Identifier: aroundaboutsouth00vinc (find matches)
Title: Around and about South America
Year: 1895 (1890s)
Authors: Vincent, Frank, 1848- (from old catalog)
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Publisher: New York, D. Appleton & company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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lor—our fellow-passenger—has a large grain and cat-tle estate near Puno, and there we were courteously invitedto stop and partake of an off-hand lunch. We were all suf-fering more or less from the rarefaction of the air, but a lit-tle walk and a glass of wine proved a rapid restorer. Theentire front of the counselors farm-house was ornamentedwith a row of stuffed yellow foxes, with a superb pair of 80 AROUND AND ABOUT SOUTH AMERICA. condors over the entrance. To us the effect was very funny,hut the destruction of grain by the foxes was not nearly sofunny to our host. As we proceeded, we passed betweentwo of the highest lakes in South America—Saracocha, thir-teen thousand six hundred feet, and Cachipuscana, thirteenthousand five hundred and eighty-five feet, above the sea.These are small but very deep lakes. I did not notice anynative craft upon them. The highest point on the railroad—fourteen thousand six hundred and sixty-six feet—is abouthalf-way between Arequipa and Puno.
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Silver Head from an Inca Cemetery. CHAPTEK X. THE ACME OF STEAMER NAVIGATION. Puno is a small town lying in a semicircular valley, witha very prominent and imposing cathedral, but there is noth-ing else to detain the traveler. Puno and Cuzco, the oldInca capital, two hundred and seven miles distant, are beingconnected by railway, and eighty-two miles have now beenbuilt and are in running order. Mr. Thorndike showed mein Lima a rare and interesting curiosity taken from one ofthe old Huacas del Inca, or Incarial cemeteries, near Cuzco.It was a solid, pure silver statuette—a human head and bust—eight inches in height, and weighing eleven pounds. Thehead was decidedly Homeric in aspect, but wore a sort ofPersian cap, surmounted by a large, radiating sun. Themolding and carving of the sun in such a position would ap-pear to indicate a Persian origin, and thus again support thetheory of trans-Pacific migration. These facts were calledto mind by hearing that a limited liability company h

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