"HERE UPON GUARD AM I!"
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Mexican soldiers are small and sinewy men,
able to endure fatigue, privation, and pain
well. With good training and leading they
might make a fine army
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SELF-SATISFIED VANITY
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From their practice of enlarging the lobe of
the ear by inserting immense disks of wood
the name Orejone, signifying big ears, is given
to one Peruvian forest tribe on the Napo river
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