The desert here is a ruler-edge sheet of mute brown dirt, studded with the occasional spiky yuccatree, and goes on and on and on, much in the same interminable way as a pub bore.
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The Matsigenka hunt for monkeys and parrots, grow yucca and bananas, and build houses that they roof with the leaves of a particular kind of palm tree, known as a kapashi.