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MEN WHO WALK AS TREES AMONG THEIR FELLOWS |
ECUADORIANS IN NATIVE HOMESPUN |
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| The migrations of these wandering giants, the Tehuelches, are difficult to follow. Among the mountain-passes of the Southern Andes they carry on a trade in guanaco skins with the white man. Otherwise, they have little intercourse with their neighbors; but the itinerant trader, knowing their weakness for the magical fiery draught, haunts their toldos with business-like pertinacity | Indian-made ponchos of Ecuador are excellent in respect of both material and manufacture. Those of the finest quality are woven of wool raised in the highlands round about Quito |