File:One way round South America, from manuscript, notes and letters of Delight Sweetser Prentiss illustrated from photographs (1905) (14578589068).jpg

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Title: One way round South America, from manuscript, notes and letters of Delight Sweetser Prentiss ... illustrated from photographs
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Prentiss, Delight Sweetser. (from old catalog)
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Publisher: Indianapolis, The Bobbs-Merrill company
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cattered houses along the way have noroofs, only bamboo screens to shut out the sunabove, the only intruder from that direction,never any rain or mist. The blank adobe wallshave occasional doors, and if there is anythingof beauty or cheer in the place, it is kept for thepatios. Even the verdure, that owes its exist-ence to irrigation, is rather painful to see. Itsuggests a precarious struggle for life on the partof the growing things, and the desolate dust asdry as a bone intrudes everywhere! And thepeople, bless me, what a strange collection! Afew well-to-do, well-brushed and attractive menamong the nondescript people, wearing the finely-woven, broad-brimmed Panama hats, which, bythe way, come principally from Guayaquil.Youll not find any Panama hats in Panama,some one said to me! Isnt it strange how per-sistently an article of commerce will take thename of a place it does not come from? MostIndia rubber comes from Brazil, most Peruvianbark from Bolivia, most Panama hats from Ecua- ^
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ON THE PACIFIC 125 dor, and so on through the list. We are becom-ing accustomed to the many-shaded complexionsof the South Americans, but it is especially curi-ous to note the traces of Indian blood among thecommon people of the region, just as we notedthe features of the negroes in many lighter-skinned folk on the east coast, but Peru reservesstill another surprise. In Pisco a funny little fatyoungster about three years old came up to meand stood staring at me with wide-open eyes.I was quite as much of a curiosity to him as he tome, and that turn of affairs always amuses me.This urchin stood gazing at me as if fascinated,and as I looked down at him good-humoredly, myglance taking in his round, brown face and littleblack eyes, I suddenly gave a start. Where hadI seen before such features, such beady, black,slanting eyes? In Chinese babies, as I live, no-where else! Yes, if you will believe it, my smalladmirer or my critic, I shall never know which,had a mixture of Chinese and negro bl

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