OVER TRAIL AND THROUGH JUNGLE IN ECUADOR 



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WEAPONS OF CIVILIZATION AND SAVAGERY : RlELE AND BLOW-GUN 



These Jivaros accompanied the author's party from Zamora to Loja, a three-days' 

 journey. The Indian with a bandaged leg had recently become a successful head-hunter and 

 refused to eat any meat, in accordance with tribal custom. The others were restricted by no 

 such deterrent, and the photograph shows a bird ready to be cooked. 



ing all the burden-bearing. Dressed in 

 their picturesque ponchos, they give to the 

 city the aspect of a frontier town, an 

 aspect rather belied by the flourishing 

 business of the cinema, where we saw 

 our own Pearl White thrill the emotional 

 Ecuadorean to the point of wild enthu- 

 siasm. 



Quito is by far the most attractive city 

 in all Ecuador, and the traveler is loathe 

 to leave it, if his stay has been a short 

 one. 



LOJA, 



METROPOLIS OF SOUTHERN 

 ECUADOR 



Because of their inaccessibility, the in- 

 terior towns are apt to be more pictur- 

 esque, more untrammeled by civilization 

 in its final manifestations. Such a city is 

 Loja, the modest metropolis of southern 

 Ecuador, with a population of perhaps 

 ten or twelve thousand souls. 



The educated class of the Lojanians, 

 the vSpaniards, are very punctilious in the 

 observance of dress, and it is a common 

 sight to see a citizen clad in very proper 



Prince Albert, with a tall hat, cane, and 

 resplendent shoes, picking his way over 

 the uneven cobbles, rubbing elbows with 

 a scarlet-ponchoed Quichua or crowding 

 by a group of Canari Indians, with their 

 hard woolen hats, which look like dirty, 

 disreputable derbies. 



Two small streams flow through the 

 city, the Rio Malacotas and the Rio 

 Zamora, destined to become part of the 

 Amazon, and it is well worth a walk to 

 one of the bridges over these rivers to 

 watch the townspeople bathing and wash- 

 ing their clothes. Every one enters the 

 water with his clothes on, and by dint of 

 a great deal of splashing evidently is 

 able to overcome the handicap of this 

 covering. 



Probably the most important of all 

 these interior cities of the interandean 

 region is Cuenca, to which a railroad is 

 being constructed. 



There are numerous small towns of only 

 a few hundred population, where the ar- 

 rival of a traveler from the outside world 

 is a great event. The passage of such a 



