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 . by Indianwomen from the Andes of Colombia to those ofChile, and one rarely sees a woman tending sheep orwalking along the high road who is not busily en-gaged in using this old-fashioned spindle. In thetombs of Pachacamac near Lima have been foundspindles still fitted with similar whirlbobs of stone. The third group of buildings is higher up on thespur, a hundred feet or more above the secondgroup. Near the path from the lower to the upperplaza a
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 . by Indianwomen from the Andes of Colombia to those ofChile, and one rarely sees a woman tending sheep orwalking along the high road who is not busily en-gaged in using this old-fashioned spindle. In thetombs of Pachacamac near Lima have been foundspindles still fitted with similar whirlbobs of stone. The third group of buildings is higher up on thespur, a hundred feet or more above the secondgroup. Near the path from the lower to the upperplaza are the remains of a little azequia or water-course, now dry, lined with flat stones. The south-east corner of the third group is marked by a hugeprojecting rock twenty feet high and twelve orfifteen feet in diameter. Beside it, facing the easternslope, is a giant stairway. It consists of fourteengreat steps roughly made and of varying dimen-sions. They average about fifteen feet wide, withrisers four and a half feet high and treads about sixand a half feet deep. It is possible to ascend thesestairs by means of small stone steps erected on one.
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