“Bolivia is rich,” a Tacana Indian woman told me last week inside Madidi National Park. Earlier in the day, we’d witnessed a hundred capuchin and squirrel monkeys rush down from the Amazon jungle canopy and were now relaxing beside Lake Chalalan while her cousin, a shaman, blessed coca leaves as the evening’s traditional drumming and dancing began.
上周在马迪迪国家公园，一位对我说：“玻利维亚是片富饶的土地。” 那天一早，我们就看见了上百只僧帽猴和松鼠猴从亚马逊遮天蔽日的丛林中一路冲下来，跑到查拉澜湖（Lake Chalalan）边休憩，而那位特迦拿印第安妇女的萨满表姐，在夜幕降临，传统鼓声响起、人们又开始跳舞的时候，虔诚地颂扬着神圣的古柯叶。