Two years in Peru : with exploration of its antiquities . u. They have all afamily likeness in the hats, the large-lobed ears,and the half-pike, half-halberd-looking symbol ofauthority clutched in the hand. I had passedthem by many times, and, after several casualglances, was impressed wdth the idea, that I had,some time or another, seen them before I came VOL. I. T 322 TWO YEAKS IN TERU. [CHAP. XV. to Peru. When one clay scrutinizing moreminutely, I at one recognized the models of thevignettes of our ancient English kings—theWilliams, Richards, Edwards, and Henrys—thatwere put at the headings
Two years in Peru : with exploration of its antiquities . u. They have all afamily likeness in the hats, the large-lobed ears,and the half-pike, half-halberd-looking symbol ofauthority clutched in the hand. I had passedthem by many times, and, after several casualglances, was impressed wdth the idea, that I had,some time or another, seen them before I came VOL. I. T 322 TWO YEAKS IN TERU. [CHAP. XV. to Peru. When one clay scrutinizing moreminutely, I at one recognized the models of thevignettes of our ancient English kings—theWilliams, Richards, Edwards, and Henrys—thatwere put at the headings of the chapters de-scriptive of their reigns in Goldsmiths Historyof England. Take off the big ears—which, bythe way, the coast tribes cultivated long beforethe Inca period—dock off a feather or two hereand there, and you have the Anglo-Saxon monarchsof our school-boy days doing duty at the presenttime for the Incas of Peru—the first of whomdates only as far back as the time of William theConqueror. Of the hospitals in Lima I cannot speak too.
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