Three Vassar girls in South America : a holiday trip of three college girls through the southern continent, up the Amazon, down the Madeira, across the Andes, and up the Pacific coast to Panama . -. They are one of the pests ol this region, the Senhor explained;and by the way, have 3ou ne\ cr heard that they act an importantpart in the native wedding ceremony? No one knew of this, and he told them entertainingly that when anIndian wished to marry he was submitted to the ordeal of having hishand tied up in a bag of fire ants, his endurance of the pain provinghis fitness for the trials of matrim
Three Vassar girls in South America : a holiday trip of three college girls through the southern continent, up the Amazon, down the Madeira, across the Andes, and up the Pacific coast to Panama . -. They are one of the pests ol this region, the Senhor explained;and by the way, have 3ou ne\ cr heard that they act an importantpart in the native wedding ceremony? No one knew of this, and he told them entertainingly that when anIndian wished to marry he was submitted to the ordeal of having hishand tied up in a bag of fire ants, his endurance of the pain provinghis fitness for the trials of matrimony. The Professor laughed, — I certainly have suffered more thisafternoon, he said, than in all the twenty years of my married life. His feet were so swollen that it was necessary to put him to bed,and to defer the fishinor excursion until another evenins:; and this theSenhor seemed very willing to do, though he was profuse in hispolite regrets for tlie Professors io6 THREE VASSAR GIRLS IN SOUTH AMERICA.
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