Across the Andes . gest even a remote relation to any of 188 ACROSS THE ANDES the tribes with whom I had come in contact upto that time, or, for that matter, with any ofthose that I subsequently met. To begin with,the Leccos looked clean—a condition that oneseldom finds in the Quichua or Aymara nations;although cleanliness is almost an invariable con-dition of all river peoples. Their complexionwas of the soft, warm brown of the Hindu orthe Filipino, having no suggestion of the dullchocolate of the negro or the weather-beatencopper of the Aymaras or of our own WesternIndians. Their features ag
Across the Andes . gest even a remote relation to any of 188 ACROSS THE ANDES the tribes with whom I had come in contact upto that time, or, for that matter, with any ofthose that I subsequently met. To begin with,the Leccos looked clean—a condition that oneseldom finds in the Quichua or Aymara nations;although cleanliness is almost an invariable con-dition of all river peoples. Their complexionwas of the soft, warm brown of the Hindu orthe Filipino, having no suggestion of the dullchocolate of the negro or the weather-beatencopper of the Aymaras or of our own WesternIndians. Their features again are decidedly Malay-sian—straight high nose with thin nostrils; fore-head fairly high and wellshaped; finely cut thin lips,and the narrow, though notslanting eyes of the hair is oily jet-black,thick, and grows to a pointon the forehead, in the stylemade known by Aguinaldo,and is kept neatly cut in astraight, bristly do not care for theNAPOLBON A wcco cHiBF. g^udy fcathcr head-dresses.
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