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Title: Exploration of the valley of the Amazon
Year: 1853 (1850s)
Authors: Herndon, William Lewis, 1813-1857 United States. Navy Dept Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862 Mann, Horace, 1796-1859 Gibbon, Lardner
Subjects: Amazon River Valley -- Description and travel Brazil -- Description and travel Peru -- Description and travel Bolivia -- Description and travel America -- Discovery and exploration
Publisher: Washington, R. Armstrong (etc.) Public Printer
Contributing Library: Brown University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brown University

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invited us to join them; some looked verythin and sickly; an old woman was groaning on her bed at the door;a boy close by her had some horrible disease breaking out on his face;he was deformed and looked like a person on the edge of the grave, butamused himself by playing in the dust; his ghastly stare made us fearhe had some infectious disorder. On the other side was a woman shav-ing a boys head—the shape of a mules more than that of a humanbeing. An enclosure, containing a patch of cabbages, was found neara stream of cold water, which flowed rapidly from the snow peaks insight, through an expensive aqueduct, supported on pillars of stone,neatly white-washed, leading to a sugar plantation some distance belowus, on the east side of the Apurimac. We encamped here withoutpermission of the owner, who was absent. While our mules were feed-ing and we enjoying our supper, a woman came in, and in a hurried andexcited tone of voice, addressed me in Quichua. Our difiiculty was ■*i!(* fsf^
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l.iK. f)f PS Diivsia-Co Ph, APUnilVIAC BRIDGf., jnu BULL FIGHT. 39 witli a Peruvian widow, very good-looking, but wlio talked at a terriblerate. Jose concealed himself behind a peach-tree full of blossoms, pre-paring tea. She said she was poor, but had sons full grown, and thatwe had taken her garden fence down, and turned eight mules amongher cabbages. Jose told her, when we arrived, tired, after a long march,she was not at home to give consent; her grounds had particularly-pleased us, and we had taken the liberty to enter them for the night;in the morning the fence should be repaired to her satisfaction, andmoney paid for the use of her grounds; the arrieros mules should goout, and ours be fastened and fed close to the tent, which was not amongthe plants, but at a proper distance on our side. She, smiling, accepteda cup of tea, and they spent the evening sociably together, in the clearmoonlight, with no sand-flies, and a westerly wind. Cabbage, salad, onions, and garlic transplanted

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