Two years in Peru : with exploration of its antiquities . r a while to the stately-lookingfarm-house of Senor Paz Soldan. This is calledthe Cliacra of Conde de San Isidro, after its formerSpanish owner. It consists of a large house, witha lofty square tower, a great extent of out-houses,a yard, and a spacious garden, with a consider-able-sized orchard of olive-trees on its southern 294 TWO YEAKS TN TEIiU. [ CHAP. XIV, side. In the principal sala is a painting of SanIsidro, represented in a * My-namc-is-Norval! style of attitude, and a roll of paper in one is dressed in a green frock-co
Two years in Peru : with exploration of its antiquities . r a while to the stately-lookingfarm-house of Senor Paz Soldan. This is calledthe Cliacra of Conde de San Isidro, after its formerSpanish owner. It consists of a large house, witha lofty square tower, a great extent of out-houses,a yard, and a spacious garden, with a consider-able-sized orchard of olive-trees on its southern 294 TWO YEAKS TN TEIiU. [ CHAP. XIV, side. In the principal sala is a painting of SanIsidro, represented in a * My-namc-is-Norval! style of attitude, and a roll of paper in one is dressed in a green frock-coat, fastenedround the waist by a strap, and, if I were nottold otherwise, would take bim for a Frenchpost-boy. On the right side is a pair of oxenploughing,—driven by a winged seraph, havinga garter on one leg, and the other naked. Thispicture did not at all chime in with the winglessCholos whom I saw, not driving, but seeminglydrawn along by some bullocks that were plongh-ing in a neighbouring field. But San Isidro wasthe patron saint of ^ SUGAR LOAF IIUACA (SAN ISIDKO). In front of Senor Soldans house, that is tosay between it and the Ocean, and at the dis-tance of al)out a quarter of a mile (as wo havea detour to mak(^), is one of tlie real huacas, ciiAr. \i\.| i;\ii,(>uiN(j Ilii: si;(i \i:-i,n\i miACA. 205 ()!• 1)iiii;il-m()iiii(ls, callcil ilic |;iii (\r Aziicar (orsii«^:ir-l(), IVom lis sIi}1|m. I li:i(l previouslyb(»oii itifoniKMl by Sciior Kniiiiondy of liisluivin^mi;hI(» consi(l(i;il)lo cxplonitioiis of (his iiiouiid,and lindin<^ nollniii^ in if hut bodies ol* orcbiuiryfisluriucii, reHcs of nets, and somo iiifeiiorspocimoiis of ])otkMy. If(^ Hkowiso told mothat it was nW coiistnictcMl of layers of looseoartli ovcM layers of bodies—wljeiico lie in-ferred that all the liuacas, or mounds, in theIlnatica valley were of a similar nature. On myfirst visit, Senor Soldan, junior, was kind enoughto furnish me with a man, as well as the loan ofpi
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