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To make a clearing these half-caste Indians cut and burn trees and shrubbery and plant beans, bana-
nas, tobacco, etc.
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Despite popular belief to the contrary, food is not always plentiful and easy to find in jungles.
Arrivingbackatthehutalargetinofwaterwasmadetoboilandintothisthedeadanimals
were dipped. Then the people proceeded to pull out all their hair, and when this was done the
monkeys looked more like human beings than ever. They cut off their long fingers and the
heads and cleaned them out. Once they had been cut into small pieces these were boiled with
yucca roots and a handful of the few beans and rice that were left. This dish is called mono
adobado (stewed monkey). Hungry as I was, I could hardly make up my mind to taste it, for I
felt like a cannibal. Next morning I woke up so hungry that I made a big meal of it; the beast
withinmehadgottheupperhand.Themeatwasextremelytough,butthesoupwasverytasty.
 
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