Field journal of Heller December 1915 to February 1916
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19) In the afternoon I went with Erdo to the Bull fight. The affair started at 3:30 with a good sized crowd of men! I saw only 2 or 3 women of the upper class there and also only a dozen or so of the Indians or Cholos. Apparently it is a masculine affair here. Six bullsmen killed but none of them by a single thrust, several by many repeated stabs. The bandeireros showed much skill in placing the bandeiras in the middles of the bull. Some 4 horses were killed, one by a heart thrust from the bull & another by having its entrails ripped out. The cruelty of the feature was amazing. The horses were blindfolded +