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Again the speaker scattered yellow meal in front of the principal penitent, who only bowed in a dignified manner in response. When each of them had resumed his seat, the Hishtanyi Chayan turned to the tapop and looked inquiringly. Hoshkanyi Tihua assumed an air of solemn importance, for he was to play a prominent rôle.
His eyes were dim, and he received the greetings of his visitors with an air of indifference or timidity; it was difficult to determine which. Pointing to the floor he said, "What brings you to my house, children!" and he coughed a hollow, hectic cough. The tapop began, "We wish " "Do not say we," the maseua corrected him, "you wish, not I." Hoshkanyi bit his lips and began anew,
At the time of which we are speaking, the chief civil officer of the tribe at the Rito, its tapop, or as he is now called, governor, was an Indian whose name was Hoshkanyi Tihua. Hoshkanyi Tihua was a man of small stature; his head was nearly round, or rather pear-shaped, for the lower jaw appeared to be broader than the forehead.
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