The Republican journal., 1904-03-17
The Savage AracuCanians.
supsrstitiOns of the Indians. Each Has
PERSONAL Devil and Some Have Several.

Personal Devil ana some nave several.
Sfo-,,al Correspondence of The Journal
CORRAL. CHILL, January 80, 1904.
u.r camp i'll the Llanista village was
,--qnged with the ladies' sleeping-tent
do. the center. the five other tents set
use around it, and the mules and
t.-sps tethered at little distance,
s.,r. wooded hillock served as a
.rrtkweather. A splendid grove of
,.wento pepper trees, whose dropping
ranches covered with feathery leaves
darkest green and long punches of
---pink pepper corns, nearly touching
,s .ound on every side, overshadowed
guard of armed poems and mule
,.,r> was posted night and day, and the
-.af fmen took turns in overseeing the
utl. But our precautions proved to
-ntlely unnecessary. We were never
.-- NJ the heart of civilization than in
.t.taula, iii the unsurveyed wilds of
5-sert country; and had any out
. anger menaced | believe that the
i.--who considered us their guests
r.eretore under their special pro-
tlu- would have defended us with
-.tYyes if need be.
uappened that storm came on-a
days chilly drizzle common in
altitude at any time of year, where
N-r season and dry, which prevail
The equator, are not so distinctly
r.+d. Horseback travelling in the
.r Trough an uninha bited district,
Il have been extremely uncomfort-
.- so we were easily persuaded to re-
4s n camp until the sky cleared. |
amped in many climes, under di-
t-s circumstances, and pcniced with
sorts of people; but have never en-
such real camping OUT the in
.Itd spirit of which is a return to
mUslnal life as here among one of
most war-like tribes on the face of
arth, The s1uaWs insisted on TAX
eutire care of the animals, and kept
beautifully supplied with cool water
distant spring and brush-wood
'f cooking purposes; and every morn
Hg a young sheep, freshly killed and
rrSNed, was brought as a gift from the
If. Knowing that money was one of
East desirable things we could give
.t-t kind-hearted barbarans. as they
- no use for the currency Of civiliza.
-sIu. We got even," to their unbounded
.~ight. by presents of such trinkets as
7Rd-mirrors, buttons cut from our
1theS. sewing materials, silk ties, hand
gehlets, etc. The articles that appear
~ t' give most pleasure were mouth
AN, a jewsharp and a wheeZy old
Jordan which we purchased for the
ref from the muleteers. My silver
81 dish the chief Immediately filled
r tobacco and hung around his neck
i string, and rose-colored jersey
.l.HrytSt, belonging to one of the
t.s. tAenceforth served his highness
FIte daughter, child about twelve
.eels old, as a costume complete, reach
ROM shoulders to knees, and being
only garment she wore.
When the storm first began, heralded
Eurrying clouds and muttering
lder, the Indians appeared to be
atty excited, for they knew there
going to be another great battle in
ky between their dead ancestors
The epaniards who had killed them.
wing the thunder to be the latter's
Of fear and distress, they turned
~ maSSe i'll the pouring rain to
-I the Wraiths of their warriors
-u we remembered that when one of
party asked the chief if he was not
Gtld that the Spaniards whose heads
served him for drinking cups might re-
I'D sometime to claim them, his lord
replied, with perfect sincerity, that
did not think it possible because
hey were fully occupied up in the
utGs fighting with the Indians they
az killed, and being themselves killed,
7tf and over again, through all eter-
Nty When the storm began to abate
Trey watched the skies with the utmost
H2Iety, for they have one sure sign by
1 ch to know the side that has won in
'.e ghostly battle If the clouds move
ward the village, the Indians have
'reo victorious; but if they move from
the Spaniards have won and everv
"dy is SorroWful. In this instance the
olds swept gloriously, full phaIanx,
toward the town, and all were happy.
feast was spread to which we were
Ddden. and dancing ard singing (or,
ather, howling) was kept up all night
may mention, EN- PEASANT, that though
VT attended the feast-for to have re-
named away would have been danger
us our appetites were not voracious.
ncha, home-chewed, of course, flow
-l far more abundantly than water,
aud stewed puppy figured prominently
Among the delicacies. Thanks, however,
10 The horde of living CANNES that
HoWled around the squalling circle,
and to our awkwardness-both real and
''Huated-we managed to dispose of