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...started the riot? Preliminary investigations pointed to agents provocateurs in the crowd. Communists blamed "monarchists and Fascists." Rightists blamed Communists. Said white-haired Police Chief Luigi Ferrari: "God alone knows...
Shaken but still hopeful, De Ferrari took the children on to the mission school at Puerto Ayacucho. They stole clothes, tried to set fire to the buildings. One night they stole away. They were not seen again...
...their ankles, their heads were in the shape of pears. Their savage mouths gave even the good Monsignor pause. In their hands, as weapons, they carried sharp, long thorns of the támara tree. They spoke no recognizable language. But they could speak in pantomime, and De Ferrari could understand them...
Monsignor de Ferrari packed the pair on a raft, started off down river with them and several other jungle children for his mission school. In the night, the Kirikas leapt upon a sleeping child. An awakened missionary collared them, saw that támara thorns were in their hands. Thereafter, the Kirikas were bound to the raft with stout ropes...
Some nights later, when the expedition had moved ashore, Monsignor de Ferrari was startled from his sleep by the eerie screams of a howling dog. With his Indian helpers he set off in the direction of the howls. On the ground they found the disemboweled body of the Monsignor's favorite dog. Its eyes had been plucked; its belly had been ripped. Regretfully, the priest concluded that his Kirika charges had done the deed...