Crossword-Solution: CHARO 5 letters, 102 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 10

Species of the pheasant and partridge are not uncommon, and the "guácharo" (_Steatornis caripensis_), once believed to inhabit Venezuela only, is found in Ecuador also.

For instance, _Una-charo_, a man's name, means "Sprinkled-ashes," and _Yei-Ainu_, "Dangerous Ainu," &c.; and _Korunke_, a woman's name, means "Ice-eater;" _Reoback_, "Who burst three times," and so on, each person having a different name, which is nothing more than a nick-name.

The walls are of _charo_—a kind of poor relative of the bamboo—lashed to a slender framework of the same material by split strips of the _mora_, the typical hut of the tropical frontier.

All cooking is done at one end over an open fire, the smoke escaping as best it may through the interstices between the layers of charo.

Once—and it gave them delirious pleasure for a whole night—they set fire to an island of _charo_, the cane from which the walls of their shacks are made, and all through the darkness it crackled and burst in little explosions, as though a nervous picket-line were protecting our flank.