 | Francisco Tomás Hermenegildo Garcés, Elliott Coues - 1900 - 336 pages
...for example the Christian and heathen practice of praying for rain. The Rudo Ensayo, p. 173, says: ''The Opatas had retained, until lately, among others...Fathers in spite of the secrecy with which it was POINT II. Amities and Enmities. At the present time * we must suppose at peace all the nations which... | |
 | Francisco Tomás Hermenegildo Garcés - 1900 - 332 pages
...for example the Christian and heathen practice of praying for rain. The Rudo Ensayo, p. 173, says: "The Opatas had retained, until lately, among others...Fathers in spite of the secrecy with which it was POINT II. Amities and Enmities. At the present time 5 we must suppose at peace all the nations which... | |
 | 1904 - 854 pages
...fraternization of the Opatas and the Spanish. The "double rate '' is not mentioned. * Kudo Ensayo, pp. 86-87. who consisted of old men and women, making a noise with hollow gourds, sticks and bones." ' In addition the Opatas have numerous nominally Catholic fiestas, of which drinking seems to be the... | |
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The Opatas had retained, until lately, among others a very curious custom. A number of girls, dressed in white or simply wearing a chemise, would come out at night to dance in a place previously well swept and embellished, leaving behind them, in the... 