La Junta tribune., 1912-11-23
Lima. Peru.

that He's between saliycrry and Tru-
lilo and spent some four hours at
that place The village consists Of
an Indian population with white
family or two. Is meauly built town
of adobe. mostly without plaster or
stucco aud is in thn center OF large
number Of small. walled in patches
OF ground belonging mostly To these
Indians and cultivated by them.
The walls are made Of adobe, some.
times Of adobe brick. but generally OF
mud built up in forms to the shape
and height required and are about
six 20 eight or ten feet in height
The walls which thus are the fences.
are fha ancient landmarks that form
the boundary lines and incl1sure OF
each indiana possessions Thes"
Indians llyr within the village iu
miserable adobe hu's with little or
uu covering for roof diu floors and
often balt open sIfcs. aifh no fur
uifura ani "a dirty scrap Of rug or
muay sarkuE or sbc,p-sEin goat
skin ar r0HhIdr to sit uu and sleep
ON. although they slt generally an
the ground s fsw Df thgs. small
tr1.r belong fo abirr people or peo-
pln HH1 a.gr moro whit" blood than
the great mass ~ tE,s people
The day vHs Boo Morhr. the In
dlans aern cleaning out their oaual.
which Furnishes iH" water % irri-
gate sslNr. tracts and bslDu
90 tha Indians Boo common @ Was au
interesting sIshf-B % hf worth go-
inr 10 sod. heard 'br band play
ius and I direrteI nay 50 ps DO that
direction When cam. 10 the
place where the band Eas playing, ]
found the band parchrd upon an
ad1b. san by the side of the ditch
and about two hundred ludiars In
the ditch each with 70 spade or shoy.
III aud working as thick as they
could move and keeping sort of
tim" 10 The music. throwing the earth
from tho ditch and making the ditch
ready Tor the next seasons crop
You may know that these cholls.
as they arr generally called. FOR
not many ~ th"s. Indians are
nov Of pur" Inca blood YOU may
know that they Ver. thick. for
these 200 fellows did not occupy
NOR than go yards OF the ditch
They worked very fast Everybody
was as busy as II his life depended
upon his finishing tn cleaning OF the
canal Ia the shortest possible time.
Now and then. | saw little chioha.
IN" Indian drink. distributed here and
there. but | saw but on. fellow Who
showed signs OF drunkenness of
course, there were Others Who had
enough This fellow recognizing /
WAS stranger and an American, be.
came littl" NOR. friendly and ia
miliar than | woull pr fer ~.
slapped me ON the back. took IA. by
the arm and wanted 10 introduce me-
90 a s"Borita Nouldur have oh
j"ci'd u course had h" not been
drunk
The reason | have introduced Sen,
or Ob"goro Is rather Tor what fol,
lows lie asked m. You hay. a
family No1" No" I replied. Il
never was married am what they
call an old bachelor" "yon hay.
womens No'" he said NO. I
have no woman on" h. said,
how is that" asked him. Are
you married." ~. replied. No. but
I has som"us How many women
do you have" | asked him lie r.,
piled. "oh. have two OF three som.
times" ! th"u asked DO other
men love women" ". said. oh.
yes We no marry Every body has
one woman. some more I asked
Are not these people here married
thes" people In these houses" ~.
replied No They NO married '
We'll " rcioin'd. how Is that''
"oh. they Just live together" DO
they live together all the ums-io
man and woman live together al
wHys afi'r tboy commence iivinE to
E",hrrT ~" replied. oh. no Thoy
live together awhile and when =
man gets Tired " the woman. he gooi
aud lives sith another woman
"You don't mean 20 say that th.ss
people all i've tina, way do ,ou7'
! asked llr answered. Yes 4" Don
any OF th"s" p"ppl. IN this country
ever gct married." arain asked
Not many get married" b. repeat
-d. said. The Whit. people. tn.
better class. such as the class you
belong to-don', they marry" oh
yes. they marry sometimes. They
marry" h. replied said to him,
In our country. N man and woman