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Title: The American Egypt : a record of travel in Yucatan
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Arnold, Channing Frost, Frederick J. Tabor
Subjects: Mayas Yucatán (Mexico : State) -- Description and travel Yucatán (Mexico : State) -- Antiquities
Publisher: London Hutchinson & Co.
Contributing Library: Brown University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brown University

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ull-fightwill, and to those two or three towns where fights are annualfixtures thousands flock in from miles around. Tizimin issuch a place. At the fiesta held while we were there no lessthan thirty thousand people collected. It is the love ofblood which really attracts, and a fight is successful or notaccording to the number of animals slain. In the seven daysat Tizimin fifty bulls died. It is really mere clumsy brutalslaughter, for the creatures are undersized steers as a rule,with about as much fight in them as an English cow. Theyoung bloods of Yucatan are fond of improvising these bullockbaitings ; and one showed us with pride a scar on his wrist,a memento of a fight two or three days earlier. It was justsuch a scratch as a child would get while out blackberrying. As we wrote in an earlier chapter, so complete is the isolationof the two sexes publicly, that the casual visitor would concludethat the Yucatecans were a most moral race. You never see £ \ ,;, mm? % HACIENDA CHILDREN.
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NDEPENDENT INDIANS P. 356) YUCATAN AS IT IS TO-DAY 357 youths and girls walking together. Such a sight as HydePark, for instance, presents on a summer evening, a couple,sometimes two, on each seat, carrying on a passionate court-ship, regardless of the passers, you would never see in Yucatanif you lived there fifty years. More than that : you neversee a husband out with a wife. An American who had knownthe country for ten years told us that he had never seen ayoung fellow and girl walking together in the evening. Ofcourse, the richest girls never walk at all; and their loversare found for them. The poorer maidens find their own ata precociously early age. If trouble results, the lover can adoptone of three courses. He can marry the girl; pay a fine of fivehundred dollars to her father ; or go to prison for five years.These Draconian rules obviate our degrading system of affilia-tion summonses. The utmost cynicism prevails in all sexquestions, and it would probably be hard to find a Yu

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