Across South America; an account of a journey from Buenos Aires to Lima by way of Potosí, with notes on Brazil, Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, and Peru . SACSAHUAMAN 279 watch games and religious festivals. It offers anattractive field for digging, as it seems to have beenentirely overlooked hitherto. On our way back to the city we were invited torest at Sr. Lomellinis country house which is builtin the gardens of Manco Capac, the first Inca. Theentrance is through a gate in the wall of the ancientouter terrace. Near the house stands a section ofthe palace wall, thirty feet long and ten feet high,
Across South America; an account of a journey from Buenos Aires to Lima by way of Potosí, with notes on Brazil, Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, and Peru . SACSAHUAMAN 279 watch games and religious festivals. It offers anattractive field for digging, as it seems to have beenentirely overlooked hitherto. On our way back to the city we were invited torest at Sr. Lomellinis country house which is builtin the gardens of Manco Capac, the first Inca. Theentrance is through a gate in the wall of the ancientouter terrace. Near the house stands a section ofthe palace wall, thirty feet long and ten feet high,containing a recessed door and window. In the outerterrace the stones are of irregular shapes while inthis wall they are practically rectangular. In hishouse, Sr. Lomellini has collected a number ofextremely interesting specimens of the ceramic artof the Incas. The most striking are two very largevases resembling in shape and marking the smallone figured here. This is only six inches high; thoseare nearly three feet. There are quite a number ofimperfect specimens in the American Museum ofNatural History. After the gardener had given us a handf
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