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Title: The polar and tropical worlds : a description of man and nature in the polar and equatorial regions of the globe
Year: 1874 (1870s)
Authors: Hartwig, G. (Georg), 1813-1880 Guernsey, Alfred Hudson, 1824-1902
Subjects: Arctic peoples Natural history Antarctica Arctic regions Tropics
Publisher: Guelph, Ont. : J.W. Lyon
Contributing Library: Gerstein - University of Toronto
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oor of his hut, is the only bedof the Indian from one years end to the other. It is always filthy, and frequentlyfull of vermin. Before going to bed we went out into the frosty, starry night, andwere surprised to sec fires blazing on the topmost peaks of the island, on the crest ofCoati, and on the headland of Copobanca. Others, many of them hardly discerniblein the distance, were also burning on the peninsula of Tiquina, and on the bluffBolivian shores of the lake, their red light shimmering like golden lances over thewater. Our first impression was that some mysterious signalling was going on, con- 488 THE TROPICAL WORLD. nectccl perhaps with our visit. We ascertained, however, that tliis was the Eve of St.John, which is eolobrated in this way throughout the Sierra. On that night firesblaze on the hill-tops in all the inhabited districts of Peru and Bolivia, from the desertof Atacanui to the Equator. Thus have the rites of Christianity superseded the oldworship of tho Incas. i^^Ji-4
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fOONTAIN OF TUE INCAS. The Fountain of the Incas is situated in a sheltered nook, surrounded with terracesupon which grow patches of maize with ears not longer than ones finger. The bathitself is a pool forty feet long, ten wide, and five deep, built of worked stones. Intothis pour four jets of water, as large as a mans arm, from openings cut in the stonesbehind. The water comes through subterranean passages from sources now un-known, and never diminishes in volume. It flows to-day as freely as when the Incasresorted here and cut the steep hill-sides into terraces, bringing the earth all the wayfrom the Valley of Yucay, or Vale of Imperial Delights, four hundred milesdistant. Over the walls droop the tendrils of vines; and what with the odors andthe tinkle and patter of the water, one might imagine himself in the court of thoAUiambra. Besides the .<5acred island of Titicaca, there are eight smaller ones in the lake. Sotowas the Isle of Penitence, wliere tho Incas were wont to resor

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