe lower class native of
Panama and the canal in picture and prose .. . WHERE THE FLIES GET BUSY inborn instinct of the Latin-American to insult acaptive or a fallen foe, stands on the poor tunashead and strikes an attitude as one who invitesadmiration and applause. Perhaps our cameratempted him, but our inclination was to kick thebrute, rather than to perpetuate his pose, for thepoor fish was still living. It had been caught in anet, so its captors informed us. On our own Floridaand California coasts the tunas give rare sport witha rod and line. Like most people of a low order of intelligencethe lower class native of Panama is without theslightest sense of humanity to dumb animals. Hedoes not seem to be intentionally cruel—indeed heis too indolent to exert himself unless something is to 232 PANAMA AND THE CANAL. } itolu by I ndtruood d, Vndtri^^Qd PANAMA FROM THE BAY; ANCON HILL IN THE BACKGROUND be gained. But he never lets any consideration forthe sufferings of an animal affect his method oftreating it. The iguana, ugliest of lizards, whichhe eats with avidity, is one of his chief animal is usually taken alive by hunters inorder that he may undergo a preliminary fatteningprocess before being committed to the pot. Incaptivity his condition is not pleasant to contem-plate. Here at the market are eight or ten, living,palpitating, looking out on the strange world witheyes of wistful misery. Their short legs are roughlytwisted so as to cross above their backs, and thesharp claws on one foot are thrust through thefleshy part of the other so as to hold them togetherwithout other fastening. A five-foot iguana is fullythree feet tail, and of that caudal yard at least twofeet of its tapering length is useless for food, so thenative calmly chops it off with his machete, exposingthe mutila
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