text:  The new-comers were grouped around something which they seemed to be dragging along the ground; several women--for the most part young and graceful creatures their slender supple forms muffled in the flowing picturesque _reboxos_ and _frazadas_--preceded the party looking back occasionally with an expression of mingled horror and triumph; all with rosaries in their hands the beads of which ran rapidly through their fingers while they occasionally kissed the cross or made the sign on their breasts or in the air