In the jungle village of Itacuarare live gentle, simple folk who gather herbs and mate in the forests, do a little innocent smuggling across the nearby Brazilian border and often wag their heads over the legend of Pacifico Batista. Fifteen years ago handsome young Pacifico quarreled with his dark-eyed Itacuarare sweetheart, disappeared into the jungle and was seen no more.
One day last fortnight an old crone of the village, picking herbs in the jungle, got the shock of her life. Out of a tree leaped a wild, apelike figure. Its skin looked like...
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