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 . io8 THREE VASSAR GIRLS L\ SOUTH AMERICA. SO prolific, for the natives live almost entirely upon fish. The pira-ruca more than takes the place with them of our codfish. It is ahuLCC fish fi-om ten to thirteen feet lonu, with a plate armor of u^reatscales bordered with a red line, and its odor when salted is not of roses. Mrs. Holmes did not speak much; she was silently battling withher old enemies the
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 . io8 THREE VASSAR GIRLS L\ SOUTH AMERICA. SO prolific, for the natives live almost entirely upon fish. The pira-ruca more than takes the place with them of our codfish. It is ahuLCC fish fi-om ten to thirteen feet lonu, with a plate armor of u^reatscales bordered with a red line, and its odor when salted is not of roses. Mrs. Holmes did not speak much; she was silently battling withher old enemies the mosquitoes. Was it not Professor OrtonrMaud asked, Svho was reminded here of Midshipman Wilberforces. ?JllK IIKAKUCU. apostrophe,—^Ye greedy animals I am ashamed of you. Cannotyou once forego your dinner and feast your mind with the poetry oithe landscape. Suddenly the boats were surrounded by a school of leaping crea-tures larger than any of the fish yet speared. Graciliano threw histrident into the bottom of the boat and sat down. ^What are thev? Victoria asked in some alarm, not sharks?No, indeed, sharks never come up here, replied the Senhor, they are only dolphins; but the Indians have a superstition that dol- QUEER FISH. 109 phins can change themselves into men, and tliat they olten do so andcommit a great deal of mischief. The onh way which you can de-tect them is to look at their feet, which have the tricing peculiarity ofbeing turned backward. Graciliano would not dare to incur the an-ger of these backward-walking pixies, for fear that they might carrvotf his wife, or take revenge upon him in some other way. IIow^ very curious, Victoria said; will he not tell us moreabout
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