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 . C D. < TFiK IKillL BOMBON TO AYACUCHO 347 under which sat the old men around a table onwhich was scattered popcorn, roast maize, anddishes of succotash. The other men and womensquatted on the ground with dishes of succotashand bowls of chicha in front of them. As long as welooked on, all was orderly and quiet except that twomusicians with a violin and a primitive old harpwere endeavoring to cheer them up. Soon after dark, in a pouring rain, we
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 . C D. < TFiK IKillL BOMBON TO AYACUCHO 347 under which sat the old men around a table onwhich was scattered popcorn, roast maize, anddishes of succotash. The other men and womensquatted on the ground with dishes of succotashand bowls of chicha in front of them. As long as welooked on, all was orderly and quiet except that twomusicians with a violin and a primitive old harpwere endeavoring to cheer them up. Soon after dark, in a pouring rain, we passed thehigh walls of the Ayacucho cemetery, clattered overthe cobble-stones of the narrow streets, entered theplaza, and were ushered with a flourish through astone arch into the courtyard of the hotel. Actingon the orders of the Prefect, the proprietor had re-served for our use an enormous parlor or receptionroom where at least forty people could be comfort-ably seated, and a great bedroom of nearly the samedimensions in which were four large the attractiveness of the hotelbedsteads, such is the perversity of human na
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