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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
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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swho can thus get warmed and fed at the same time.( The Quichua garments are of every possible hue,although red predominates. The women dress ininnumerable petticoats of many-colored materialsand wear warm, heavy, colored shawls, brought to-gether over the shoulders and secured with two largepins, occasionally of handsome workmanship, butmore often in the shape of spoons. Generally theyare content with uninteresting felt hats, but now andthen one will have a specimen of a different design,the principal material of which is black velveteen,ornamented with red worsted and colored beads. Ontheir feet the women usually wear the simplest kindof rawhide sandals, although when they can afford it,they affect an extraordinary footgear, a sandal witha French heel an inch and a half high, and shod witha leather device resembling a horse shoe. Near the market-place is an interesting old church,its twin towers still in good repair. Services arerarely held here, and it was with some difficulty that
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POTOSI 129 we succeeded in finding the sexton, who finallybrought a large key and allowed us to see the histori-cal pictures that hang on the walls of two of thechapels. They are of considerable interest and ap-peared to date from the sixteenth century. We com-mented on the fact that a large painting had re-cently been removed and were regaled with a storyof how a foreign millionaire had bribed some prelateor other to sell him the treasured relic! In the eighteenth century Potosi boasted of sixtychurches but of these considerably more than halfare now in ruins. The ruined portion of the city liesprincipally to the east and south. A few stronglybuilt churches or church towers are still standingamid the remains of buildings that have tumbleddown in heaps. Several of the old convents and monasteries, how-ever, are still in a flourishing condition. To us thechief interest consisted of their collections of fine oldpaintings and their beautiful flowers. Nothing wasmore refreshing in this mo

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