Identifier: twoyearsinperuwi01hutc (find matches)
Title: Two years in Peru : with exploration of its antiquities
Year: 1873 (1870s)
Authors: Hutchinson, Thomas Joseph, b. 1820
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Publisher: London : S. Low, Marston, Low, (and) Searle
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
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f guano. Onthe rocks hereabouts, bounding the coast, is some-thing white, presenting the semblance of hoarfrost, but which I am told is pearlash. PastQuilca,* twenty-five miles from Mollendo—a smallgreen bight being the only part visible adjoiningthe shore, and from whence olives, oil, andwine are exported. This place suffered muchfrom the earthquake of 1868. From Quilca,after a voyage of 119 miles, we have a look atChala—another of these small ports whereat thePacific Companys steamers call—also producingwine, olives, and wool. Chala has a church withsome houses, all of the same colour as the rock ^ Mr. Markhani tells us this was the port of Arequipa till theyear 1827, when it was supplaftted by Islay. It is mentionedin the same character by Pedro de Cieza de Leon, but the greatrivers of which he speaks as being here have dried up.—Op. cit.p. 205. 104 TWO YEAES IN PERU. (CHAP. VII. on which they are perched. The population is saidto be near 200. About thirty-five miles beyond
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STONE IDOL AND WATER-rOTS FOUND 62 FEET UNDER GUANO, Chala we pass Loma, from which the principalexports are cotton and sugar. Then, not muchfarther on, steaming inside of the Chincha Islands,anchor is cast in the roadstead of Pisco. Long, long time before the birds and seals beganto accumulate guano on these Chincha Islands—indeed, so long that, on looking at the illustrationssubjoined, I am almost afraid to guess—theChincha people must have held sway down here.How many thousand yerfi^s may have passed—ina case like this it is nonsense to talk of hundreds—since that stone idol was made and worshij)ped CHAI. VII.J ANTlCiUlTY OF IDOLS. 105 before it got by desiij^n or iicci(l(5iii- in ;i poHitionthat the daily (lroi);)in<j^s of birds and hc^uIh coveredit to a (hj)lh of sixty-two feet?^ Jlow many

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