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A GOOD TYPE OF BOLIVIAN INDIAN |
INDIAN WOMEN KEEPING SHOP AT THE DOOR OF THEIR ADOBE HUT |
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| The Indians of the High Plateau, unlike those of the tropical and swampy parts along the Brazilian border, are strong and, under pressure, capable of considerable labour, but the habit of chewing the leaves of the coca plant dulls their mental faculties | As one travels across the high plateau of Bolivia, Indian women will be found near the railway stations with baskets of savoury patties or fruits from the tropical regions, or, as here, offering strange mixtures of eatables and ornamentation. He who purchases from them anything to eat must not venture to peep within the squalid interior of their casuchas if he would keep his appetite |