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32 BARBAROUS MEXICO large corn tortillas, the bread of the poor of Mexico, a cup of boiled beans, unflavored, and a bowl of fish— putrid, stinking fish, fish that reeked with an odor that stuck in my system for days. How could they ever eat it? Au, well, to vary a weary, unending row of meals consisting of only beans and tortillas a time must come when the most refined palate will water to the touch of something different, though that something is fish which offends the heavens with its rottenness. "Beans, tortillas, fish! " I suppose that they can at least keep alive on it," I told myself, "provided they do no worse at the other two meals." "By the way," I turned to the adminstrador, who was showing us about, "what do they get at the other two meals?" "The other two meals?" The administrador was puzzled. "The other two meals? Why, there aren't any others. This is the only meal they have!?' Beans, tortillas, fish, once a day, and a dozen hours under the hottest sun that ever shone! "But, no," the administrador corrected himself. "They do get something else, something very fine, too, something that they can carry to the field with them and eat when they wish. Here is one now." At this he picked up from one of the tables of the women a something about the size of his two small fists, and handed it to me, triumphantly. I took the round, soggy mass in my fingers, pinched, smelled and tasted it. It proved to be corn dough, half fermented and patted into a ball. This, then, was the other two meals, the rest of the substance besides beans, tortillas and decayed fish which sustained the toilers throughout the long day. I turned to a young Maya who was carefully picking a fish bone.
THE SLAVES OF YUCATAN 33 "\Vhich would you rather be," I asked of him, 'a half-timer or a full-tinier?" "A full-timer," he replied, promptly, and then in a lower tone: "They work us until we are ready to fall, then they throw us away to get strong again. If they worked the full-timers like they work us they would die." "We come to work gladly," said another young Maya. "because we're starved to it. But before the end of the first week we want to run away. That is why they lock us up at night." "Why don't you run away when you're free to do it?" I asked. "\Vhen they turn you out, I mean?" The administrador had stepped away to scold a woman. "It's no use," answered the man earnestly. "They always get us. Everybody is against us and there is no place to hide." "They keep our faces on photographs," said another. "They always get us and give us a cleaning-up (beating) besides. When we're here we want to run away, but when they turn us out we know that it's no use." I was afterwards to learn how admirably the Yucatan country is adapted to preventing the escape of runaways. No fruits or eatable herbs grow wild in that rocky land. There are no springs and no place where a person can dig a well without a rock drill and dynamite. So every runaway in time finds his way to a plantation or to the city, and at either place he is caught and held for identification. A free laborer who does not carry papers to prove that he is free is always liable to be locked tip and put to niucli trouble to prove that he is not a runaway slave. Yucatan has been compared to Russia's Siberia. "Siberia," Mexican political refugees have told me, "is hell
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THE CONTRACT SLAVES OF VALLE NACION
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CHAPTER VII THE DIAZ SYSTEM The sla
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128 BARBAROUS MEXICO Pablo Escandon
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130 BRBAROUS MEXICO personality who
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136 BARBAROUS MEXICO division of Me
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CHAPTER VIII REPRESSIVE ELEMENTS OF
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CHAPTER X THE EIGHTH UNANIMOUS ELEC
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CHAPTER XVI DIAZ HIMSELF "But Diaz
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