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Title: Three Vassar girls in South America : a holiday trip of three college girls through the southern continent, up the Amazon, down the Madeira, across the Andes, and up the Pacific coast to Panama
Year: 1885 (1880s)
Authors: Champney, Elizabeth W. (Elizabeth Williams), 1850-1922
Subjects: South America -- Description and travel Amazon River -- Description and travel Peru -- Description and travel
Publisher: Boston : Estes and Lauriat
Contributing Library: University Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Digitizing Sponsor: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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lingeredfor several days. These hammocks arc made by the Indian women,not of grasses, like the ones sent to us, but of cotton, the main partclosely woven in the shape of a square, six feet across. Sometimes,by the use of a dyed thread, a simple, decorative pattern was intro-duced. The cotton the women used was of their own raisinij and
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OLD CRONE SPINNING. NEAR TO NATURES HEART. 79 preparation. The girls were struck by the odd sounds issuing- iVonithe iiouses, as of cliildren beating upon drums, but ascertained, onvisiting the dwellings, that these sounds were caused b\ tiie lightpalm wands deftly handled b\- the Indian girls as tliey beat the cottonto fleecy lightness. Maud made a sketch of an old crone spinning at a clumsy, aborigi-nal wheel. She was busy ever3where during their brief stay, and allwere interested in this primitive, wild life. The Indians were gentleand hospitable, not at all reminding them of the female warriors Iromwhom the mighty river was named. Delight whispered slyl)^ to Victoria, as they marked the simplicityand poverty of the household furnishing, This is certainly living^ near to Natures heart, but does it strike you, dear, that )ou wcnildgreatly enjoy it? No, Victoria hardlv thought she would: but INIaud, with an artistsinstinct, seemed to get at the spirit of it all. She made friends with

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