Word: ilama
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...night fitful fires of Ilama dung and cactus leaves lighted the little camp 13,000 feet up on the cold and terrifying wastes of the Bolivian Andes. By day the treeless wilderness rang with the blows of a crude stone hammer as a swarthy Bolivian and a handful of Indians kept themselves warm smashing rocks. In quest of the precious, bluish-white metal called tin, they found only dull reddish dirt. The Indians, craving alcohol and coca leaves, wanted to quit. One day they cracked out a few grains of tin. Later a full-fledged vein was uncovered. The Bolivian...
Another interesting, but perhaps irrelevant, discovery of ours relates to the South American domestic animal, the Ilama, still much used in these regions. The method of employing these creatures is unique. They are put in pairs, and a yoke is simply placed across their necks with projections hanging down on either side, but not fastened below. Obviously, in order to escape, all one of the beasts needs to do is to lower his head; but by a sort of stubborn pride they always bear their heads high, and are never known to escape. We have found Ilama bones in many...
...come to study men, yet shy like a frightened Ilama at the slightest difference among them. That fellow-citizens should know even their most distant brothers to be all of the same stuff is the hope of the country. Here is the opportunity. There are none to take it. We ask no sentimental orgy over having lived together with another for a time. We ask merely that each shall be made to realize that the other is neither a simpleton, a jackass, nor a pig. For is it not true that when these students are gone without these walls they...
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