. The Andes and the Amazon :|bor across the continent of South America. Aymard Woman, Pano. (From a Photograph.) face.* After a free mixture for three hundred years,we would expect a complete fusion of both Aymaras andQuichuas with their conquerors; but they still maintaintheir integrity, and outnumber the Cholos. Evidently thelatter are not prolific. The Aymaras have no great vices. Like the Quichuas, * None of the South American tribes have the coppery hue of the NorthAmericans. The Aymaeas. 461 they are grave, and deferential to caballeros—always re-moving the hat vi^hen met on the highway.
. The Andes and the Amazon :|bor across the continent of South America. Aymard Woman, Pano. (From a Photograph.) face.* After a free mixture for three hundred years,we would expect a complete fusion of both Aymaras andQuichuas with their conquerors; but they still maintaintheir integrity, and outnumber the Cholos. Evidently thelatter are not prolific. The Aymaras have no great vices. Like the Quichuas, * None of the South American tribes have the coppery hue of the NorthAmericans. The Aymaeas. 461 they are grave, and deferential to caballeros—always re-moving the hat vi^hen met on the highway. They alsodress similarly: the men with a broad-brim over a skull-cap, a poncho of llama-wool (natural color), short trousers,and hide sandals; the women with a short gown, blue,brown, or black, and a shawl {manta) of fine wool butcoarse texture, pinned with a large, spoon-shaped Aymara MeD,-Puno. (Prom a Photograph.) But the head - gear of the women is most extraordinary,and, after the cathedral, the most conspicuous object inPuno. It is of black cloth, lined with red, on a paste-board frame, expanding at the top, from which flaps andtinsel hang down. The Aymara is one of the most gut-tural languages in the world, and peculiar also in its la-bial and dental pronunciation; but it is very expressive 462 The Andes and the Amazons. and precise. Paz Soldan calls it as sonorous as theSpanish and eneigetic and laconic as the English. The valley of the Amazons is probably the most thinly-peopled region on the globe, save the great deserts and thepolar zones. There are not 40,000 souls along the banksof the rivers in the whole province of Amazonas and theLower Maranon. Many of the towns marked on the mapsdo not exist, or are represented by a solitary palm-hut. Thevisible population is almost confined to the circumferenceof the valley; as at Para, near the mouth of the
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