One Hundred Years of Solitude

Guajiro Indian woman who
had arrived in town with a
brother in flight from a
plague of insomnia that had
been scourging their tribe for
several years. They were both
so docile and willing to help
that Úrsula took them on to
help her with her household
chores. That was how
Arcadio and Amaranta came
to speak the Guajiro language
before Spanish, and they
learned to drink lizard broth