Panama and the canal in picture and prose .. . CAYUCAS ON MARKET DAY. 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 intelligenceth
Panama and the canal in picture and prose .. . CAYUCAS ON MARKET DAY. 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
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