Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1914-06-21

metal, as big around as the bottom of an
average tumbler The holes for them are
first made when they are children, and are
gradually enlarged by inserting bits of grass
and twigs until they 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
ear lobes SO stretched that when the plugs
were taken out they hung down from the
ears like straps, and their owners would
fasten them over the tops Of the ear in order
that they might not 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 cannibalism still exists among some of
the Indian tribes. Some of Mr.. Kroehle's
pictures are of Indians he calls the Cachros,
who live along the River Pachitea. These
people are wild and are cannibals. They
hunt with blowguns and arrows tipped with
poison so deadly that the scratch of an
arrow will cause death They do not use
money, and all of their dealings are by bar
ter. They wash the gold from the streams
and bring it to the traders in nuggets and
coarse dust In defense of cannibalism the
Cachiros say they would rather be eaten by
men than by worms, and they believe that if
one eats man he acquires all the courage
and good qualities that the man eaten had
when alive
Others of the tribes cultivate the soil in a
rude way. They have little fields of yucca,
and sometimes of potatoes and corn. The
yucca root tastes like potato. 1t is cooked
over the Goals and made into a cake; it is
also used to make beer which is somewhat
like chcha The Aguarunas are among the
tribes that have houses and cultivate the
ground They are warike tribe who fight
with poisoned arrows and build war-towers
for defense. They are polygamists and one
man may have a half dozen wives. These
people, both male and female, wear short
skirts of bark or of cotton
Another curious tribe along the Madre de
Dios river, down which Mr.. Avant travelled,
is the Huachiparis. These people generally
go naked, their favorite suits being coats of
red and black paint They cultivate the soil
and weave cloths and ropes of wild cotton.
They are like the Aguarunas in that they
have several wives They frequently make
raids on the Quichuas, the descendants of
the Incas, who live on the high plateau of
the Andes, and steal their women to replen-
ish their harems. They also buy their wives,
the price Of woman being knife or a
Ratchet. The Huachipairis make holes in
the upper lip in which they put feathers or
cti fr;a
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 pfimi-
tive nature Some of the tribes believe in
god, and some have belief in future life
with the soul going through series of
transmigrations much like that of the Budd-
hists 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 great cave, the entrance to which was
guarded by tiger. The human race was
kept in by the tiger, until one day the liberia
tor of mankind, a giant among his fellows,
fought with the tiger and killed him. Then
mankind came out and populated the earth.
After living in cave so long the human
race had become very dirty. When they
came into the light of day they realized this
and decided to wash. They heated some
water in huge earthenware jar. Those
who got the first bath came out white, and
thus the white race was formed Those
who had the next bath came out brown and
formed the brown race. The last to battle
had only the dregs and the stains which