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Identifier: outing48newy (find matches)
Title: Outing
Year: 1885 (1880s)
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Subjects: Leisure Sports Travel
Publisher: (New York : Outing Pub. Co.)
Contributing Library: Tisch Library
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The Cholas dress in paudy shawls and jewelry, with the omnipresentbundle held on their backs by vari-colored fajas. ON THE ROAD TO QUAINT LA PAZ BY W. T. BURRES, M.D. COPYRIGHT PHOTOGRAPHS BY THE AUTHOR COMPARATIVELY few travelersreach the plateaus of the centralAndes, the majority vaguely peo-pling South America with savages. It istrue that in the Amazon and the Orinocobasins, and in other isolated sections, ab-solute savages roam unacquainted withcivilized man; but the entire coast coun-try, and many miles inland, furnish a va-riety of interesting sights which well re-pay the long and at times inconvenientjourney. The first thought of the South Americantraveler should be of the prehistoric peo-ples that have left cyclopean ruins in analmost continuous line from Colombia toBolivia. The present inhabitants are amongrel product of various bloods, andinteresting merely as a study of degener-ative changes following indiscriminate ra-cial mixing. Exception must be made,however, to large r

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