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Title: 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
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Bingham, Hiram, 1875-1956
Subjects: South America -- Description and travel
Publisher: Boston, New York : Houghton Mifflin Company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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garchway, attracted by some beautiful clay jars, andfound ourselves in a backyard that would havedelighted a painter. Not all painters, but the kindthat loves a natural combination of picturesqueruins, fine old jars tumbled about helter-skelter,dirty little Indian children in dirtier hats and pon-chos, very much too big for them, a cat, and a long-legged pig who nosed about among the jars tryingto see which one contained chicha fit to gratify histhirst. From the tower of one of the oldest churches wesecured a splendid view of the city and the surround-ing country including nearly the entire region occu-pied by the forces of Sucre and La Serna in the weekpreceding the final battle of Ayacucho. The old name of Ayacucho was Guamanga, whichis said to have been a Spanish adaptation of theInca Huaman-ca (Take it. Falcon), a name that wasgiven to the district by an incident that followed afierce battle in which a warlike tribe of this vicinitywas defeated and almost annihilated by the armies
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