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bowl and a black copper teapot. After we passed them,
they kept running to overtake us, and seemed determined
to keep with us. Five or six miles out, they sat down to wait,
while I walked up a precarious path in the gorge. On my
return, they offered me a refreshing drink of curdled milk
and water, and some apricots. By order of the headman
those two men walked ten or twelve miles in the hot sun to
render this small service. The next day, when I left Pujiya,
the two men shown opposite page 150 suddenly appeared
in the desert six or eight miles from the village, and began to
run before us. One balanced on the tips of the fingers of
his left hand a wooden bowl of the inevitable sour milk,
which, by the way, most travelers find both wholesome
and palatable, when once they learn to use it. In his right he
held a teapot filled with water, a china bowl, and a wooden
spoon. The other bore in either hand a platter of apricots
and of mulberries. They had been ordered to run a mile
or two farther in the hot summer sun to the top of a pass.
We stopped, however, as soon as we found some shade at
the foot of a cliff. In both these cases, two men had been
detailed to do what could have been done by only one or
by my guide. The prevalence of such needlessly courteous
customs would be impossible if a low standard of living and
cheap food did not give the people abundant leisure, and
if the Chantos were not so abjectly submissive to every
form of authority.
The submissiveness of the Chantos is largely the result
of cowardice, and this in turn is probably due in great
measure to their isolation by mountains and deserts. The
untraveled headman at Pujiya trembled visibly when he
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