Word: jacaltenango
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Cliff City. Using cigarets and flattery, Oliver La Farge and Douglas Byers, ethnologists of Tulane University (New Orleans), gained the confidence of the Mayan Indians of Jacaltenango, a city of 2,000 inhabitants in the Guatemalan cliffs. They found a civilization strangely mixing mysticism and hard liquor, Christianity and paganism. They attended a native fiesta. They returned to New Orleans last week...
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