Under the Southern cross in South America . s were offering Panama hats and haggling over prices. Wtmet many water-carriers going from house to house along the dustystreets; they do not carry the water themselves but load it in littlekegs on the backs of mules. They had such a primitive appearancethat they looked as though Pizarro himself might have employedthem. The water is brought a distance of twenty-fi\e miles from afertile inland valley. In the region of Payta it is said rain falls only once in fourteenyears, but some maintain it never rains at all, and I am inclinedto endorse them. In f
Under the Southern cross in South America . s were offering Panama hats and haggling over prices. Wtmet many water-carriers going from house to house along the dustystreets; they do not carry the water themselves but load it in littlekegs on the backs of mules. They had such a primitive appearancethat they looked as though Pizarro himself might have employedthem. The water is brought a distance of twenty-fi\e miles from afertile inland valley. In the region of Payta it is said rain falls only once in fourteenyears, but some maintain it never rains at all, and I am inclinedto endorse them. In fact I Ijclieve that rain never falls on anypart of the whole Peruvian littoral. Our steamer ran parallel withthe shore all the way and we saw no indication whatever of moist-ure—nothing but sand, nitrates and guano, and higher up barrenrocks, unlike the Ecuador coast where, at the same altitude, thereis exuberant vegetation. Of course in little intervening valleyspatches of rice and sugar-cane grow, but these patches are not onthe DRIED FISH MARKET, PAYTA
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