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 . imitation and was made in greatquantities in Manchester, England. These Qui-chuas are a humble folk, excessively polite to eachother, doffing their hats whenever they meet. Bothmen and women wore their hair in long braids downtheir backs. The little village sprawled up the side of the canonjust out of reach of the floods which occasionallypour through this valley in the rainy season. In oneof the huts a kind of spring carnival was being cele-brat
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 . imitation and was made in greatquantities in Manchester, England. These Qui-chuas are a humble folk, excessively polite to eachother, doffing their hats whenever they meet. Bothmen and women wore their hair in long braids downtheir backs. The little village sprawled up the side of the canonjust out of reach of the floods which occasionallypour through this valley in the rainy season. In oneof the huts a kind of spring carnival was being cele-brated with a reasonable amount of drinking. Sol-emn singing and a monotonous tom-tomming of aprimitive drum were the only signs of gaiety excepta few bright flowers which they had gathered some-where and put in their hair. As no rain was to beexpected and the village had the usual componentof filth and insects, we set up our folding cots in thedry bed of the stream. The elevation was about tenthousand feet. The stars were very brilliant. Thenight was cool, the minimum temperature being 47°P., a drop of forty degrees from the afternoons TUPIZA TO COTAGAITA 99 The next morning, after a breakfast of cold chickenand Enos fruit salts, all that our Boer War veterancould provide for our comfort, we pushed up the val-ley, and before long reached Totora, a typical Boli-vian poste or tambo. It consisted of a small inclos-ure surrounded by half a dozen low mud-huts with-out windows. In one of these was kept alfalfa fodderto be sold to passing travellers. In another lived thekeeper of the poste and his family. Here also was afire from which one had the right to demand hotwater, the only thing furnished for the comfort ofhumans. In another, two or three well-bakedmounds of earth, flattened on top, were intended forbeds. A roof, an earth floor, and a wooden door werethe only other conveniences at the disposition oftravellers. These pastes, more or less dirty and uncomfort-able, may
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