Four Times The
Attempt To Drop Her In Right Was Made, With Similar Results, And
Finally The Husband Deliberately Broke His Dead Wife's Neck, And Bent
The Head On To The Back; Then He Broke Her Limbs Across His Knee, And
So The Ghastly Burial Was At Last Completed!
Truly, "the dark places
of the earth are full of the habitations of cruelty." Let the one
whose idea is to "leave the pagan in his innocency" visit these
savages, and, if he lives to tell it, his ideas will have undergone a
great change.
They are lost! and millions have not yet heard of the
"Son of Man," who "came to seek and to save that which was lost."
At the death of any member, the toldo in which he lived is burnt,
all his possessions are destroyed, and the people go into mourning.
The hair of both sexes is cut short or pulled out, and each one has
the face blackened with a vegetable dye, which, from experience, I
know hardly ever wears off again. As I have said, everything the man
owned in life is burnt and the village is deserted; all move right
away to get out of the presence of the death-giving spirit. To me the
toldo would not only seem abandoned, but the people gone without
leaving a trace of their path; but not so to Wolf Rider, my guide. By
the position of the half-burnt wood of the fire, he could tell the
direction they had taken, and the number gone - although each steps in
the other's footprints - whether they were stopping to hunt on the
way, and much more he would never tell me.
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