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the: mascot OF THE regiment 



Condors are seldom tamed. Their home is in the azure above the towering- Andes and 

 on the highland crags. In this century the airplane crossing the Andes disputes the condor's 

 domain. 



Some of the Mapuche girls I met had 

 names half Christian, half pagan, like 

 little Maria Epuqui, who went to all the 

 trouble of changing her gown on the side- 

 walk to have her picture taken. Her best 

 clothes and shoes were in a bundle under 

 her arm. 



There are Catholic and Protestant mis- 

 sions among these Indians. The British 

 missionary, who has lived here for 

 twenty years, rides back into the wilder- 

 ness and camps with his flock. "They 



are eager to learn Spanish," he told me, 

 "better to cope with the Chileans and re- 

 tain their allotted lands." 



ARAUCANIAN BLOOD IN CHILEAN VEINS 



The tragic history of this valiant for- 

 est tribe is told in "La Araucana," that 

 epic of Ercilla's, the Spanish warrior- 

 poet, who met these Indians on the battle- 

 field in sixteenth-century wars. His 

 mighty heroes, Caupolican and Lautaro, 

 were real men. The one was put to 



