Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-10-09

red pepper mixed together. This accom-
plished, despite the poor animals struggles,
sever the jugular and pull it out sufficiently
to turn the mouth of the vein into the wind
pipe, down which the blood flows, carrying
The pepper and salt into the lungs.
The writing tortured creature is soon sur
prisingly swollen up and dies in inexpressi-
BILE agony. When the body is opened, the
lungs are found horribly distended with
blood. pepper and salt, the whole forming
one coaguiated mass. This is nachi-and
may heaven preserve US from seeing 1t
again. 1t is carefully extracted from the
yet quivering animal, cut in slices and
SERVED Up WARM.
The bodybuilding before mentioned,
which is daily article of Araucanian diet,
is merely the uncooked blood of any ami
NAL, coagulated by the addition of salt to
sheep is killed by the ordinary process,
while one woman catches the blood in a
wooden bowl, another stands by to receive
the entrails, which are stewed like tripe
and much appreciated. After the skin has
been stripped off the carcass is divided
along the spine, from tail to head, and is
usually roasted, one-half at time. over
blazing fire. spitted upon sharp stick.
In the soft light of the moon the village
beaux engaged in their favorite game of
pelican, while the girls stood watching
them in silent admiration. During the af
ternoon a number of the boys had been ac-
lively engaged in planting twigs short
distances apart, until an alley was formed,
perhaps forty feet wide by 300 feet long.
When ready for the fray half the young
men retired to the woods. After a little
while those that remained set up fearful
footing on an instrument made by the in
sertion of cows horn into Il hollow cane;
and answering notes came back from the
rival band secreted in the forest. This was
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skill. and presently the enemy came dash
ing through the forest with deafening
shouts. The Araucanian game of pelican
differs little from the sport SO common in
England, known to school-boys as ''hoclky''
or shiny" 1t is played with small
wooden ball, propelled along the ground by
sticks curved at the lower end. The OPP
posing sides nave Gheir bases at the two ex-
tremes of the alley; the ball is placed in
hole halfway between the two bases, and
over it two boys are stationed, one from
each party, while the other players are
scattered along the alley, each armed with
q stick.
When all is ready, the two in the middle
strike their sticks together in the air, and
commence h-and-tumble fight for the
ball, each striving to knock it toward the
others party. The object of every one is
to drive the ball through his opponents
base. or, in defense of his own, to knock it
sideways along the bordering line of twigs.
Ii the latter case the trial is put down as
drawn and recommenceS. Each game is
duly notched on a stick and the party first
tallying certain number gains the victory.
In this Instance some fifty players were en-
gagged. who prepared for battle by stripping
themselves to 4 poncho about the loinS
There was much shouting and scuffiing.
many hard tumble and an occasional
cracked shin, but the greatest goodwill
reigned throughout.
Meanwhile the older and more dignifed
warriors engaged in the game of avas This
appears to be somewhat like dice, and is
played with eight beans marked on one
side and ten small sticks used as tallieS. A
blanket is spread ON the ground on the
ground on which the players sit, facing
each other. Alternately they take up the
beans, shake them in the hand, and throw
them out on the blanket; the spots turned
up are counted, and the one wins who first
reaches certain number. The players
seem 10 believe, with Pythagoras, that
beans have souls, for they kiss them, talk
to them, rub them on their breasts, all the
time shouting at the top of their lungs, i'm
ploring good luck for themselves and evil
with discord of wild voices, while knives,
blankets, wives and ponies were staked
and
RAPIDLY CHANGED OWNERS
Like other uncivilized people, the Araucan-
ians are excessively fond of gambling and
habitually indulge in it. They have game
of chance which is played with a four-sided
teetotum, are expert in several games of
skill, one of which is said to resemble chess.
Many an Indian has staked his all on the
turn of bean, and returned 10 the bosom
of his family with little more covering than
that furnished him by nature. The fate of
prisoners of war has frequently depended
upon the caprice of teetotum; and when
disputes have arisen among the wise men
grave questions of state have often been
decided by the game of pelican.
But we must not overlook the ladies of
Araucania, especially on such an occasion,
when decked in festive 'gaud and gear''
Most of them have good figures and agree
able faces, with luXuriant black hair,
pearly teeth, small feet inclined to toe
inward, and really beautiful arms; but
their diet of raw meat and corn renders
them gross at an early age, and at thirty
they are tiabby old crones. No belle of
civilization is more addicted to face-paint-
ing than they, but here white powders are
not in vogue, the colors used being black
and red Two species of earth supply
these cosmetics, which are mixed with
grease to prevent them from being easily
washed off. The red is put on a broad belt
from ear to ear, over the checks. eyelids
and nose. The black is used to give effect
to the eyebrows, which are pulled out so as
to leave only a fine line, while the lids and
lashes are tipped in the same manner that
henna is used by women of the East. This
established fashion is rigidly observed, but
individual fancy sometimes varies it lit
tie, as, for example, by two black tears
running down the cheeks, and black seal
lops outlining the red band across the face.
The glossy hair is divided into two long
braids, wound aroul with strings of bright
beads, connected 1t the ends by smother
string of brass thimbles or tiny bells. o.
dinarily, the bead-bedeckeo biads are
twisted around the head like two snakes.
the ends falling down over The face or stick
ing out in front like horns; but on great oc-
cassions' such as house-raising, head
dress, large as 4 hand towel, composed en-
tirely of beads of various colors wrought in
figures, is arranged to fall low over the
forehead and hang down behind over the
back and shoulders The b. tom is fringed
with row of brass thimbles or bells, and
it is really IN effective article of dress.
The neck is encased in regular dog-col-
lar. made of leather studded with silver.
The bosom is covered with great profusion
of beads in all the colors of the rainbow,
supplemented with as many thimbles. bells
and silver coins as the wealth of the wearer
will allow. All the women wear bracelets
and anklets of beads and hollow bones, and
the chiefs and wise men, as distinction of
rank, sport anklets of bright-colored wooden
threads twisted together A womans dress
consists of two blankets, not unlike the
ponchos of the men. One OF them is wrap
ped around the body falling to the knees,
and is pinned up over the shoulders. leaving