LOVERS OF ONIONS
There is an interesting reference to onions, which have lately boon much in the news, in A. Hyatt Verril's "Wonder Plants and Plant Wonders." published in America last year; "Sam. my camp boy." ho writes "preparing dinner surrounded by the women of a primitive Indian tribe in South. America, tossed aside some onion peel. The women scrambled for bits of it and smeared it over their faces and naked bodies. I was short of trade goods: and this gave me an idea. I began exchange bits of onion for weapons, musical instruments, featherwork. and jaguar-teeth necklaces. Wc found garlic even more popular. Those Indians would have given anything they owned for a mere fragment. Had I possessed a few pounds I could have purchased the entire village—including the feminine population."
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 February 1941, Page 8
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