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brate at different times a religious festival called 

 kamarouko. According to the ancient rite it is said 

 the conductors of the solemnity were to be virgins. A 

 sexual orgy winds up the festival ; and though it is 

 possible that alcohol may conduce to the brutality of 

 the present-day performances it seems improbable that 

 this feature of the ceremonies is wholly traceable to 

 drink. 1 Dr. Preuss quotes from von Tschudi a 

 description of a harvest festival among the Peruvians 

 taken from an old Spanish ecclesiastic. In the month 

 of December, we learn, at the time of the approaching 

 maturity of the fruit called paftay or paPta those who 

 are to take part in the feast prepare themselves by 

 abstinence from salt and utsu, a species of capsicum, 

 and by strict continence. On a certain day designated 

 at the beginning of the feast (which lasted six days 

 and six nights) men and women assembled all stark 

 naked at an appointed place between the fruit-gardens. 

 At a given signal they started in a race for a fairly 

 distant hill. Every man who during the race overtook 

 a woman had intercourse with her on the spot. 2 



The foregoing survey of practices foreign to our 

 ethical code, and utterly inconsistent with masculine 

 jealousy as we understand the passion, might easily be 

 extended. Accurate statistics are, of course, im- 

 possible on the subject. The examples I have col- 

 lected however show that these practices are found 

 not here and there isolated in a vast ocean of healthier 

 morality ; they abound in every quarter of the globe 



1 Journ. Am. F. L. xiv. 151, reviewing and citing Comte Henri de 

 la Vaulx, Voyage en Patagonie. 



2 Preuss, Gtobus, Ixxxvi. 358, quoting Pedro da Villagomez, Carta 

 pastoral from von Tschudi, Beitrage sur Kenntnis des alttn Petu 

 (Vienna, 1891), 26. 



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