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~~~~ ~~~'" ... ... Dli!"" -~~~cl ... _ _, ..1. /., 'I ,! -; __. r/ l 6473 In order to reach thigh part of the interior country one boards a small coasting vessel at Panama and sails southeastward sixty miles along the shore to the Bayano river, then follows up the river among wooded hills and tropical jungles. There are no' towns in this part of the country. A village of a dozen or twenty huts like these constitutes a metropolis. House-building here requires little labor and less capit- al. Bare earth constitutes the floor. Four posts with a few cross-beams make a sufficient frame; bundles of palm-leaf tied in place make walls as tight as anybody cares to have in this tropical climate, and a thatch of similar material serves to keep out the worst of the rain. Cheap calico and muslin are brought now and then from Panama or from some smaller seaport settlement, in exchange for surplus bananas and cocoanuts. It is the Simple Life reduced almost to its lowest terms. The rice which these grimy youngsters are pounding (to remove the husks) is a poor quality, raised on a very small scale by the most primitive methods. That mortar was cut out of a single section of timber, and is as elabor- ate a piece of furniture as the family owns. The rice will be cooked in an iron pot over a fire of wood or S charcoal. ?S-!::,,.?. The population in a village like this is of mixed blood-- partly Spanish, partly Indian, with an occasional admix- ture of African by way of negroes from the West Indies. The prevailing speech is corrupt dialect of Spanish. Most of the village people are wholly illiterate; some of them have heard of the glories of Panama city, but of the rest of the world they have not the most vague idea. From Notes of Travel No. 40, copyright Underwood. by Underwood & Pounding rice in a village in the interior of Panama. tcrasant du riz,.,dans un village de l'int6rieur, Panama. )a~ 3eritampfen ber teift'irner in einem )orfe im 3nneren Panama'ss. Moliendo arroz en una aldea del interior de PanamA. Malning af risgryn i en by i det inre af Panama. ToAjeHie pnea B b AepesBH~ Bo BHyTpeHHOA IIaHaMI. J I I I I I I I |
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