Daily camera. [volume] (Boulder, Colo.) 1891-1928, 1899-09-12
NICARAGUANNATIVES
Characteristics Of q Cunning and
Treacherous People.
The Women Are the Physical su.
DeriOrs of the Men All Garry
Weapons and Are Nur-
AeP0as.


Gently returned from the Mosquito ter
ritory, or reservation. otherwise the
department of Zelaya, says that the
people down there are for the most part
mixture of Spanish, Indian and negro,
and possess the characteristics of each
race-the treachery of the Spaniard,
the cunning of the Indian and the tim
idity of the negro. The cross results in
high cheekbones, small, deep-set eyes,
thick lips and fiat nose. The color is
light brown. The men are understood,
but the women are remarkabl tall and
have most graceful carriage, due to
the custom Of carrying on their heads
burdens which we ordinarily carry in
our hands. This gives them an erect
bearing. and, on account of the con-
slant exercise of the muscles of the
neck and shoulders. beautifully round
ed threats and busts.
These people are utterly unable to
comprehend the meaning of pugilistic
encounter. They have no conception
of using their hands as mean. of de-
Tense. Nearly every bog. from the age
strange as il may seem to Americans,
the revolver is the favorite. The men
carry machetes. Natives rarely engage
in fair fight. The custom is assassi-
nation. If a murder be not witnessed
by at least two persons the murderer
cannot be convicted or punished. When
men quarrel they roar and below at the
- 81 at h,,s all 10,
together unless one has a decided ad-
vantage. The padres are licentious be-
yond belief, and have a strong hold on
the people.
The women are precocious in phys
zeal development. and become mothers
at II and ~ years of age. have known
them TO bear children at the age of nine.
Babies are not carried in arms, but
astraddle of the right hip. 4 woman
will walk thus burdened for many
miles. and carry round bottomed
gourd of water on her head without
dropping the vessel or splitting n drop
of the liquid. In no part of Nicaragua
did anyone ever see child in the arms
of man. This is considered by the ma
ti,es as dcmeaning to his manhood,
just as much as putting saddle on a
mare-something that is never done, as
il would subject the man bold enough
TO attempt the innovation to ridicule
and assault.
One of the institutions of the country
il the sacred ass of Greytown. This an
imal is honored with the life duty Of
bearing in feast day" procession a
man representing the Saviour entering
Jerusalem. He is the spoiled pet of the
community and does not hesitate to in
trude upon any household at meal time
and help himself to what he pleases
from the table. A, times in the parade
he gets stubborn, and when he wants
to halt he halts. and heaven and earth
cannot move him until he is ready to go
on. The procession must await his
pleasure to move.
a highly popular drink of the natives
Is a liqno. mad. from Inangoes, said to
have been distilled many years ago by
one Sebastian Gomez. Ii tastes like al
cohol favored with turpentine. 1t is
not ms seductive as the rum punch of
the Caribbean sea or the couperie of
Dominica.
curfew for foreigners only is es-
,ablishcd in Grenada. Anyone caught
ON the streets after nine o'clock at night
is arrekted,-N. y. Press.