{"date":"July 24","id":"07-24","intro":["Darwin visited a South American city ruined by an earthquake. There he heard the superstitious account of the phenomenon. The ignorant people accused Indian women of bewitching the volcano. But Darwin has another explanation."],"minutes":22,"readings":[{"author":"Charles Darwin","end":316,"start":306,"volume":29,"work":"The Voyage of the Beagle"}],"slug":"july-24","status":"proofread","title":"Indian Sorcery Blamed for an Earthquake","url":"/harvard-classics/july-24/","words":4388}