Word: santiagos
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...Bogotá's beggars have yet to reach the imaginative heights of the Chilean beggar who carried a closed coffin on his shoulders through Santiago streets, asking alms to bury his dead child. Prying police found pesos in his pockets, no corpse in the coffin...
...tabloid readers, as a lovers' Eden, with hibiscus and orchids everywhere and acquiescent beauty under every bush. But U.S. Army & Navy men who were stationed during the war on dry, red-dusty Seymour Island know better. So do Ainslie and Frances Conway of California, who homesteaded on Santiago and Floreana Islands before...
...Conways, who still confess to enchantment, put the case with good sense and good nature: Santiago, Floreana and a few of the other Galápagos are all right for hardy folk, but eager escapists and romantics had better stay away. The Conways went there in the first place (1937) because they were almost broke. Drawing their last $500 from the bank, they bought passage and groceries, eventually found themselves with 13? left. On Santiago, their fondest neighbors were a convict and an assortment of rats, wild pigs and wild goats. On Floreana the neighbors were mostly wild cattle, which...
...return to California and civilization, they had a letter from Frau Wittmer. "My dear friends," she wrote, "before you come back to the Galápagos, do it overthink one hundred times." Having overthought it, the Conways went back last winter, are now ensconced again on their favorite island, Santiago. They remembered the raptures of a friend: "Santiago air is cool and fresh, it rains plenty, and everywhere are pigs. Here is a pig, there is a pig, under every tree is a pig! It is just like paradise...
...orita Bombal herself once contemplated suicide. That was in Santiago in 1941. Instead, she ran into an old fiancé, impulsively drew from her handbag a Mauser pistol, fired four shots into him. He recovered, forgave, filed no charges...