Word: choco
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Dates: during 1933-1933
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...discussion in your issue of Jan. 23 on pp. 28 & 30 of "The Bank of England God" has greatly aroused my interest, as I am familiar to some small degree with the regions inhabited by the San Blas and Choco Indians of Panama. While I would by no means take exception to the opinions of such eminent authorities as the scientists of the Smithsonian Institution referred to in your article, there are one or two points in the final paragraph of the account which invite comment...
...cult of the Bank of England's deified founder still flourishes among the Indians of the Isthmus of Panama, the Smithsonian Institution reported last week. The Choco Indians of Colombia have recently adopted the cult...
Along the Panama coast he left his impress. There still is a Caledonia Bay and a Puerto Escocés. The San Blas Indians occasionally breed a blond child. When the San Blas and Choco medicine men want to carve a really imposing fetish on a medicine cane, they give long-nosed William Paterson a waistcoat, shirt, necktie, collar, buttons, striped trousers, paint his coat black or green...