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Updated: May 28, 2025
The native women, even the white and half-caste inhabitants of the towns, attach a superstitious value to the skin and feathers of the Uira-para, believing that if they keep them in their clothes' chest, the relics will have the effect of attracting for the happy possessors a train of lovers and followers.
They have supplied their want of knowledge, in the usual way of half-civilised people, by a theory which has degenerated into a myth, to the effect that the onward moving bands are led by a little grey bird, called the Uira-para, which fascinates all the rest, and leads them a weary dance through the thickets.
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