The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1914-06-21

grow and become so stretched that they
will hold the great ear plugs The same
custom prevails In Burma and in other
parts OF the orient. On the highlands of
East Central Africa ] have seen earlobes
so stretched that when the plugs were
taken out they hung dIvn from the ears
ike straps and their owners would fas-
ten them over the tops of the ear in or
der that they might ut catch in the
branches as they passed through the
forest.
MANY travellers who have made their
way along the eastern slopes of the
Andes assert that can..fralism still exists
among some of the Indian tribes. Some
of Mr.. Kroehles pictures are of Indians
he calls the Cachiros, Who live along the
River Pachitea These people are wild
and are cannibals. They hunt with blow
guns and arrows tipped with poison so
deadly that the scratch of an arrow VIII
cause death. They do not use money,
and all of their dealings are by barter.
They wash the gold from the streams and
bring 1t to the traders in nuggets and
coarse dust. In defense of cannibahsm
the Ce chiros say they would rather be
eaten by men than by worms. and they
believe that II one eats a man he ac-
quires all the courage and other good
qualities that the man eaten had when
alive.
Others Of the tribes cultivate the soil
in rude way They have little fields of
yucca, and sometimes of potatoes and
corn. The yucca root tastes like a po-
tato. 1t Is cooked over the Goals and
made into a cake; 1t is also used to make
a beer which is somewhat like chicha.
The Aguarunas are among the tribes that
have houses and cultivate the ground.
They are a warlilze tribe who fight with
poisoned arrows and build war-towers
for defense. They are polygamists and
one may have half a dozen wives.
These people, both male and feamale, wear
short skirts of bark or of cotton.
Another curious tribe along the Madre
de Dios river down which Mr.. Avant
travelled. is the Huachipairis. These peo-
pie generally go naked. their favoriate
suits being coats of red and black paint.
They cultivate the soil and weave cloths
and ropes of wild cotton. They are like
the Agugrunas In that they have several
wives. They frequently make raids on
the Quichuas. the descendants of the In
cas-, who live on the high plateau of the
Andes, and steal their women to replenish
their harems They also buy their wives.
the price of a woman being knife or a
Ratchet. The Huachipairis make holes in
the upper lip in which eney put feathers
or sticks They are not friendly to the
whites and the Catholic missionaries have
been able to do very little with them.
Speaking of the religion of The Indians
of the eastern Andes it is of the most
primitive nature. Some of the tribes be-
lieve in god, and some have a belief
in a future life. with the soul going
through a series of transmigrations much
like that of the Buddhists. Certain tribes
have their own ideas of the beginning of
man. One of their ideas of the creation
is that when the world came out of the
original chaos all mankind lived in a
great caye. the entrance to which was
guarded by the tiger. until one day the
liberator of mankind, a giant among his
fellows, fought with the tiger and killed