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conic, stubborn, timid, harmless, and trustworthy, yet in- 

 tensely suspicions. He appears to be without curiosity 

 or ambition ; but I am inclined to think his stolid indif- 

 ference is not real. I never saw a fat or jolly Indian on 

 the Andes. Some writers speak of their pathetic songs ; 

 but though I have mingled freely with them from Quito 

 to Bolivia, I have never heard one sing. Crushed by 



